eDiscovery Certification Council
Professional Training Course • Vendor-Neutral • Self-Paced Online
Microsoft 365 & Cloud Data eDiscovery Specialist (MCDES)
Build practical Microsoft 365, Purview and multi-cloud eDiscovery capability for defensible cloud evidence workflows.
Course Details
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| Duration | 2 Hours and 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Exam Language | English |
| Exam Expiration | 1 Year from Purchase |
| Study Guide | eCourseware / Self-paced online |
Detailed Course Outline
The course covers the subject areas below, based on the detailed curriculum published for this programme.
Introduction of the Course
- Course Overview
1 – Introduction to Cloud eDiscovery
- Evolution of eDiscovery
- Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
- Cloud benefits vs risks
- Major cloud platforms overview
- Microsoft 365 architecture
- Data locations & metadata basics in M365
- Role of Microsoft Purview
- UK legal & regulatory context for cloud eDiscovery
- Quiz
2 – Microsoft 365 eDiscovery Fundamentals
- eDiscovery Standard vs eDiscovery Premium
- Purview roles, permissions and governance
- Creating and managing cases in Purview
- Legal-hold concepts and implementation
- Custodian-management best practices
- Microsoft Purview configuration
- Defensible eDiscovery workflow overview
- Quiz
3 – Identification & Collection in Microsoft 365
- Search-strategy fundamentals
- Keyword Query Language
- Building targeted queries
- Searching Exchange Online
- Searching SharePoint and OneDrive
- Searching Teams chats and channels
- Handling chat data
- Metadata importance
- Export considerations
- Quiz
4 – Review, Tagging & Export Workflows
- Creating review sets and managing review workflows
- Document tagging, coding and issue tagging
- Redaction methods and defensible redaction
- Producing and exporting data
- Maintaining chain of custody and export logs
- Integration/export compatibility
- ECA and analytics overview
- Quiz
5 – Compliance, Security & Data Privacy
- UK GDPR essentials and eDiscovery implications
- International transfers and data residency
- Retention labels
- Encryption and audit logs
- Defensibility documentation
- Strategies for defensible deletion
- Incident-response intersection with eDiscovery
6 – Cross-Platform eDiscovery & Multi-Cloud
- Google Workspace Vault essentials
- Slack data exports and discovery approaches
- Connectors and integrations for multi-cloud
- Unified reporting and metrics
- Cross-platform issues
- Comparative workflow patterns
- Quiz
Demos
- Microsoft Purview – Conducting eDiscovery Search
- How to Use Microsoft Purview
Ready to start the MCDES training course?
Course fee: $149 • Self-paced online eCourseware