Governance featuresof SharePoint 2010


Site templates โ€“ consistent branding, site structure, and layout can be enforce a set of customizations that are applied to a site definition.
Quotas โ€“ limits to the amount of storage a site collection can use.
Locks - prevent users from either adding content to a site collection or using the site collection.
Web application permissions and policies โ€“ comprehensive security settings that apply to all users and groups for all site collections within a Web application.
Self-service site creation - enables users to create their own site collections, thus must be incorporated into a governance scheme.