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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. |
The following are the purchasing rules for the Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo add-on licenses:
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. |
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
NOTE For more information on the Microsoft 365 services/workloads that support Multi-Geo, see the following Microsoft articles: |