Advanced eDiscovery for Non-Office 365 Data

I have been asked a few times, is it possible to use the Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery service to analyze data that is not in Office 365.

The answer is yes; it is possible.

In many cases, organizations have legacy file shares, archives, other cloud services that have relevant data that needs to be made part of an eDiscovery case.  With this solution you have the ability to import data for your case into an Azure container and then have Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery analyze this data.  To use this feature, you must have the Advanced eDiscovery licenses, plus it will require additional Azure storage purchase for storing all the additional non-Office 365 data that is imported.

One side note – This feature does not work with PST files.

Here is the article on how to do this - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Import-non-Office-365-content-for-Advanced-eDiscovery-analysis-0ee60763-a30b-495b-8543-971c3384a801

Announcement about this feature was in Sept 2017 - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Bringing-deeper-integration-and-new-capabilities-to-Office-365/ba-p/109409