Policy Class

An information policy that resides on a site, is applied to a content type, or is applied to a list.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy.Policy

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Policy (in Microsoft.Office.Policy.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, ObjectModel := True)> _
<SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, ObjectModel := True)> _
Public Class Policy _
    Implements IDisposable
'Usage
Dim instance As Policy

[SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, ObjectModel = true)]
[SharePointPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, ObjectModel = true)]
public class Policy : IDisposable

Remarks

An information management policy is a set of rules for a certain type of important content. Policy enables administrators to control and evaluate who can access the information, how long to retain information, and how effectively people are complying with the policy itself.

Logically, each policy is a collection of instruction sets for one or more policy features. For each policy feature that you want to include in a policy, you include an instruction set, called a policy item, in the policy. A policy item contains the settings for only one policy feature.

For more information about information policies and policy features, see Managing Information Management Policy in SharePoint Server 2010 (ECM).

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Policy Members

Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy Namespace