Archives New Zealand has issued a document setting out the basis of its Appraisal Framework. It sets out the future direction for identifying records that should be retained as public archives and records that should be destroyed once business and other requirements have been met.

An increasingly common questions that we hear working in the area of document and records management is “What do we do about the Cloud?” Although most of our customers are deploying SharePoint and RecordPoint in a traditional ‘on premises’ configuration, increasingly we are being asked about Cloud options. 

The last time I felt this dumb was after installing Windows Vista. On this occasion, many years and software iterations later, I was midway through an Office365 migration gone pear-shaped. The same feelings of regret and powerlessness washed over me as the realisation dawned that the Telstra support guy in Bangalore controlling the mouse wandering aimlessly across my monitor had even less of an idea than I did what was going on.