Originally Posted by
RomeoTangoFoxtrotMike
By the look of them, these are Skype-for-Business Instant Messages, associated with Boeing’s Exchange system. IMs are archived in a folder inside Exchange, similarly to ordinary emails. It is likely—though not necessarily relevant—that this will be hosted in the Microsoft cloud (aka Office365), in which case a VPN would not be required for access to send such IMs.
Assuming they hadn’t been deleted—and Boeing’s deletion and retention schedules, if any, would be instructive here—recovering them would be straightforward for an Exchange admin with the right access rights. However, it’s not always as quick an activity as you might expect, and unlike email, individual IMs are not stored as separate messages but in ‘conversations’ (sometimes duplicated) which can complicate reassembling them back into a coherent sequence — perfectly possible, but not as quick as might be expected.
My point was and is that recovery of 'electronic' messages used with/from a boeing " email " such as joedoe at boe888 c88 address ( actual address is in pdf downloaded but cannot be posted here ) from anywhere in the world is a near trivial exercise nowdays what with vpn like systems. Sorting and linking may take a bit of time- measured in at most hours/days, not weeks or months. And if one uses boeing ' email ' or equivalent to send to your home address, boeing can easily add pki or equivalent certificates to your system- for better or worse - and not always with your knowledge or approval.
