Microsoft® SharePoint 2010: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Chapter 12. Records Management

• Information Management Policies

• In Place Records Management

• The Records Center

Organizations will always be faced with the responsibility of handling and maintaining permanent records. When those records were physical files, the possibilities of management were rather limited and easy to document. Information management policies could be defined based on labeling rules for the physical files. Retrieval of those records was quite cumbersome and potentially required the manual handling of all records to search for a specific record.

With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the handling and maintenance of records is far more flexible and can adhere to any level of complexity in information management policies. At the same ...