Document Autoclassification Technologies
A MasterClass – ification for unstructured content Post 1 This is an exciting time to be in the world of AI, machine learning, and autoclassification for unstructured information. This is a broad topic, so I want to focus on very specific elements that you can search on to auto-apply classifications and where they work well. […]
Finding and Protecting the Crown Jewels – A Compliance Framework
Information Governance seems to manifest itself in multiple separate projects managed under a single roof. It is better than silos, but still not completely integrated. M365 strategies, for example, may not touch paper file management, which may not touch GDPR, which may not touch long term archival information. I wanted to put together a high-level […]
The problems of network shared drives
Even after years of migration to the cloud, the largest collection of unstructured content in the enterprise is the shared network drive. We know that it is insufficient for a wide variety of tasks and it is the single largest impediment to good Information Governance. Justifying its transformation requires some insight into what weaknesses it […]
The Needs of the Organization
If you are in an Information Governance position in your organization, you have an opportunity to smooth out the traditional conflict that governance has with the people who work in your organization. The conflict can arise because the needs of the organization do not always match the needs of the individual worker. Here are the […]
Digital Transformation and Cloud Migration – A Content Assessment
The rise in virtual meetings in Teams, as well as the time and effort that Microsoft has put into M365, means that organizations now have access to amazing Information governance technologies and compliance features. Whether or not your organization is taking advantage of all those capabilities, with an E3 license or an E5 license, is […]
eDiscovery Inside and Outside M365
The eDiscovery world is a fickle market. Seemingly normal and mundane tasks take on an important air of formality in the legal world. Consistency is key because the risks involved with a lack of consistency can be devastating. Did you produce everything you had? Are you hiding something? At the core, the evidence found in […]
Digital Transformation and Cloud Migration – The Trouble with PST files*
In the midst of a shared drive digital transformation project or a M365 cloud migration project, one of the biggest and most confounding pieces you will come across is the PST file. This article addresses the issues of bulk migration to a SharePoint online (rather than email) environment, but the learnings apply to other types […]
Digital Transformation – Get Compliance Horses Back in the Barn
I am consistently running into a concerning schizophrenia in the way corporations manage their information. On the one hand, there are responsible corporate compliance professionals developing records and security frameworks to granularly understand and protect information in, for example, M365. On the other hand, there are responsive customer-focused IT professionals providing the latest (yet un-governed) […]
Transforming Network Drives – How do I get there?
Once you have cleaned and prepped your file shares, it is time to get painting. These are the steps you will go through to digitally transform your shared drives AND migrate content into your M365 environment when the time comes. Step 1 – Prep – You can do this NOW! • Using both policy and […]
Prepare for the Digital Transformation of
Network Drives – User Level
Updated:Sep 6, 2020 Previous Post:Prepare for the Digital Transformation of Network Drives – Enterprise Level Previous Post:Prepare for the Digital Transformation of Network Drives – Workgroup Level Naming conventions are not just polite. These dos and don’ts are helpful for human beings using the file shares, but they also help establish criteria that indexing software […]
