There is good news, eDiscoverySquad and the Library of Congress has some free and easy to use tools to help you in the process.

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In a recent discussion last week with Jenni Williams, Channel/Client Relationship Manager for Google, I learned that the processes of setting up a procedure to amend the terms and conditions for Google Apps customers to cover Google Vault is nearly final and the only loose end before the large scale roll out begins.

Ms. Williams said that there are no API’s for Google Vault yet, but this will be an area to watch as eDiscovery kicks into high gear for Google.   There are already a number of data management tools such as Google Active Directory Synch – GADS , Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange  - GAMME, which can move ESI related to user identities, email, calendar, and contacts.  GAMME can use IMAP to connect with a wide variety of email providers, such as Microsoft® Exchange Server (2000, 2003, 2007 or 2010) or IMAP server (any RFC 3501-compliant IMAP server, including Microsoft® Exchange, Novell Groupwise, Cyrus, Courier, Dovecot, SunMail, Zimbra, and Gmail), or work directly with .PST files.

Both GAMME and GADS also support a command line scripting ability and can be launched in the back ground.

Prior to Google Vault, Google customers had their email routed through Postini for eDiscovery.   However, gradually the features of Postini have been migrated into Gmail, and the Google Vault addition will be the final step to begin the process of migrating users away from Postini.

Watch for more developments to pick up in this specialized area.

Jeffrey Goodwin

Founder, eDiscoverySquad, LLC

http://ediscoverysquad.com/about-us

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We are also testing Lexis Nexis Law pre-Discovery modules, which currently covers 4,145    file types.   To view those file types, click here:

http://ediscoverysquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/File-Type-Manager-LAW-1.xlsx

Law pre-Discovery has a module add in for advanced OCR which handles converting Asian characters to 16 bit unicode text.

Most eDiscovery software vendors support conversion of English and European languages into searchable PDF’s, we have found that many cannot properly OCR Asian character sets.

So, we developed some open source software that converts Asian character sets into searchable .PDF’s.   Contact us to get a copy of the free program.

Here is the compilation of the file types that have been tested by the iPro eCapture software that we are testing that includes over 750 file types:

http://ediscoverysquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/iPro-File-Types.xlsx

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Subject
Body
Recipients
From/Author (Can use creation or modification date)
Email Date
CC
Atachment Count
BCC
White Space (eliminated)
User Start/End times for Appointment items without a sent date

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