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Defining information management policy - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Defining information management policy
Now although SharePoint's document libraries do keep track of some information about what happens to a document such as who it was modified by and what date it was last modified, that's usually not enough for a major corporation. We need a little bit more information than that. You can do that by defining wants called information management policy, which is a fairly complex phrase for something that's really not that bad to set up. I can do this on an individual library. I am actually going to go my library settings and I have got a section here called Information Management Policy Settings. Clicking that will take us to this page that will tell us a bit of information about retention, schedule, and content type policies. We really have no policies at all on this. The idea is we can define different rules on documents or folders or any other content type you would define on this library. I am going to select Document, and after this, what I really get is an administrative description,…