Email Archive Migration: Why Hive MailPath Matters for ND Users 

Why Archives Matter

Email is more than a tool for communication. It also serves as evidence, provides context, and supports recordkeeping. Legacy archives remain important for several reasons. Emails are critical to eDiscovery and client records, and missing messages can compromise defensibility as well as case outcomes. In addition, legacy storage systems are prone to loss and decay. PSTs and backup drives are fragile, difficult to search, and often forgotten. Finally, without ingestion, legal holds remain incomplete. If archived emails are not in NetDocuments, they fall outside your retention and hold policies. 

Hive MailPath’s Advantage

Hive MailPath gives law firms a clear advantage when migrating to NetDocuments. It syncs emails from Exchange, whether on-premises or in the cloud. This means your data, whether stored in Outlook, Office 365, or older servers, can be ingested directly into NetDocuments. MailPath also maintains folder structures and metadata. By preserving context, authorship, timestamps, and relationships, it ensures nothing is lost in translation. Best of all, it runs quietly in the background. Users experience no disruption, no downtime, and continuous migration that works seamlessly. 

Compliance Value 

Once email archives are in NetDocuments, they become part of a firm’s governance strategy. They are searchable with a full audit trail, which means every message is indexed, discoverable, and tracked. The system also supports legal holds and retention policies, ensuring compliance with both internal and external requirements. In addition, Hive MailPath enables user access reviews. It teams and Legal Operations can monitor who has access to specific information and confirm the reason for that access.