Early last year when I created my SharePoint 2010 Records Management Wishlist, one of the first items I included on the list was a unique and persistent records identifier. MOSS 07 used a document’s URL as its identifier, but this proved not only unwieldy (it was typically an enormous string of incomprehensible characters), it was [...]
Microsoft is promoting the new Records In Place functionality in SharePoint 2010 pretty heavily – and they should. The ability to manage records in the locations they are originally created is a tremendously powerful new feature that can help enable true enterprise-wide records management. Look here for more on Records In Place in the future. [...]