Microsoft Records Management Team Blog

[Cross-posted from the SharePoint Team Blog .] Back in May of last year, we announced that MOSS 2007 had passed the U.S. government's DoD 5015.2 certification. Now, all of the work that was done to achieve that important milestone has been packaged...

We are taking a break from posting on this site because all of the topics that we had wanted to blog about have now been posted. Moreover, Records Management (RM) is a feature area that is part of SharePoint Server’s larger set of Enterprise Content Management...

Greetings, everyone! In this post, we are going to conclude our discussion of e-mail records management by talking about some of the other policies that can apply to Microsoft Exchange 2007’s managed folders. If you haven’t read the previous posts on...

In my previous post , I described how organizations can define a set of e-mail classifications (i.e. managed folders) and how end users can use those folders to classify content. In this post, I’ll describe one of the main uses of this classification...

In the previous post , we covered the basics of what’s involved in e-mail records management and why it’s important. Now it’s time to get into some of the details of our approach to the e-mail records management problem. In this post, I’m going to discuss...

Happy New Year, everyone! We’ll return to our talk on email records management later this week, but I wanted to point you to a recent AIIM survey on records management and compliance. Over 800 organizations answered questions about their records management...

Hi everyone! Now that Vista, Exchange, and the Office System are available to businesses, we thought we’d switch gears on this blog. So far, the blog has focused on the records management capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. However...

Hi everyone, I wanted to point you to an excellent whitepaper that discusses compliance across the entire 2007 Microsoft Office System. Rather than talk about specific certifications Microsoft is pursuing (like DoD 5015.2 ), the paper explains the...

We want to make sure everyone has heard that we’ve completed work on the 2007 release of the Microsoft Office System, including all of the Records Management features we’ve been talking about on this blog! (Below are a few links to press articles about...

Hi everyone! My name is Adam Harmetz and I work on the Records Management team here in Redmond. I met many of you at the ARMA conference a couple weeks ago. I had a great time there demoing Office SharePoint Server 2007 and getting feedback from everyone...

There are many challenges in getting an RM department and an IT department to work together: cultural issues, procedural issues, and more. But one of the first challenges for working with IT is simply acquiring RM software -- in many organizations, hardware...

This might seem a bit off-topic, but we just had to share some photos of our team's Halloween costume this year. Every year at Microsoft, many employees and teams dress up for Halloween and welcome trick-or-treaters to the Microsoft campus. This year...

As part of the outreach activities for ARMA 2006, several conference speakers & participants recorded podcasts about topics of interest for Records Managers. (Kudos to the ARMA conference organizers for this effort – this is a really innovative way...

What a week! Most of the Records Management team is now back in Redmond from the ARMA International Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and I want to talk a bit about the event for the benefit of everyone who wasn’t able to attend. First and foremost...

As I “teased” in my last post , this week at the ARMA Conference Microsoft and Iron Mountain unveiled a new collaboration to enable both companies to better help organizations deal with their records management challenges. ( The press release can be found...

I owe everyone an apology… Getting ready for the ARMA International conference this week (I’m writing this post in the Expo hall here in San Antonio) and working through the last few weeks of getting the 2007 Office system ready to release didn’t leave...

So far in this blog, we’ve talked directly about electronic records – the files created in document authoring applications, e-mail systems, etc. But few records managers out there (if any) have the luxury of dealing solely with electronic records… for...

In some of our first posts , we talked about the high costs of litigation & discovery. And our customer research wasn’t the only motivation for addressing this particular problem– it turns out that Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs (LCA) department...

Thanks to everyone who posted questions about the Records Center or sent them in via the “contact” form. (It’s great to receive such detailed questions – it shows how many people are really interested in the records management capabilities of the next...

Now that we’ve covered how records are declared from collaboration SharePoint sites, in this post we’re going to start exploring the “Records Center” site template provided in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for collecting & managing records...

Just a quick note to let you all know that Microsoft will be the technology sponsor of the 2006 ARMA International conference in San Antonio, TX, for both the main conference and the Electronic RM preconference. Several members of the Records Management...

Finally! After much patience on the part of this community, we can now talk about the next big area of our records management capabilities in the 2007 release – record declaration, classification, and the “Records Center” site. But before moving forward...

Hello, everyone. My name is Rob Silver. I’m a technical writer working on content supporting the records management features and scenarios that Tina, Ethan, and Jason have been discussing with you in this blog. As I’ve learned about the needs of records...

Before moving on to our next topic of record declaration & classification (which I know that many of you are anxiously waiting to hear about), this week’s posting discusses the last two features in the Information Management Policy framework of the...

I hope that the last few posts on various aspects of the "business side" of records management have been of value to everyone. In the next few posts, we're going to get back to introducing you to the Records Management features of Office SharePoint Server...