SharePoint Records Management Certified

Combined with a free add-on, the SharePoint Server 2007 corporate portal and enterprise content management platform has been certified to comply with an important U.S. Department of Defense standard for records-management applications. This certification closes a gap in SharePoint’s records-management features and could attract the many U.S. government agencies and other organizations that adhere to the standard. The add-on was developed by Microsoft and partner Applied Information Sciences (AIS) and will be available to customers later in 2007. However, the company has not yet provided documentation or a precise ship date for the add-on.

Records Management in SharePoint 2007

With the release of SharePoint Server 2007 in Nov. 2006, Microsoft’s corporate portal platform gained features for records management, which focuses on the storage, retention, and destruction of corporate records for legal, regulatory, or strategic reasons. A special SharePoint site, called the Records Center, provides tools and services to help organizations set up and customize record repositories and configure and automate many aspects of records-management processes. For example, records managers can 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 periods) by which records are managed.