For eDiscovery matters. In the past, the client's IT staff has performed .pst exports for relevant custodians from their Exchange and provided to us. The number of relevant custodians exported per matter is usually 30 to 50, so thankfully a very small set of the total 70,000. We are potentially going to take over this process, so I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to find which server the custodian mailboxes reside on and then export the data to .pst and collect that. Thank you everyone for your responses, very helpful.
We are potentially going to take over this process, so I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to find which server the custodian mailboxes reside on and then export the data to .pst and collect that. Thank you everyone for your responses, very helpful.
So you work for an IT organisation or service provider? Am kinda surprised that with a client of that magnitude you don't have the answers already.
What kind of access are you going to have to the client's infrastrucure? I'm guessing you'll have network access with some kind of elevated privileges although not Domain Admin - maybe member of Discovery Group in Exchange?
Can't see why you need to know databases if Lit Hold is enabled and you can use EMS (assuming a script can be built which will go through the list of custodians one-by-one, I've currently not got the skill-set for that)
For eDiscovery matters. In the past, the client's IT staff has performed .pst exports for relevant custodians from their Exchange and provided to us. The number of relevant custodians exported per matter is usually 30 to 50, so thankfully a very small set of the total 70,000. We are potentially going to take over this process, so I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to find which server the custodian mailboxes reside on and then export the data to .pst and collect that. Thank you everyone for your responses, very helpful.
The most efficient way for long term is to deploy an eDiscovery solution for collection. Once you get through the initial install and configuration, collections become so easy that in some of my clients, email is collected by a Paralegal rather than by IT.