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XML Standards in Government

Last month has also featured one of the important national government events for Open Document Standards, namely: XML Standards in Government Workshop ( http://www.dst.gov.za/invite/ ) South African Department of Science and Technology have organised this workshop on June 17 th to 20 th 2008 at Tshwane University. “The purpose of the workshop is to consolidate (and indeed celebrate!) the work done to date on the adoption of XML standards in the public sector and to prepare the strategic direction...
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Doing Records Management in SharePoint 2007 Part 3 (Sending Content from SharePoint Server 2007 to the Records Repository site)

So now you have to declare your electronic document as records and send them to your Records Repository. What to do now? Well let's configure the Connection to Records Repository setting first. 1. Go to the Central Administration site from the Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. 2. Click Application Management. 3. On the Application Management page, in the External Service Connections section, click Records repository...

Doing Records Management in SharePoint 2007 Part 2 (Creating a Records Repository and Configuring the Retention Schedules)

Continuing from my last post, this where we venture into the world cool yet strict world of Records Management in SharePoint 2007. The following describes common steps that you would need to take to set up the Records Repository. Remember, we’re using typical SA government example for setting up the File Plan, hence why it would differ in some ways from Virtual Lab example on doing Records Management from Microsoft (MSDN Virtual Lab http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID...

Doing Records Management in SharePoint 2007 Part 1 (Intro)

This is a three part post that will show how to deploy and configure Records Management Solutions in SharePoint 2007. Records Management can be tricky business. Most businesses and corporates do it (manually) but they don't call it that way and it takes a while for them to make a connection when you try to explain what Records Management as part of their elaborative Enterprise Content Management suite actually is, and even if they make a connection, the mere notion of making this process electronic...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got a message about this from Arno early this morning. Well for some of us it means that answering some recent RFPs would be alot easier than expected (let's say it came right on time). Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

MOSS 2007 Records Management DoD Certification

Some of you, who’s main obstruction to deploying MOSS 2007 Records Management solutions (especially to the Government) was lack of required certifications (not mentioning the maturity of the product) especially the big DoD certification, might remember early announcement that Microsoft is slotted to take the DoD 5015.2 certification test on May 14, 2007 . Well its seven days and counting now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not really against using third party products to complement SharePoint solutions...