SharePoint record management features facilitate a variety of document management scenarios far beyond traditional records management. Using some of the features in the SharePoint 2010 record center site template, you can store documents and manage their retention and lifecycle based on a variety of metadata driven workflows. In this chapter, we'll take a look at how you can provision a record center site and configure some of its most popular features.
Since each record routed to a record center can be passed through a set of rules before directed to a final destination library, it's important to understand how you can create your own routing rules. In this chapter, we'll see how you can use PowerShell to quickly create the most common metadata-driven routing rules and without a significant downtime while deploying.
Once in the record center, each document is likely to go through the retention lifecycle. In this chapter, we'll see how you can create some of the most common retention...