Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’

In choosing an archiving solution for SharePoint, it is important to ask these questions:

Bow Tie Law’s Blog recently had an interesting piece on litigation holds titled “The Holding Pattern: Lessons Learned on Litigation Holds” where insufficient notices or notices crated in bad faith can jeopardize a case because of the possibility of spoliation of ESI.

I have run across this same problem with past customers that didn’t take the litigation hold responsibility seriously.

I ran across a recent blog post the other day in which the writer states that when Archiving 2.0 arrives, archiving products will not only serve SharePoint, but also capture data from other content sources like email and file servers.

Mimosa offers SharePoint archiving 2.0 already. Combining multiple content sources over point solutions that only serve SharePoint makes sense.

In the case Pinstripe, Inc. v. Manpower, Inc., 2009 WL 2252131 (N.D. Okla. July 29, 2009), the defendant ran afoul of the litigation hold requirement by relying on a manual form of placing litigation holds, e.g. send litigation hold notices out to affected custodians.

The risk in this process is that 1. you have to send the notice out to all potentially affected custodians and 2. you have to be sure they read and understand the notice.

In honor of Sys admin Day my post today is a little bit more technical and I want to go over the scalability of a SharePoint Farm deployment.

Microsoft actually has done a good job with making the scalability limits available for SharePoint, which is important seeing the growth SharePoint is going through. 

California’s newly passed “Electronic Discovery Act” or Assembly Bill #5, now brings California civil litigation eDiscovery into the realm of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Going forward, parties involved in civil litigation and discovery in the state of California have several new requirements to consider in reference to electronically stored information (ESI) including the meet and confer session, accessible verses inaccessible data, format of ESI production among others.

Microsoft positions SharePoint as a document and information sharing platform for companies. 

SharePoint Team Services provides templates for setting up a Web site so that workgroups can share documents, calendars, announcements, postings, host blogs and wikis among other things.

SharePoint Portal Server is used to build intranet portals and share documents. The SharePoint system is a very powerful platform that will become a staple for most business entities.

When looking at eDiscovery preparedness, most companies look at their SharePoint, Windows File System and Exchange email systems as the main target of eDiscovery requests. There is another data type that companies need to consider when planning their eDiscovery processes.

The increased adoption of SharePoint into the corporate infrastructure has highlighted a new ESI eDiscovery target in the litigation process. The SharePoint system effectively captures and manages records and revisions. The new SharePoint release touts eDiscovery capabilities that allow the user to search for and find specific SharePoint records in response to a discovery request.