Microsoft's legacy SharePoint Server overview defines document management across creation, review, publication, retention and disposal. It emphasizes matching controls to the organization's working culture rather than imposing one level of structure everywhere. The material concerns older server planning guidance.

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Use the lifecycle principles while checking current platform capabilities separately. Decide what documents, templates and review processes are required so the storage solution supports how the organization maintains information, not merely where its files are placed.