Microsoft has been migrating Teams private channel data from participant mailboxes to new dedicated channel Group mailboxes since September 2025 and started deleting the ownerless or archived channels June 5th. Redgrave LLP’s Staci Kaliner wrote an excellent summary of the changes and the potential impact on holds, compliance and eDiscovery. All of this raises the risk of inadvertent loss of Teams communications for [...]
Many of my clients struggle to manage M365 Purview eDiscovery matters, holds and custodians. The Five Star Legal team’s eDig365 Reporter app can be purchased for $2,500/month directly from the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace. It addresses many of the management, tracking and audit pain points experienced by corporate legal teams that rely on Purview eDiscovery directly or through an integration to their eDiscovery platform [...]
Anyone can now create volumes of fake email, text screenshots and other deepfake ‘evidence’ with minimal effort. It not only shows up in cases, it raises the bar for authentication of real evidence. You may need more than a simple chain of custody to demonstrate reasonable effort and completeness of your discovery process. This trend makes me nostalgic for all my compliance mode Enterprise [...]
Ran into this recently with a client and wanted to share a short technical note so that you can avoid the headache. Many clients use shared subfolders in Teams/SharePoint to stage internal collections from document systems, 3rd parties or other non-M365 sources. Direct load to RelativityOne, Reveal or other cloud platform requires integration and security configuration. So many practitioners are still stuck downloading to [...]
Q1 2023 Microsoft rolled out the Teams Copilot Recap feature for customers with E5 and Copilot licenses. Most of my global corporate clients are still balancing the user demand for meeting recordings/transcripts against their potential cost/risk downstream. This is complicated by the potential Copilot generated recap summaries, action items/tasks and real time answers. So how can you manage retention and discovery of meeting related [...]
Hanzo’s new CEO Sarai Schubert clearly articulated Hanzo’s shift from compliance archiving to unified navigation and access of diverse collaborative enterprise sources. It could be that I am just out of date with their brand shift, but the briefing put them back on my RFP list for Enterprise clients seeking governance solutions for Slack, Teams, Google Workplace, Atlassian, Asana, Websites and other dynamic SaaS [...]
With 1784 updates to the Microsoft Roadmap, March seems to have had an ‘update your release dates’ mandate to the PM teams. We did have 253 actual new additions that seem to be focused on the new eDiscovery Portal, expanding CoPilot integrations, new IRM controls and more. There are a LOT of date and content updates to Purview eDiscovery items, so it is worth [...]
CEO Mike Schubert barely mentioned their new StreemView AI search in our briefing. Instead, he hammered on how StreemView's architecture and UI is uniquely designed for the mobile and collaborative data sources at the heart of modern investigations. Having spent the last quarter struggling with mobile and chat content in complex international investigations, his arguments resonated with me. Most lawyers think of evidence as [...]
CEO Elie Francis CRO Doug Kaminski While you may not be familiar with Infinnium, I am betting that it will appear on corporate legal's radar this year. Their 4iG platform was launched in 2018 and previously seemed focused on enterprise governance through in-place processing and analytics. Familiar eDiscovery rock stars Elie Francis (Driven/One Discovery) and Doug Kaminski (Relativity/Consilio) joining [...]
In March-April Exterro customers will be able to collect common mobile device content over wireless corporate networks without phone apps or agents. This new offering leverages the Exterro platform, FTK Suite(acquired 2020) and an agent installed on legal team workstation. The custodian grants one-time trust permission for collection access and the incremental collections are made without disrupting users while they are connected to [...]