eDiscovery Journal

Teams Workspace Hubs = ESI Evolution

Microsoft and Google are busy re-inventing how knowledge workers collaborate. Many of us have stumbled onto complex sets of interdependent Excel workbooks being shared by accounting, sales and other teams. With good chain-of-custody procedures, I have reconfigured environments so that counsel or experts could manually review these ‘semi-structured’ file sets to extract potentially relevant snapshots. The breadth of sources simultaneously touched by Teams and [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-08-30T14:02:48-05:00August 30th, 2021|Platform, Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture|0 Comments

IPRO-ZyLAB: Further eDiscovery Consolidation

Yet another acquisition in the accelerating consolidation of the eDiscovery market space. In this case there is some functional overlap offset by clear differentiation in solution strengths. In my opinion, both players peaked early in the eDiscovery market and were being left behind until recently. Maybe the ParkerGale Capital money and guidance will forge a real competitor to the evolving Relativity-Reveal-Exterro battle royal. For [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-07-14T10:09:43-05:00July 14th, 2021|Info Gov, Platform, Europe, Investigation, News, Collectors, Preservation, Collection, Legal Holds|0 Comments

Nuix IPO – Autonomy Take Two?

Despite the recent drop in share prices ($11.86 down to $2.47), public ASIC investigations, executive departures and now AFP raids, I still believe that last November’s bully Nuix IPO was a signal of the world market’s appetite in legal technology. It would be a shame if the two largest eDiscovery transactions to date both proved to have cooked their books. For those of you [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-06-30T13:42:24-05:00June 30th, 2021|Provider, Analytics, Essay, Collectors, Asia Pacific, Global, Market|0 Comments

Teams Collections Complications – MC261534

M365 Teams collections are already challenging corporate eDiscovery and provider teams with hidden SharePoint and OneDrive sites. Today’s Major Change Update Notification (MC261534 - reproduced at end for non-admins) covers the June-July roll out of Roadmap ID 81945 that dramatically expands custodian’s ability to associate existing/other Teams sites and automatically create private channel sites. More importantly, non-admin custodians are losing the ability to manually [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-06-14T10:55:15-05:00June 14th, 2021|Info Gov, Essay, Investigation, Collectors, Preservation, Collection, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Search|0 Comments

Teams Transcripts – eDiscovery Gap

Teams transcripts are not currently available in M365 Content Search, eDiscovery or via the Graph API. As previously blogged about, Microsoft is busy consolidating the Microsoft 365 architecture to improve search and other functionality. There are obvious issues with working on the car while your customers are driving it, even when it is the most efficient solution. As of October 2020, the default Teams [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-06-09T16:10:47-05:00June 9th, 2021|Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds, Collection, Processing, ESI Sources, Search|0 Comments

Quick Performance Tip for AED2 Processing

A peer with a looming deadline messaged me yesterday to ask if I knew of any way to export Advanced eDiscovery (AED2) collections without processing them into a review set. Despite a vague recollection from the Spring 2021 AED webinar of a MSFT PM saying that a ‘direct to export’ collection feature was on the road map I could not find confirmation. At this [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-05-26T11:18:52-05:00May 26th, 2021|Platform, Essay, Collectors, ESI Sources, Search|0 Comments

M365 Advanced eDiscovery Spring Update

Microsoft’s Information & Protection teams are rolling out Advanced eDiscovery(AED) updates at a remarkable rate. The product team’s April 7th webinar and presentation deck has not yet been published, but I wanted to share some perspectives on how these updates may impact AED users. The pandemic has driven E5 license upgrades and features to support remote employees, which makes AED usage more practical for [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-04-14T13:03:28-05:00April 14th, 2021|Platform, United States, Essay, Analytics, Collectors, Collection, Legal Holds, Processing, Analysis, Review, Architecture, Search|0 Comments

M365 AED Collections – Not Actually Collected

The latest update to the M365 Advanced eDiscovery console is on their way to your or your client’s tenant. While this change seems to be primarily cosmetic (renaming Searches to Collections tab), there are some important things going on under the surface. In my recent blog on Handling M365 Unindexed Content I explained how AED automatically processes and reindexes partially or unindexed items placed [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-03-18T16:07:17-05:00March 18th, 2021|Essay, Collectors, Preservation, Legal Holds, Collection, Processing, Review, Architecture|0 Comments

Relativity-X1 – Well Timed for the Pandemic

Today’s announcement of the Relativity-X1 Enterprise integration had me puzzled at first. After all, Relativity Collect has been integrated with X1 Discovery files/emails since 2019. So what is the difference? Digging into the announcement and their documentation, my take on the new integration with X1 Enterprise Platform is the indexing of remote custodians and other data sources for in place search/collection. There are two [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-02-16T11:44:23-06:00February 16th, 2021|Platform, Essay, Collectors, Search|0 Comments

M365 eDiscovery Search Alert

For enterprise on M365 E3/E5 that have been running keyword searches to export data from OneDrive and SharePoint for discovery in 2020, you may have had a problem. This will be a long piece, so I will try to pack the important parts up front. Last August, while testing the new online Microsoft (“MSFT”) Word transcription feature I stumbled onto what appeared to be [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-01-31T10:55:04-06:00January 31st, 2021|Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds, Architecture, Search|0 Comments