The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are a set of guidelines set by the U.S. Supreme Court regulating court procedure for civil suits.  FRCP often refers to revisions made in December of 2006 regarding electronic discovery, which became effective December 1, 2007.  Electronic documents such as email, instant messages, or calendar files, and traditional documents stored electronically must be available for timely search and retrieval in the event of litigation proceedings.  Discovery must be maintained in its original format.  Accidental deletion, misplacement, or any inability to locate data before deadlines will result in court fines.

Just like file or email data requires legal discovery to preserve the integrity of the data, SharePoint documents and web content also needs to be retained according to certain regulations and “discovered” according to FRCP Compliance regulations. Because of its lack of connector support, the SharePoint Platform cannot index all the critical digital data. Some of the indexing that SharePoint does do, can also compromise any metadata. There is also no litigation hold feature to prevent incredibly relevant information from being deleted from the custodial account (whether by pre-specified retention policy or by manual deletion).



MessageSolution Enterprise eDiscovery Platform for SharePoint ensures that any organization is in proper compliance with any regulations. It also makes certain that all electronic stored data (ESI), including SharePoint files, are instantly accessible without having been compromised. Features including our Case Management and Annotation allow for cooperation and coordination between multiple parties while still preserving the original state of the data.

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