- Coming up, I will introduce you to Multi-Geo Capabilities
in Office 365 now generally available.
And if you haven't looked Multi-Geo since the preview,
I will point out some updates along the way.
If you are a multinational organization,
Multi-Geo in Office 365 is designed to help you
to control where your data resides at a point user level,
based on your global data location and compliance needs.
It means that you've no longer need to stand up.
SharePoint, mail and file servers on premises
in specific regions around the world,
and you can comfortably move to their cloud pinpointing
where each user and their data will reside geographically.
Equally, if you are altering the cloud,
you can flexibly move users and their data across the Geos,
all within a single global tenant.
And set policies for security and compliance
are a global or regional level.
For your users, this also means less information silos
because everything is in a single tenant
your users get a unified set of experiences
from file sharing to unified search and easy access
from mobile devices as well.
Let me start by showing you how easy it is
to extend your Office 365 tenant
to multiple data locations in two simple steps.
Here we are setting up Multi-Geo for OneDrive.
As you can see in this global map,
you can choose your satellite data locations
from the list of supported Geos.
The Geo location can be a region or a country.
And we are continually extending our coverage
as we expand our datacenter footprint for Office 365.
If you would like more detail on our datacenter locations,
you can learn more at the link shown
and the drill down into the actual data center locations.
Here, I will choose Asia-Pacific.
And if I scroll, you will see
these four services are available.
Now let's dive into adding a satellite Geo to your tenant.
Let's say, your tenant is currently located
in North America, which is abbreviated to an AM.
And you want your tenant to be extended to Japan
to meet your data residency needs there.
You select the Manage Locations option
in the OneDrive Admin Center,
and then select desired satellite data locations
that you want to add, in this case Japan.
Next, in the domain name field,
I have chosen our company name with the suffix
of the satellite location, ContosoEnergyJPN.
This will be the URL namespace for my new Geo.
ContosoEnergyJPN.SharePoint.com will be the root URL
and ContosoEnergyJPN-my.SharePoint.com
will be URL for OneDrives.
Note that each Geo has a unique URL.
Unique URLs for Geo allow you to immediately know
which Geo a specific user's OneDrive
or where a group site is located.
This is going to take some time
and the satellite session will be set up soon.
Now, if down the line you want to add
additional satellite Geos, just run the same wizard.
Select your Geo. It's that simple.
Equally, we will make a wizard experience available,
if you decide that want to remove the Geo location.
To show you that we have been successful in adding Japan
as a location, if we go to our OneDrive Admin Center,
you will see that our tenant includes Japan
among the list of locations.
Next, let me show you how to assign users
to their Geo location in Japan.
Whether these are new or existing users,
you will want to set the following attribute
prefered data relocation.
With the "Set-MsolUser" commandlet,
here I am adding "Naoki" to the Japan location.
And to validate that Naoki is assigned to Japan,
you can run "Get-MsolUser" commandlet
and I have added a second pipe with display name
and preferred data location, and this will return
Naoki's display name and his current location
which is successfully set to Japan.
The last thing I will do is to enumerate
the groups of users and their locations
that we will be seeing throughout this demonstration.
Given that many of you will have
large volumes of user accounts,
synchronizing from on premises directory,
you can also use the familiar
Action Active Directory Connect Tool to set this
preferred data location value.
You can learn more about
Azure Active Directory Connect Tool at the link below.
For new users, like Naoki,
once you set the preferred location property to Japan,
their Exchange mailbox and OneDrive will be set up in Japan.
Now for users with existing OneDrives,
there is one additional step.
You can use the SharePoint PowerShell module
with the new commandlet "Start-SPOUserAndContentMove"
to move the user's OneDrive to new Geo location.
Here for example, we only need
the user's user principal name
and the location that we want to move them to.
By the way, all Multi-Geo activities by admins are logged
and audited for future review as well.
With Multi-Geo set up, users in satellite locations
now can get the same rich experiences
as users in your central location.
The experience for them is seamless
while you have full control over where their data resides.
Last time on Microsoft Mechanics, I showed you
the unified search and content discovery experience
for satellite users.
Let me now show you how we have made
productivity experiences like Shared with Me view
in OneDrive and Free/Busy Calendar in Outlook
seamless across devices.
Let me first show you
the Shared with Me experience in OneDrive on the desktop.
Here, I am logged in as Melissa, an European satellite user.
I have got all my OneDrive files,
and I can see all the files shared with me
by my colleagues from around the world.
I can see the Free/Busy Calendar experience
for the international colleagues
that I work within my timezone from Amsterdam.
And I can schedule a meeting with them
no matter where they are located.
These experiences extend to other apps in Office 365
that use OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange
at the foundation.
And if I'm on-the-go,
the same great experience is available.
Not just in my browser, but I can enjoy rich mobile apps
experiences by simply signing in with my email address
from searching for content, sites,
and setting up meetings my colleagues from around the world.
As you saw, users don't need to remember
the site or OneDrive URLs or mail server names
to access their resources.
It just works.
And as an admin, you can also apply site-specific policies
to protect users and their information.
For example, you can configure a site-specific policy
to limit access from unmanaged devices.
Here, I have put a specific site
used by the legal team Europe.
And I want to check the conditional access policy.
When I run it, I will see allow limited access
which allows full access to managed devices
and limited access to unmanaged devices.
Now, as Melissa, when I browsed to the same
European Legal Site from an unmanaged device,
like a kiosk or my personal computer,
I am informed that my experience is limited with no option
to download, print and sync from this device.
So this leads to the last thing that I want to show you,
the admin management experience.
Let me show you what the management experience is like
for a Multi-Geo Tenant.
Each Geo will have its own URL, as you can see here
indicated by APC for Asia-Pacific.
Each Geo also has its own OneDrive Admin Center
which we are in now, and a SharePoint Admin Center.
This way, we can manage the OneDrives and sites
in that particular Geo.
As a global admin, Multi-Geo satellite user licenses
are managed from the single Office 365 Admin Portal.
Equally, you can configure data loss prevention policies
tailored for specific OneDrives of sites
through the Security and Compliance Center.
For example, here is the US Financial
Data Loss Prevention Policy, configured for
specific users and specific sites
in Central North America location.
Lastly, eDiscovery manager roles can also be configured,
defined by Geo through the Security and Compliance Center.
So, that was a quick introduction
inclusive of the latest updates
to Multi-Geo Capabilities in Office 365.
Exchange and OneDrive Multi-Geo is generally available now.
To learn more, check out the link below and
contact your Microsoft Account Team.
Thanks for watching.