SharePoint Records management
Alfred de Weerd
Alfred de Weerd
Principal IT Architect
Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)
SharePoint consultant & architect since 2006
Author of SharePoint Records Management and Metadata
Website & blog
Business drivers
Accountability
Cultural Heritage
Guaranteeing operational continuity
Comply with legislation
Record: information created, received and maintained
as evidence and information by an organization or
person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the
transaction of business
Many different life cycles
Records continuum
No sharp distincion between document and record
phases
Multipe angles to view records world
Created in the 1990s by Frank Upward.
Very recent considering records management is a
science that exists at least 6000 years
Blends very well with SharePoint capabilities
Records continuum
Aspect Records lifecycle Records continuum
Origin Paper environment Digital environment
Starting points Focus on (physical) records
Product-driven
Focus on targets
Process and customer-driven
Status movements
of records
Time-based: records have sequential
terms, which they go through in
succession until they are permanently
destroyed or transferred to an archive
Simultaneity: record processes
can occur at any point
(place/time) in the existence
of the record and even before
that
Records
management
process
There are distinct stages with sharp
distinctions between document
management, records management and
archive
Document management,
records management and
archive are integrated
Role of the records
management
professional
Passive and reactive Proactive
SharePoint application functions
Document
management
Records
management
Collaboration
Vision
Policy
 Business objectives
 Proactively offering access
 Fair and equal access
 Positioning of RM relative to DM
 RM Governance & BCM
 Vision
 Management responsibilities
 Relation to DM and security policies
 (References to) Retention schedule
 (References to) processes
 (References to) rules
Retention
schedule
Prepare
&
Plan
 How complex do you need to be?
 How complex do you WANT to be?
 Options:
 Other platform
 Tools
 Custom solution
 Simplify
B SP
Implementation
Requirements
&
Design
 Metadata
 Procedures & Standards
 Requirementsstrategiesdesign
 Working demo
 Learning curve of organization
 Leave behind paper thinking
B SP
Check
&
Correct
Training
 Auditing: design for fault proof
 Compliancy & evidence
 Internal & external
 SharePoint auditingmonitoring
 Why what how
 Crucial for success
 Motivation of users
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SharePoint
Records
Management
Design
A-Works
Team site
Knowledge
library
Records Center
Case from the book
Content Type Hub
Records CenterKnowledge libraryTeamsite
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
ACTH
Manual
Subscribe
Publish
Send To
Records Center
Knowledge libraryTeamsite
Document
Library
Document
Library
Drop Off Library
Document
Library
Document
Library
Engineers Legal affairsExperts
Business Site Collection Records Center
Overview of configuration steps
Demo
• Create CT in CTH and add retention policy
• Only three events Actions
• Publish content type from CTH
• Create records center
• Configure drop off library
• Configuring send to locations
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Keeping your
documents
together
Document set
Folder
Metadata
No in place RM
Can be routed by
rules
No rule based
folders
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See at Amazon
The Last One
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SharePoint records management in depth