E-Discovery and Microsoft Technology

First, Let's Kill All The .PSTs

Let's face it, from an e-discovery perspective, having email stored in local .PST files on individual users' hard drives is risky. You don't want them around, because: The end user's hard drive might fail, resulting in the loss of potentially valuable

Why E-Discovery?

I wanted to make a quick post to motivate why e-discovery is so important to IT Pros. Isn't it reasonable to assume that this is just a problem for lawyers, or that the IT staff is going to play a minor, supporting role in all this? Not anymore. There

POP! Goes the Evidence.

Who could resist a catchy title like this: "Court-ordered forensic search of CEO's laptop?" When I first saw that, I immediately wondered, "Just how many Michael Bolton MP3s were on there?" But if you read the tale of Treppel v. Biovail on the K&L

Hold Me Now! How to quickly put a retention hold on 1,400 employees using Microsoft Exchange 2007.

The consequences for failing to correctly implement a retention hold can be severe. For example, issues surrounding a litigation hold helped cause Intel to lose attorney-client privilege and work-product protection of certain materials relating to their