Month: October 2020

Using MS Teams without an Exchange Online mailbox

Using MS Teams without an Exchange Online mailbox

When people chat in Microsoft Teams (MS Teams), a 'compliance' copy of the chat is saved to either personal or (Microsoft 365) Group mailboxes. This copy is subject to retention policies, and can be found and exported via Content Search. But what happens if there is no Exchange Online mailbox? It seems the chats become … Continue reading Using MS Teams without an Exchange Online mailbox

A modern way to manage the retention of digital records

A modern way to manage the retention of digital records

In his April 2007 article titled 'Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing' (Harvard University RWP07-022), Viktor Mayer-Schönberger noted that the default human behaviour for millenia was to forget. Only information that needed to be kept would be retained. He noted that the digital world had changed the default to … Continue reading A modern way to manage the retention of digital records