Chapter 5. Leveraging enterprise content management features

 

This chapter covers

  • Content types
  • Information management policy
  • Retention schedules

This chapter will guide you through the process of configuring a site for meeting the requirements of corporate records management policies. Records management is important to corporations that might be audited. If auditing is a concern, these companies need to secure and store all pertinent data that would be considered records. But content management features can also be used for other purposes, such as clearing out the junk! So let’s start clearing it out. First, we’ll discuss some of the technology that you’re going to use to build out our scenario.

5.1. Managing business proposal resources

This section covers three areas: situation, business priorities, and solution. The first area, situation, provides a detailed explanation of the request that you’ve received. The next area, business priorities, extracts a list of requirements based on priority to accomplish your goals. It’s important when gathering information such as this to not mix technology with the requirements. Business process, not technology, should drive the requirements. The third area gives you an overview of the solution that we’ll spend the rest of the chapter walking through and building.

5.1.1. Situation

5.2. SharePoint Foundation features

5.3. SharePoint Server features

5.4. Summary