Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 8. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Planning Enterprise Content Management 10-51 Planning for Content Approval and Scheduling Key Points Content approval is the process by which authored content is approved or rejected for publication. Content scheduling is the process by which content is published and made available to readers according to a specified schedule. The Publishing feature in SharePoint Server 2010 provides the ability to approve and schedule content for publishing. The scope of your Web content management plan must cover the management and review of content that your users create. SharePoint Server 2010 provides a Content Approval workflow that you can use to meet this requirement. Planning Content Approval Users who have Approver permissions control the publication of content by using the content approval process. You enable content approval in the versioning settings part of the library or list settings for the document library or list that contains the content that you want to publish. When you plan for content approval you must decide how you want content approval to work for your site and who can approve content for publishing. In SharePoint Server 2010 the control of content can be at one of the following levels MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 10-52 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure None. If content approval is not required for items in a document library after an author submits content for publishing it goes live immediately. Simple moderation. A member of the Approver group must manually approve content after an author submits it for publishing. The content is not visible to users with Read permissions until it has been approved. Approval workflow. You can use a workflow to run the approval process. If you use a workflow the approval process is more automated. In addition you can take advantage of the built-in workflow features. These features include automatically sending e-mail to approvers adding approval tasks to approvers task lists and enabling .
