Planning the Content Lifecycle

SharePoint is a powerful content creation platform. Creating sites, documents and other content items is as simple as using a web browser. As a result, many SharePoint installations become clogged with massive amounts of obsolete, unused and contradictory information. To avoid this situation, a good SharePoint governance plan should include processes for managing the entire content lifecycle (see Figure 6-8).

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Figure 6-8. The content lifecycle

Content in the farm will generally go through a series of lifecycle phases. The content is initially created and published to a site on the farm. Over time, it is read and ...

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