{"id":2177,"date":"2017-01-20T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/dont-overlook-document-retention-and-e-discovery\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T18:33:35","slug":"dont-overlook-document-retention-and-e-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/government\/2017\/01\/20\/dont-overlook-document-retention-and-e-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t overlook document retention and e-discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting and enabling legal compliance means cloud service providers should be able to manage and store data in a way that meets government data retention, e-discovery, public records obligations, legal holds, archiving, messaging rules, and more \u2013 as part of the core service, not by requiring to the purchase of expensive third-party add-on services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-cloud-for-government-extends-leadership-in-compliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft offers built-in capabilities<\/a> which help you store data on your terms, and offers search and legal discovery, legal hold, archiving rules, and message handling rules or similar services.<\/p>\n<p>Azure Backup helps enable backups of your Azure Government infrastructure as a service (IaaS) VMs. This can help Azure Government customers in state, local, federal, civilian, and defense, plus more than 100 solution partners with dedicated government practices, to leverage the Microsoft Government\u00a0 for critical business needs by backing up their assets on the cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/info.microsoft.com\/GovernmentContactMe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Microsoft<\/a> and request a free trial of <a href=\"https:\/\/azuregov.microsoft.com\/trial\/azuregovtrial\" target=\"_blank\" 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