{"id":8310,"date":"2021-07-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2021-08-16T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:16:12","slug":"notes-from-the-field-microsoft-365-multi-geo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/07\/notes-from-the-field-microsoft-365-multi-geo.htm","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the field: Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Generally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/trust-center\/privacy\/data-location\">Office 365\/Microsoft 365 data is located<\/a> in the datacentre region that relates to the country where the company&#8217;s registered address is. If your company is registered in Amsterdam, you&#8217;ll be in West Europe. If you&#8217;re registered in New York, you&#8217;ll be in a US datacentre somewhere. Registered in the UK&#8230; it depends on when your tenant was created but it could be in West Europe (if it&#8217;s an older tenant, like mine) or in the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For global organisations, this can be a challenge. If your data is on the other side of the world then you may find that latency adversely impacts access to resources. The Microsoft global network is designed to efficiently route traffic from local points of presence to Microsoft datacentres over fast links, but sometimes that&#8217;s not enough. In these cases, check out the Microsoft docs on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/microsoft-365\/enterprise\/network-planning-and-performance\">network planning and performance tuning for Microsoft 365<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other challenge relates to data residency and, as you can expect, there are some options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One would be to establish multiple tenants. But that means multiple Azure AD instances. Added to which, a DNS name can only be registered in one place. This means I can&#8217;t have users with @markwilson.co.uk addresses (for example) in more than one tenant. For a global organisation with everyone using an @company.com address for identity, email and instant messaging, that&#8217;s going be a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another option is <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/microsoft-365\/enterprise\/microsoft-365-multi-geo\">Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo<\/a>. This service allows the provisioning and storage of data at rest in the locations of your choice. 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