Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

12.1. Creating a Records Management System to Archive Your Documents

Increasingly, today's organizations spend more time managing records than they did just a few years ago. Regardless of whether the reason for retaining more records comes from the fear of litigation or the need to meet new government requirements, more records are retained than ever before and must be managed so that they can be easily retrieved when needed. To meet this need, MOSS 2007 adds a Records Center template to the list of Enterprise sites. You might argue that even the basic SharePoint features already serve as a central repository for records by providing departments and management with a single place to create, process, and store data. SharePoint's collaboration ...