Microsoft Teams Archiving: A Necessity for Compliance and eDiscovery
Due to the pandemic, many people were forced to work remotely for the first time, causing communication and collaboration issues between workgroups, clients, and even between the company and employees. As a result, companies rushed to embrace collaboration applications like Zoom, Slack, Meet, WebEx, Jabber, Microsoft Teams, etc., to keep their suddenly remote workforce connected and productive. Since so many businesses rely on Microsoft's Office 365 suite for their day-to-day operations, it's no surprise that most of them turned to MS Teams to help their workers communicate successfully while working from home. But while the immediate focus was on the employees' productivity, businesses should now also consider what the rapid surge in new application usage implies for their data retention and management, compliance, and litigation requirements. Compliance Several compliance regulations require companies to preserve certain records for at least six years. For example, SEC ...