Well, I hate to be a bearer of bad news, but you are out of luck. We are looking at SharePoint as well for collaboration - seems like a great tool for that purpose. Unfortunately, records management is not on Microsoft's radar screen, at least not for SharePoint anyway. As you say, MS sees SharePoint as a "temporary" electronic storage area. Documents with any type of retention are expected to be moved to a repository when they become a "record." I think Doug's earlier suggestion is correct - look for an RM product that will work with SharePoint. We are planning to implement an ECM within the next two years. One of our requirements is the ability of whatever system we purchase to interface with collaborative tools, such as SharePoint and E-Room. Shaking and quaking in Southern California... Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP Manager, Records Management Sempra Global 619-696-4671 619-696-2534 (Fax) 619-952-7145 (Cell) "Paper kills-and more paper kills more." Judah Best, JD "Sempra Global is not the same company as the utility SDG&E or SoCal Gas, and Sempra Global is not regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission." -----Original Message----- From: Peter Kurilecz [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 12:46 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Sharepoint Services the following query comes from someone who wishes to remain anonymous but needs information from the list. Please post all responses to the listserv <snip> I am looking specifically for information regarding the handling of retention and legal holds within SharePoint Services. During a conference call with some team members working on SharePoint services (not Portal) along with a Microsoft representative. The MS representative indicated that SharePoint was being used for short-term collaboration , but as of now they do not have a built-in way to handle retention and legal holds. As you know people will start using SharePoint services for more than short-term collaboration since it?s so easy and can cross multiple locations and therefore, we need to proactively consider retention and legal holds. How are other companies handling retention of records and legal holds within SharePoint services? We currently have people using SharePoint services on the development server. It has not been approved for production yet until retention and legal holds can be addressed. <snip> any advice or experiences are most welcome Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask] List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance