E-Discovery and Litigation Data
Modern Data Sources
Teams content is stored across several services: chat in Exchange mailboxes, channel messages in group mailboxes, files in SharePoint and OneDrive, and meeting recordings in Stream or OneDrive.
Collection typically uses Microsoft Purview eDiscovery tooling.
Alternative Names:
Teams Discovery, Teams Data Collection
Why it Matters?
The distributed storage is what makes Teams collection error-prone, because collecting from one service captures part of a conversation while leaving files, recordings, or channel content behind. Verifying that a collection covered every underlying repository is a necessary step rather than an assumption. Meeting recordings and transcripts are the component most often missed, and they can be the most substantively useful material.
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What is most often missed?
