Landru – Master Programmer
Human Beings, like all mammals and most living organisms exhibit one distinctive trait – bilateral symmetry. You know – 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 arms, 2 legs, and so on. But lets consider for a moment the human brain, which has 2 distinct hemispheres. As it turns out, both are necessary for [...]
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Records Management, Bilateral Symmetry, and the Survival of the Human Race
Stupid SharePoint Tricks #1–The Content Organizer Timer Job
So, you’ve setup your content organizer with the appropriate rules and they are working. – check.
You’ve added the appropriate users to the “Rule Managers” group so they will be reminded via email whenever the content organizer starts filling up. – check
You’ve configured the Content Organizer Settings to set the limit so that document metadata has [...]
ARMA Records Management Training
The folks at ARMA International have introduced an interesting new Records Management Certification program for SharePoint. It is delivered in person by Bruce Miller (RIMTech), who is a world-class expert on electronic record keeping. Bruce’s Managing Records in SharePoint 2010 book, also published by ARMA, is included in the two-day course, which takes you [...]
Building SharePoint-Friendly File Plans using InfoPath 2010
Configuring a SharePoint 2010 records center site involves many steps that must be properly orchestrated in order to achieve the desired results.
As an example, most records management solutions use content organizer rules to route incoming records to a particular document library or folder so they can be associated with specific information policies and retention schedules. [...]
Obama Orders Agencies to Improve Records Management Policies
Looks like things are heating up in the government sector around ECM/RM. Should make for an interesting first quarter.
Reposted from Federal Times…
Agencies must deliver plans for modernizing their records management policies by late March, President Obama said in a Monday memorandum.
The memo urges officials to digitize records whenever possible but notes that greater use of [...]
Searching for In-Place Records using CAML
Just a quick note to all you records management junkies out there. Here’s a question I’m seeing a lot of. “Can I write a CAML query to locate all of the documents that have been declared as in-place records?”
The answer is yes. It’s actually quite simple. There is a new field called “Declared Record” that [...]
GimmalSoft Achieves (DoD) 5015.2 Certification
After a long and arduous process, the GimmalSoft Compliance Suite has finally received the coveted Department of Defense 5015.02 certification, making it the only certified RMS built on the SharePoint 2010 platform. What does this mean for the rest of us?
Well, for one thing, it means that companies will no longer have to purchase multiple [...]
Unregistering Custom Record Declaration Handlers
As you know, using the SharePoint 2010 server object model, you can install your own custom record declaration handlers. Didn’t know that? Oh? You mean you haven’t already setup your site to keep track of every time a record is declared or undeclared? Well, you’re in for a treat! But you’ll have a wait a [...]
European Best Practices Conference = Great!
Well, I’m back from a truly wonderful week in London attending and speaking at the European Best Practices Conference, and I have to say, there is something special about this show. I had the privilege of speaking 2 years ago, and I was impressed then by the quality of the event. But it has [...]
Upcoming SharePoint Conference Dates
Conference season is starting to heat up again. First up is the SharePoint Connections conference in Orlando, March 27-29. I’ll be giving three talks:
I’ll also be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Best Practices conference in London, April 11-13. I had the distinct privilege of speaking at the London conference a couple of years back and [...]
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