Actually, MOSS 2007 - which was released last November - required no customization to meet the 5015.2 certification requirements.  As Adam mentioned in a paragraph prior to the ones you posted, all functionality developed to meet the very specific requirements of the 5015.2 standard were created using 'known SharePoint extensibility points (e.g. SharePoint event handlers, workflows, content types)'.    

I have been involved in a number of 5015.2 certification tests with several records management applications and this is the first time I know of where the underlying code of the application was not changed to meet any of the requirements.  In short, this was a configuration, not a customization and something anyone with the right MOSS licenses and a couple of good .NET developers could do.  

As for Chapter 4 certification, my humble opinion has always been that it just isn't necessary unless specifically required.  And I rarely, if ever, see it required outside of some very secure government agencies. Virtually every customer I have ever dealt with - DoD, federal agencies, commercial - has been satisfied with the product being Chapter 2 certified.  

Having said all this, I officially end my brief tenure as defender of the MOSS 2007 5015.2 certification and I'm headed off to the beach for a long-overdue vacation.  When I return I will re-establish myself as an RM Listserv lurker, peering in from the shadows to occasionally ensure that my name is not being used in vain.  (Though I am still happy to answer anyone's questions off-list.)

Don

---- Simon DeWitt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Excerpt from http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/05/30/microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-is-dod-5015-2-certified.aspx
> 
> The SharePoint product team worked together with Applied Information Sciences, Inc, a Microsoft Managed Gold Partner, to develop the extra features needed for certification.  AIS was instrumental in helping us understand the DoD 5015.2 standard, and they were great at rapidly developing on top of MOSS 2007.  So if you’d like to learn a little more about what it was like to use the SharePoint platform, check out some of their thoughts.
> 
> We still have some work to do to get the pack that was used for certification out to everyone (Later this year, Microsoft will make the pack available for free to customers using MOSS 2007)  and we have several whitepapers/code samples in production around some of the more compelling features.  So stay tuned for more updates on that!  
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> Thanks,
> 
> Adam Harmetz, ECM Program Manager
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> Sounds to me that they had to do heavy customization to receive the certification.
> I would suggest to wait and let some of the over eager test the SharePoint 2007 Server (Once they finally release that version)before everybody jumps on the Microsoft bandwagon. But it still does not sound like a superior RM product right of the shelf.
>  
> Now Jesse regarding the Chapter 4 Requirements.
> The red herring are already identified under Chapter 3.
> Chapter 4 of DOD 5015.2 ensures that a RMA is able to provide the Security and Audits needs that are, in my opinion, needed for a RMA. I believe in most cases you just don’t want to share all the information (HR Files, Legal Case Files, etc..) you would like to manage with your RMA with the entire Agency/Company. Now I also know that the requirements are high and a little bit specific to the needs of the Federal Government, but that would be the same with Chapter 2. So if we are saying that Chapter 4 is useless because they are specific Federal Governments needs than the entire certification would be useless, because Chapter 2 is also specific to Federal Governments needs. 
> 
> So in short what I am saying is that if you have a need for a RMA that you want to feel save with to manage sensitive information (HR Files, Legal Case Files, etc..,) than I would recommend you to pick a RMA from the list of RMA that are DOD 5015.2 with Chapter 4 certified. 
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> Simon De Witt
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