Re: E-Discovery of remote PST files

[John Lerchey <lerchey () ANDREW CMU EDU>]

Hi Dave,

The easiest way that I've found to search PSTs is to have them loaded into outlook on a local drive and apply search 
terms provided by counsel.

I haven't seen any automated tools, other than "site solutions" that run on or in conjunction with the mail servers.

John


> All, our legal counsel are trying to comply with a legal request to turn over
> all email communication campus wide regarding an individual over the last
> couple years.  We do not archive messages, and the vast majority of our users
> pull their email via POP3 to Outlook where those messages are stored on their
> local PC.
>
> Are there any tools you can recommend to remotely scan users PST files for
> specific messages, and hopefully pull those messages out, or foward them off
> to the administrator?
>
> Obviously, we will have to come up with other methods for Mac users or those
> using different email clients, but the vast majority are Outlook users... so
> any help there would be greatly appreciated.  It will take forever to visit
> hundreds of PCs.


John K. Lerchey
Coordinator for Incident Response
Information Security Office
Carnegie Mellon University