Via the SharePoint ECM Team.

Continuing from my post series about Records Management in SharePoint the following information outlines how SharePoint 2010 provides enhanced eDiscovery.

How SharePoint Server 2010 supports eDiscovery

There are two parts to eDiscovery in SharePoint Server: finding relevant documents, and restricting what users can do with the documents once they have been identified.

A hold is a set of documents that might be produced as part of an eDiscovery request. Within SharePoint Server, you enable or disable the Hold and eDiscovery feature at the level of an individual site. This feature is enabled by default in a Records Center site, and is disabled by default in all other types of sites. The Hold and eDiscovery feature enables you to create and manage holds, to add items to a hold, and to use search to discover content and copy the content to another location, or lock the content down in place so that it cannot be modified or deleted.

 

Read more about eDiscovery on “Planning for eDiscovery (SharePoint Server 2010)”

eDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2010 – Blog Post from the SharePoint ECM team