SharePoint 2010 Records Center Greatly Improved

So far I am very impressed with the new Records Center site definition and architecture of SharePoint 2010.  Some of the new features include:

  • New and informative page for administering the Records Center (allows newbies to work with the record center easily)
  • Routing Rules based on submitted record properties (not just the content type anymore) – COOL
  • Routing to a different site (not just on the Records center site only anymore) – NICE
  • Routing Priority (allows for more complex routing scenarios)
  • Retention expiration can be based off of the typcial fields (ModifyDate, CreateDate) and a new one called "Declared Record" (when it was defined as a record)
  • On Expiration has the following actions:
    • Move to Recycle Bin
    • Permanently Delete
    • Transfer to Another Location
    • Start a workflow
    • Skip to Next Stage
    • delete Previous drafts
    • Delete all previous versions

At a farm level you can:

  • Configure Send To Connections by Web Application (versus Farm in 2007)
  • Allow multiple send to Connections
  • Three options on "Send" event (Copy, Move, Move and leave link)
  • On submission, the final "resting" place is returned for the item

Nice changes!
Chris