Document Management in SharePoint 2010

At the core of the SharePoint 2010 platform, SharePoint provides document libraries for storage of documents. This feature addresses an immediate need to prevent emailing of multiple copies of a document under construction. Instead, users can email a link to the most recent document in a SharePoint site.

Beyond SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server 2010 offers many more features in the document management suite. The best way to get started exploring these features is to create a new site collection with the Document Center features installed, as in the following steps:

1. Open Central Admin.

2. If you need to create a new IIS web application, see Chapter 2 for instructions.

3. Click the Application Management ...

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