SharePoint 2010 Records Management

The records centre in SharePoint 2007 was always a bit of a first step in records management for SharePoint as far as I was concerned.

The limitations still outweighed the benefits and we were constantly looking to other products to supplement the features of SharePoint as a product set.

Now with SharePoint 2010 there is a whole new set of features that makes the management of records in SharePoint exciting and easy to deploy.

Administrators can now put in place the “in place” records practice so that content is still kept in context of the collaboration space. Or if required the document can be shipped to an other repository and a stub left in place in the collaboration location to still allow users to access the document as required.

Just these features are a significant improvement from the 2007 way of how things worked.

The big lever to assist in the records management area is the use of an Enterprise Metadata Management (EMM) service. This service allows administrators to define enterprise content types and enterprise metadata and through the sue of these and content organisers and content rules define the necessary record keeping tools to make the creation and disposition of records in SharePoint easy and painless to the end user.

Go Microsoft is what i can say from the look that I have been able to glean from the SPC sessions that I have been to.