EDiscovery Impact of Advanced Indexing in M365
Microsoft’s default ambient index in M365 often leaves items partially indexed, raising compliance concerns under FRCP 26(g). Premium (E5) customers can enable Advanced Indexing, which automatically re‑processes those items, runs OCR, and generates detailed reports. The feature activates when custodians or data sources are promoted to review or export, but only if all team and SharePoint members hold an E5 license. Without it, content searches remain unreliable, and Review Sets create new Azure copies that increase storage costs.
Microsoft Roadmap: Q1 2026
Microsoft’s Q1 2026 roadmap adds roughly 380 features, emphasizing deep Copilot integration across the Microsoft 365 suite and a slew of eDiscovery‑focused enhancements. New capabilities include Copilot‑driven summarization and keyword extraction, customer‑managed encryption keys for review sets, and OCR‑based DLP for images...