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Managing documents and records

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Managing documents and records

There's a few words that get used so much in SharePoint that when you hear them you have to pause for a minute and think, what exactly are we talking about here? Publishing is one of those words. There's the Publishing feature, Publishing Portal, publishing site, and document is another one of those words. We have documents in SharePoint. We have document libraries, Document Workspaces, document sets. There's something called a Document Center, and the idea of document management. Now, surely, we've been doing this already. I mean, if we have versioning turned on and check-in/checkout required and workflow, surely we're doing some kind of document management. Of course, yes, we are, but we can take it even deeper than that. First, we can describe the kinds of documents that we have, so that instead of working with a generic document, we work with a resume or a software specification or a business plan. To know what type of content that we have is called a content type. If you work…

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