Barry Jinks is Founder and CEO of Colligo, a leading provider of client software solutions for extending SharePoint collaboration and content management functionality.  Colligo is based out of one of our favorite cities in the world, beautiful Vancouver, B.C., Canada.  Barry was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule and [...]

I realize this is late notice, but I wanted to mention a free web presentation next week that should prove worth seeing: Realizing True Records Management with SharePoint 2010.  It’s hosted by KnowledgeLake and the panel will include Latasha Battle, Microsoft SharePoint Product Manager for ECM, Corro’ll Driskell, KnowledgeLake records management guru, and our friend Brad [...]

Without question, one of the most important new SharePoint 2010 features is ‘managed metadata’.  This is certainly true for SharePoint-based Records Management, but also true for Enterprise Content Management, Information Lifecycle Management and search optimization, as well.  Microsoft defines managed metadata as ‘a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define and then [...]

In MOSS 07 documents were routed to the Records Center and classified in the file plan based on the document’s Content Type.  This worked fine if retention and disposition of your records was managed purely by the type of document being declared.  As Records Managers, we know this is rarely the case in the real [...]

Early last year when I created my SharePoint 2010 Records Management Wishlist, one of the first items I included on the list was a unique and persistent records identifier.  MOSS 07 used a document’s URL as its identifier, but this proved not only unwieldy (it was typically an enormous string of incomprehensible characters), it was [...]

I just wanted to provide a quick view of the new SharePoint 2010 Records Center for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.  The first thing you will notice is how Microsoft has changed the appearance of the site to set it further apart from other SharePoint site templates and give it the look and feel [...]

Microsoft is promoting the new Records In Place functionality in SharePoint 2010 pretty heavily – and they should.  The ability to manage records in the locations they are originally created is a tremendously powerful new feature that can help enable true enterprise-wide records management.  Look here for more on Records In Place in the future. [...]

If you are going to AIIM 2010 in Philadelphia this week, be sure to drop by the Microsoft booth.  There will be a number of Product Managers and SharePoint development gurus there who would love to hear from you.  Here’s a link to their conference information.  Here, too. Commitments to customers back home prevent me [...]

In December of last year we spoke with Adam Harmetz, the Lead Program Manager for the SharePoint Document and Records Management engineering team at Microsoft, about some of the new records management features coming out in SharePoint 2010.  Response to that post has been overwhelming.  Adam has graciously agreed to sit down with us one [...]

In case you missed it, Microsoft has announced an official SharePoint 2010 release date.  It’s set for May 12th.  You can find the announcement here.  There’s also a link if you want to sign up for the official launch event (because you just have nothing better to do that day  ). Also worth checking out [...]