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Overview

This article covers the Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo add-on license for customers that wish to expand their Microsoft 365 presence to multiple regions or countries within an existing Microsoft 365 tenant while meeting data residency requirements.  Once configured, Multi-Geo allows you to relocate a user’s data to a specific Microsoft regional datacenter (known as a satellite geography location).

NOTE

Currently, the relocated user data is limited to a user's mailbox, OneDrive, and Teams chat data.

There are no Multi-Geo licenses specific to shared resources such as SharePoint Sites, Microsoft 365 Groups, or Microsoft Teams teams.  If enough Multi-Geo user licenses have been acquired, then you become eligible to use Multi-Geo with shared resources without limitation.  However, Microsoft has not documented the license threshold for including shared resources.

For more information, see Microsoft's article on Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo.


Purchasing Options

The following are the purchasing rules for the Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo add-on licenses:

  • Your Microsoft 365 tenant must be located in the United States.  If your Microsoft 365 tenant is not in the US, you must transact with a CSP partner that does business in your location.
  • Microsoft 365 Business (SMB) base subscription are not eligible for Multi-Geo.
  • You must purchase a license for each user account that will have its data relocated to another regional datacenter.
  • You must purchase a 1-year commitment.  Monthly commitments are not available.
  • You must purchase a minimum 5% of your eligible base subscriptions.  For example:
    • If you have 200 base subscription licenses, you must purchase 10 or more Multi-Geo licenses (5% of 200).
    • If you have 1,000 base subscription licenses, you must purchase 50 or more Multi-Geo licenses (5% of 1,000)
  • Eligible base subscriptions for the Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo license are the following:
    • Microsoft 365 F1, F3, E3, or E5
    • Office 365 F3, E1, E3, or E5
    • Exchange Online Plan 1 or Plan 2
    • OneDrive for Business Plan 1 or Plan 2
    • SharePoint Online Plan 1 or Plan 2

IMPORTANT

After adding the Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo licenses to your tenant, it can can take Microsoft's automated provisioning process up to one month for your tenant to be configured and ready for setting up your multi-geo configuration.

For more information, see Microsoft's article on Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo.


Getting Started with Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo

Before you can start using Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo, Microsoft needs to configure your 365 tenant for Multi-Geo support.  This one-time automatic configuration process is triggered after the Multi-Geo licenses are added to your 365 tenant, and can take a month or more to complete. 

You will receive workload-specific notifications in your Microsoft 365 message center when each workload has been configured for Multi-Geo, and then you can begin configuring and using the Multi-Geo capabilities.

Microsoft's Deployment Articles for Multi-Geo

  1. Plan Your Multi-Geo Environment

  2. Configure your 365 Tenant for Multi-Geo

  3. Administering a Multi-Geo Environment

  4. Set Up Search

  5. How Your Users Will Experience the Environment

NOTE

For more information on the Microsoft 365 services/workloads that support Multi-Geo, see the following Microsoft articles:








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