This is the 2nd post of a three blog series we’re running on SharePoint Governance. If you missed our first post, Governance is the set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that you put in place to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint. For this post, we are going to delve into policies. Don’t go running off just yet! We know policies can get to be headaches, especially if it requires pages and pages of reading. But SharePoint policies are essential in a successful deployment of SharePoint....

Anxiety around creating SharePoint sites is often times related to control and not having enough of it. You give your team access to the sites and documents it houses, but how can you manage what those people change on your site? In SharePoint 2010, you can manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you’re dealing with traditional content, web content, or social content. Here are three ways SharePoint 2010 places compliance everywhere to ensure your company’s...