Product documentation (Multi-Geo data residency) — Microsoft OneDrive for Business

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• Multi geo purpose Report an error

  “The Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities add-on ("Multi-Geo") provides enterprise customers with the ability to expand their Microsoft 365 presence to multiple geographic regions ("Geographies") within a single existing Microsoft 365 Tenant.”

• Purchase channels Report an error

  “Customers must license Multi-Geo through the Enterprise Agreement, Web Direct, or CSP channels.”

• Services supported Report an error

  “Multi-Geo enables customers to manage and store in-scope data at a user level for Microsoft 365 Core Services including Exchange Online, SharePoint/OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.”

• Shared resources Report an error

  “In addition, Multi-Geo can be used with shared resources including SharePoint sites, Microsoft 365 Groups, Shared Mailboxes, eDiscovery, or Microsoft Teams teams.”

• EU data boundary exclusion Report an error

  “Customers who have purchased or used Multi-Geo Capabilities are not in scope for the EU Data Boundary, even if their tenant is listed as being in a country or region in the EU or EFTA.”

• Flex routing unavailable Report an error

  “The Flex routing setting will not be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for customers who have purchased or used Multi-Geo Capabilities.”

• Architecture Report an error

  “a Microsoft 365 Tenant consists of a Primary Provisioned Geography (where a customer's Microsoft 365 subscription was originally provisioned) and one or more Satellite Geography locations. In a Multi-Geo enabled Tenant, the information about Geography locations, groups, and user information, is mastered in Microsoft Entra ID.”

• Eligible base plans Report an error

  “Microsoft 365 F1, F3, E3, E5, or E7 (including SKUs without Microsoft Teams) Office 365 F3, E1, E3, or E5 (including SKUs without Microsoft Teams) Exchange Online Plan 1 or Plan 2 OneDrive Plan 1 or Plan 2 SharePoint Plan 1 or Plan 2 Microsoft Teams Enterprise, EEA, or Essentials”

• Small business education ineligible Report an error

  “Subscriptions for small businesses and education don't currently qualify for the Multi-Geo add-on, even if they contain elements of the preceding list.”

• Minimum license percentage Report an error

  “Enterprise Agreement customers must purchase a quantity of Multi-Geo licenses equal to or greater than 5% of their total eligible Microsoft 365 users.”

• Csp minimum Report an error

  “Similarly, CSP partners must purchase and assign a quantity of Multi-Geo licenses equal to or greater than 5% of their customers' total eligible Microsoft 365 users.”

• User level addon Report an error

  “Multi-Geo Capabilities in Microsoft 365 is a user-level add-on license. Customers need a license for each user that they want to host in a Satellite Geography location.”

• Shared resources no license Report an error

  “There are no Multi-Geo licenses specific to shared resources such as SharePoint Sites, Microsoft 365 Groups, Shared Mailboxes, or Microsoft Teams teams. If enough Multi-Geo user licenses have been acquired, then customers are eligible to use Multi-Geo with shared resources without limitation.”

• Available geographies Report an error

  “South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region APC Australia AUS Austria AUT Brazil BRA Canada CAN Chile CHL Denmark DNK France, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Germany EUR France FRA Germany DEU India IND Indonesia IDN Israel ISR Italy ITA Japan JPN Korea KOR Malaysia MYS Mexico MEX New Zealand NZL Norway NOR Poland POL Qatar QAT South Africa ZAF Spain ESP Sweden SWE Switzerland CHE Taiwan TWN United Arab Emirates ARE United Kingdom GBR United States NAM”

• Ediscovery premium requirement Report an error

  “To use a security filter for Italy, New Zealand, Spain, or Sweden in eDiscovery, you must have premium features in eDiscovery enabled.”

• Tenant configuration Report an error

  “Before you can start using Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo, Microsoft needs to configure your Tenant for Multi-Geo support. This one-time automatic configuration process is triggered after you order the Multi-Geo Capabilities in Microsoft 365 and the licenses show up in your Tenant.”

• Configuration time Report an error

  “The time required to configure a Tenant for Multi-Geo support varies from Tenant to Tenant, but most Tenants finish within a month after receipt of the feature licenses.”

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