Microsoft's office 365 features e-discovery updates.

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Microsoft recently released updates to its Office 365 Security & Compliance Center (SCC) e-discovery features that are designed to help users with e-discovery procedures.

The SCC now features case management controls and an expanded set of search capabilities to help businesses locate critical information for lawyers and regulators, therefore reducing the time required to conduct investigations. The case management option allows users to work on cases without leaving the software and can be used to link compliance searches with a case, put holds on content sources, and determine who has access to a specific case, according to a report by eWeek.com.

According to eWeek, the Office 365 eDiscovery Case Management Hold feature preserves data in content sources, preventing tampering or deletion while conducting a case. Investigators can search Office 365 groups, OneDrive for Business sites, SharePoint sites, and mailboxes. Microsoft said the feature operates in the background, making documents and e-mails accessible to users while saving them for future searches and exporting.

"You can export the results from searching tens of thousands of mailboxes--up to 100 GB of data in a single PST [personal storage table file] export," explained the company in a May 17 blog post. "The ability to search all mailboxes in the organization and export the results in a single PST export, versus multiple PSTs, helps our customers collect email in an extremely useful format for broad investigations."

Microsoft added that the enhanced export option also keeps SharePoint document metadata intact and supports two-factor authentication for added security.

As for e-discovery searches, users can search everything from a small number of sources to an entire organization. Access to searches conducted as part of a case now can be limited to only those who...

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