Just as any other SharePoint site, record center functionality comes with a site template with a set of features which facilitate various document and record management scenarios. Typically, in an organization implementing record and document management features, the configuration involved with how records are stored is sensitive. After all, if important electronic records, which are trusted to reside in a safe record center environment, are lost, the organization may find itself vulnerable to regulations.
PowerShell provides an excellent solution allowing record center configuration to be scripted as a replicable and traceable set of commands to which you can always go back to. If your organization uses record routing rules based on metadata, as we'll see further, you can manage to create many of the rules quickly just by scripting them with PowerShell.
Let's take a look at what's involved in using PowerShell to script some of...