This section describes key content stored in each of the platform data stores.

Backup Frequency: every 24 hours

Contents:

• Provisioning Engine server names and states (active/inactive)
  
• Provisioning Engine client list and latest transaction (last time at which client connected to server)
  
• Transaction log server names and last time transaction data was flushed to log
  
• Audit log server names
  
• Named procedures, their calling relationship tree and associated ACLs
  
• Site information for the provisioning system
  
• Queue manager server names
  
• 'Execute As' credentials
  

Backup Frequency: every 24 hours (depends on provisioning activity)

Contents:

• Logged requests to the MPF service. For each request:
  
  • Credentials, if provided
    
  • Steps:
    
    • Rollback data
      
    • Status
      
    • Timestamp
      

Backup Frequency: every 24 hours

Contents:

• Logged requests to the MPF service. For each request:
  
  • Credentials, if provided
    
  • Steps:
    
    • Status
      
    • Last running time
      

Backup Frequency: every hour (schedule at same time as Plans Database)

Note:
Backups of the Resource Manager database must be synchronized with backups of the Plans database. These two databases together act as a single data storage component and must therefore be backed up and restored as a pair.

Contents:

• Available resource types in the environment
  
  • Disk space
    
  • Mailbox size
    
  • IIS site data
    
• Available resources (instantiations of the above types) for example:
  
  • Disk space available to server GUID
    
  • Resource consumer instance (GUID for resource, GUID for consumer)
    

Backup Frequency: every hour (schedule at same time as Resource Manager Database)

Note:
Backups of the Plans database must be synchronized with backups of the Resource Manager database. These two databases together act as a single data storage component and must therefore be backed up and restored as a pair.

Contents:

• Feature types:
  
  • Web site
    
  • Mailbox
    
  • Disk Space
    
  • Mailbox Size
    
• Plans (Instantiations of feature types)
  
  • Web sites
    
  • Mailboxes
    
  • Disk space
    
• Subscriptions
  
  • Organization Plan
    
    • User Plan (sub-features from among those offered by Organizational level plan)
      
    • Demographic/Geographic organization data
      
    • Organization configuration data (SMTP domain, mailbox server)
      

Backup Frequency: every 24 hours (synchronize with

Contents:

• Organizations (cross-linked to GUIDs in Resource Manager and Plans databases)
  
  • Users (cross-linked to GUIDs in Resource Manager and Plans databases)
    
  • Service Pointers
    
    • IIS server path
      
    • Mailbox server
      
    • Customer Directory Integration (CDI) data
      
    • SharePoint sites
      
    • DNS zones
      
  • Mailbox stores (GUID and name cross-linked to resource Manager and Plans databases)
    
  • Public Folders (GUID and name cross-linked to resource Manager and Plans databases)
    
  • Offline Address Books (GUID of organization cross-linked to Resource Manager database)
    
  • Address lists (DN is stored against the owner organization)
    
  • Customized Exchange permissions
    

Backup Frequency: every 24 hours

Contents: Performance Monitor counters (events for all computers in the environment)

Backup Frequency: every 24 hours

Contents:

• A warehouse of all the information in the Plans database
  
• Statistical information (used for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with SP1 reporting services reporting)
  
  • Current mailbox sizes
    
  • Mailbox count
    
  • Current SharePoint space consumption