“There's just too much.”
In the early- to mid-2000s, many corporate attorneys were given this answer by their IT counterparts to justify why they couldn't simply “push a button” and search all of the organization's e-mail.
Imagine if that same lawyer and IT professional could turn back time to the late 90s and come up with a solid policy to govern how e-mail was created, stored and disposed of that not only satisfied the legal requirements, but was also enforceable from an IT perspective. That is where we are right now with SharePoint. Have we learned a lesson?
“There's just too much.”
In the early- to mid-2000s, many corporate attorneys were given this answer by their IT counterparts to justify why they couldn't simply “push a button” and search all of the organization's e-mail.
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