A prebuilt SharePoint Server 2007 site called the Records Center serves as a “vault” for an organization’s electronic records. Compliance workers called records managers use the Records Center to specify the types and properties of documents that will be managed as records, create the repositories that will store those records, and configure the policies (such as retention and expiration) by which records are managed.

The Records Center in the illustration contains three repositories configured to store an organization’s specifications, financial reports, and contracts, which are created respectively by the organization’s research and development (R&D), accounting, and business development teams on separate Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 team collaboration sites. (The Record Center’s repositories are standard WSS 3.0 document libraries.) Workers submit documents to the Records Center from other SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 document libraries without having to navigate to the Records Center, find the appropriate library, and manually check in documents.

A prebuilt SharePoint Portal Server 2007 site called the Records Center serves as a “vault” for an organization’s electronic records. Compliance workers called records managers use the Records Center to specify the types and properties of documents that will be managed as records, create the repositories that will store those records, and configure the policies (such as retention and expiration) by which records are managed.

The Records Center in the illustration contains three repositories configured to store an organization’s specifications, financial reports, and contracts, which are created respectively by the organization’s research and development, accounting, and business development teams on separate Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 team collaboration sites. (The Record Center’s repositories are standard WSS 3.0 document libraries.) Workers submit documents to the Records Center from other SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 document libraries without having to explicitly navigate to the Records Center, find the appropriate library, and manually check in documents.