So I set out to fire up a fresh SP2010 install with the new BETA bits today... Since I wanted to do a "Complete" install using SQL 2008 (not Express), I promptly referenced Neil Hodgkinson's "From the Field" blog top on "Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts."  Excellent post Neil!  It was VERY helpful. But being the control freak that I am, I wasn't content going back to the world of GUID laden Administration databases.  So I did a little digging in the New-SPConfigurationDatabase powershell cmdlet and I found a handy extra parameter. Instead of using just "New-SPConfigurationDatabase", try...

Ok, so lets do a little math here. In SharePoint 2007, you can define only 1 Records Center at a time for official files.  A single site collection (including a Records Center) in its own content database might contain somewhere around 1 million documents at a meager average of 55KB per document.  That keeps us under the 100GB content database recommended size limit. 1 million documents?  Seriously?  I suppose you could try to manage multiple records centers but this would get interesting if you actually needed to put something in legal hold in multiple records centers.  So for all practical purposes, we were severey...