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Compliance

cc:Betty: A cool web app you may want to block

December 9, 2009

If you haven’t looked at Palo Alto-based cc:Betty yet, perhaps you should. cc:Betty promises to keep everyone on the same page. Still in beta, it’s a useful web app that helps users organize their email communication, collects email content, catalogs attachments and files, and also maintains your contacts. It’s also amazingly simple to use. Besides [...]

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Excellent e-Discovery Guide from Mimosa Systems

September 9, 2009

Are you involved with e-Discovery (aka “electronic discovery”) as a consequence of litigation, regulatory audit or perhaps an internal investigation? Whether you’ve been hit by litigation or not, it’s important for messaging professionals to know about e-Discovery, and be prepared for it. Mimosa Systems, the Santa Clara-based archiving software company, has an e-Discovery guide that’s [...]

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Managed Folders: Why aren’t Calendar items expired?

February 3, 2009

You’re testing Exchange 2007′s Messaging Records Management (MRM) features to implement your organization’s messaging retention policies. You create a new Managed Folder for Calendar items, and then create a Managed Content Setting for it to expire Calendar items in 1 year. Next, you create a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy and add the Managed Folder to [...]

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Start Managed Folder Assistant for a single mailbox

November 4, 2008

When testing Managed Folder Mailbox Policy settings in Exchange 2007, you may need to frequently run the Managed Folder Assistant (MFA)) to process a mailbox on-demand, so you can check the mailbox content and MRM logs. However, every time you run Start-ManagedFolderAssistant, the MFA processes all mailboxes on all Mailbox Databases on the server. Of [...]

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Exchange Quick Audit: mailboxes created in last 7 days

June 24, 2008

I remember writing plenty of scripts to report on different things such as user accounts created every week/month, user accounts modified, accounts disabled, etc. for SOX compliance. Some of those scripts used to be rather long, and in hindsight— involved a lot more lines of code than an administrator should have to write. Although I [...]

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The Saga Continues: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003

January 17, 2008

The saga of Messaging Records Mismanagement continues, with interesting bits and pieces surfacing every once in a while. Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen report in the Washington Post: From 2001 to October 2003, the White House’s practice was to use the same backup tape each day… Although the White House said in the filing that [...]

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Recipient Policies: Can separate policies for Email Addresses and Mailbox Manager Settings be applied?

January 3, 2008

Exchange Server 2003/2000′s Recipient Policies can have settings to generate email addresses for recipients, and Mailbox Manager settings to manage mailbox content. (The Exchange Server 2007 equivalents are 1. Accepted Domains + Email Address Policies to generate email addresses, and 2. Managed Folder Mailbox Policies (with default or custom Managed Folders + Managed Content Settings) [...]

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Schwartz: Zero tolerance for zero retention

December 5, 2007

On the first anniversary of the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (PDF), which provide guidelines for e-discovery, InfoWorld editor Ephraim Schwartz discusses the implications in his Reality Check column. Read more in “Zero tolerance for zero retention“.

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