I’ve stumbled across an interesting bug while trying to create a template for a Record Library in SharePoint 2010 and I couldn’t find it mentioned anywhere online.  This might be because it’s fairly obscure, but I thought it couldn’t hurt for me to throw it out there.  If you create a Record Library (or a [...]

I’ve stumbled across an interesting bug while trying to create a template for a Record Library in SharePoint 2010 and I couldn’t find it mentioned anywhere online.  This might be because it’s fairly obscure, but I thought it couldn’t hurt for me to throw it out there.  If you create a Record Library (or a [...]

So I’ve run into an interesting issue with setting up Records Libraries in SharePoint 2010 and I thought I would pass it along.  I would think that I could create a Records Center anywhere in a SharePoint 2010 site collection and create Records Libraries within the new Records Center without any difficulty.  And I would [...]

I recently completed the AIIM SharePoint Specialist Certificate online training and examination.  (This course is the next level up after the AIIM SharePoint Practitioner Certificate program I told you about in this previous post.)    As with the Practitioner course, I thought the Specialist course provided some excellent instruction on managing enterprise content and records [...]

This blog has always been focused on providing a fundamental understanding of managing records and information in a SharePoint environment, so I don’t typically like to get too deep into the technical aspects of SharePoint very often.  (And besides, isn’t that why you pay your System Administrators and SharePoint developers the mega-bucks?) However, the new [...]

It recently occurred to me that there seems to be some level of confusion around how a few fundamental SharePoint records management terms are defined.  This confusion may very well cause people challenges when trying to understand how SharePoint manages records and information.  With that in mind, I’ve compiled a short list of terms I [...]

This month marks the end of our second year of providing a ridiculous amount of information about an extremely narrow subject to a very limited number of people – making us unquestionably the number one island-themed SharePoint Records and Information Management blog on the internet.  We just want to take a brief moment to wish ourselves [...]

Mike Alsup has been a recognized thought leader in the ECM/RM field since before it was actually considered a ‘field’.  Over the years, Mike (and the companies he has founded) did some groundbreaking consulting work with virtually all of the major content management applications on the market.  Like most industry visionaries, Mike recognizes the significant impact SharePoint [...]