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The Importance of Email Retention, Journaling and Recoverability (and why Cloud Solutions Fail)

For most of us, email is simply a means of communicating work.  It's a glorified, bi-directional to-do list with comments. Emails come in, we read, do and delete. Once the work is done, there's usually no need to find the email again.  That's all very true except for when something goes wrong and your company gets taken to court. Suddenly then, all those deleted emails are very, very important.  How Email Discovery could work under Litigation So, assuming that there's a legal case, such as a lawsuit, that involves your company. You could be asked to produce all the emails within a given period (say, six months) which include certain key phrases -- or perhaps all emails from a now-terminated employee. In the event that email cannot be produced, you could be fined or worse, you could lose the ability to defend your company in court.  ...and it doesn't stop there, your company might not even be directly involved in the court case but could be dragged in as

Copy as Table works (in One Direction) for IBM Notes/Verse Interactions

Copy as table used to be one of my favourite IBM Notes features. We have a lot of databases full of documents, news stories etc. We also have an office which is "entirely migrated to connections.cloud" but not entirely using Verse.  Some people just won't let go of the Notes interface - we're working on that problem.  One of our databases contains news stories, the links for which we regularly send out to the rest of the organisation. We quickly discovered that the Verse users couldn't open the links. This is because the doclinks had our Notes Server names (eg: http://internalserver.ournetwork.local) as http, instead of Notes protocol; (Notes://internalserver). This morning I discovered a great update to Verse.  I don't know when exactly IBM did it, but I'm very grateful. To Copy Documents as a Table Go to a Notes database (in the Notes Client) and select a bunch of documents  Use Right Mouse click, Copy as Table,  They're now on the