<p>Over the last decade or so, organizations of all types have had to comply with an increasingarray of regulations and accompanying legal requirements that revolve around retaining varioustypes of electronic records. This has been particularly problematic for SharePoint administrators,who have not had a good way to find, preserve or manage specific types of regulated content withoutinvesting in third-party software -- until now.</p><p>That isn't to say that the SharePoint features list in previous versions of the collaborationplatform didn't include any e-discovery tools. SharePoint2010 introduced a set of crude legal hold and e-discovery capabilities so administrators couldplace holds on SharePoint sites to prevent content relevant to legal cases from being removed ormodified. The admins could then use a search function to look for data related to a specificsubject.</p><p>But such discoveryand hold capabilities have been greatly improved in SharePoint 2013, which is now in generalrelease.</p><p>The biggest change comes in the form of added support for Exchange Server, and that should begood news for SharePoint administrators because many of the e-discovery requests that organizationsreceive and the regulations they must adhere to specifically focus on email. While Exchange Serverhas long had built-in hold and e-discoveryfeatures of its own, discovery and retention tasks for Exchange and SharePoint had to bemanaged separately. But with SharePoint 2013, a new feature called the Discovery Center enablesadmins to enforce holds and perform queries and exports of both Exchange and SharePoint datasimultaneously.</p><p><a href="http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/SharePoint-features-list-in-2013-release-includes-e-discovery-upgrade">Keep reading...</a></p>