Native Mode Yammer Networks Generate Office 365 Compliance Records

A post to a Yammer community
A post to a Yammer community

Slow Progress Towards Office 365 Compliance and Data Governance For years, I have been mildly to harshly critical of Yammer’s inability to march in the same step as the rest of Office 365, particularly in data governance and compliance. Much has been promised, but the delivery has been slow, even in Microsoft’s self-proclaimed “Year of […]

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Potential Problems Lurk When OneDrive Users Block Office 365 Searches


It’s hard to find and fix every legacy on-premises setting. In the case of OneDrive for Business, it allows users to stop their site appearing in search results. That doesn’t sound too bad, but blocking search affects many other Office 365 features and it’s a good example of how a legacy setting can have a big influence in the cloud. Fortunately Microsoft agrees and they’re going to fix the problem. We don’t know when or how the fix will come, but when it does, users won’t be able to disable eDiscovery for their OneDrive for Business site.

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The Magic Behind OWA Likes


OWA is the only Outlook client that supports “Likes.” This begs the question how OWA supports likes and where the information about likes is stored. Some probing using easily accessible tools reveals the answer. You might think that the answer only interests Office 365 Trivial Pursuit nerds, but it’s actually of real interest to eDiscovery investigators.

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Verifying Office 365 User Content Access by Administrators

Office 365 Administrators have many ways to access user data. It’s important to set up a policy to control and then verify that access. If you don’t, your administrators might be looking into Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint, and OneDrive without oversight. And that would be a bad thing.

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Using Office 365 IM Conversation Records for eDiscovery

Teams and Skype for Business Online both capture IM conversation records that can be found by Office 365 eDiscovery (content) searches. All of which is good, but if you ever get around to performing eDiscovery and need this information, you’ll find that Skype for Business Online conversation transcripts are easier to use than the individual copies of conversation contributions captured by Teams.

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New Legal Battle Again Shines Light on Need for Secure Messaging Record Retention

Recent legal battles have once again brought the compliance and moral compass of businesses using secure messaging applications into the spotlight.
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