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Creating a Record Center

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Creating a Record Center

In SharePoint if you want something created as a records repository, meaning there's one central location where you can formally control all the things that you consider corporate records, well the site template you can use is called the Records Center. Now this can only be created as the top -level site in a new site collection, which is what I've already done with this one. And while technically you can create several, you typically only make one. And this acts as the Record Center for the entire SharePoint farm. The idea of a record of course is that there's a great deal of formality over its lifetime. We keep the records. We track the records. We have much tighter control over things considered records than we do just regular documents. Of course, it's your decision what a record actually means for you. Is it financial? Is it intellectual property? Is it it all of the above? When you create a Records Center, it's not necessarily obvious on the homepage what you're meant to do with…

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