4-7: Quarantine and Manage Uploads to a Document Library with Multiple Content Types

Solution overview

Type of solution

Guidance and procedures

Features and tools

SharePoint site columns, content types, document libraries, and views

Solution summary

Create a content type to receive documents that are uploaded or copied to a library without an association to the correct content type.

Benefits

Prevent documents from becoming visible to users until they have been assigned to the correct content type and have had required properties configured.

Introduction

If you use Windows Explorer to copy one or more documents into a document library, or if you use the Upload Multiple Documents menu command, the documents are uploaded to the library. But you will not be ...

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