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asnow5280
Copper Contributor
Oct 02, 2023

Ediscovery PST read-only?

I haven't been able to find anything that says whether a PST downloaded through e-discovery can be edited or not. I've been advised that DoD prohibits it but want to be certain. Can anyone advise?  ...
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Kidd_Ip
MVP
Oct 03, 2023

asnow5280 

 

To my understanding, it is yes, one of the reasons is compliance fulfillment

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    asnow5280
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 03, 2023

    Kidd_Ip 

     

    Thanks for the reply. You're saying yes, you believe it is read-only? I've searched and searched and haven't found anything stating so. However, in the online Learning pages you see this line...

    "After search results are exported to a PST file, you or other users can open them in Outlook to review or print messages returned in the search results."

    Which would lead me to believe (hope) the file is read-only.

     

    Thanks again

     

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      VasilMichev
      MVP
      Oct 03, 2023
      No, PSTs are not read-only, every user that has access to the PST can mount it in Outlook and make changes to it.
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        asnow5280
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 03, 2023
        Thanks for the reply.

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