Extract from Streemview’s article, “Microsoft Teams Discovery: Why Native Processing Is the Only Approach That Works.”
Microsoft Teams is now the dominant source of internal corporate communications in most large organizations. And it has become, by extension, the largest and most complex source of modern communications data in eDiscovery.
Yet most eDiscovery platforms weren’t built for Teams. They were built for email — and Teams support was bolted on afterward. The patchwork shows at every stage of the workflow: in the manual effort required to process Purview exports, in the broken threading that produces orphaned messages, in the attachment handling that leaves SharePoint files disconnected from the messages that referenced them.
This guide walks through the core challenges that make Teams data difficult to process — and what a purpose-built pipeline actually looks like.
