#ISCLondon – Building and Using SharePoint Friendly File Plans

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Records Management

1. What is a File Plan?

  • Document Types (functional, less formal than Content Types)
  • Retention Periods
  • Retention Actions
  • Role Assignments

Can be a plain List in NotePad, Visio, Excel or InfoPath

Goals
#1 File Plan Goal: Retention
#2 File Plan Goal: Classification

Challenges
#1 File Plan Challenges: Size

2. Automation

  1. Build plan in InfoPath -> nice interface, DataSet in xml
  2. Store plan in SharePoint -> central location, versioning
  3. Use Workflows for approval -> automation

Provisioning
– automatically create Web Application
– automatically create Records Center Site(s)

Configuration
– automatically configure existing Records Center
– automatically create Content Types, Libraries and Folders

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