Coming up we look at Multi-Geo capabilities In Office 365
which allows you to determine, where you data resides within a single Office 365 tenant
across multiple regions and countries.
Now in the past, if you had data residency needs
you might have solved it by setting up various data silos in the cloud or in on-premises.
Current hybrid solutions in Office 365 enables a base set of collaboration experiences
like document sharing, presence and email.
But you are not able to take advantage of more intelligent capabilities
such as search, content discovery that use Office graph signals
to aggregate your content wherever it may live.
Multi-Geo capabilities in OneDrive, SharePoint and Exhange services in Office 365 solve this
by allowing you to determine
where individual users and their data reside.
And importantly, they give your users the ability to collaborate using modern experiences
such as real time co-authoring with others wherever they are in a compliant and secure way.
Let me start by showing you how you can enable multiple data locations for your Office 365 tenant
for OneDrive and SharePoint in two steps.
The first thing you want to do is to set up your satellite location for your tenant.
Let's say your tenant is currently located in Norh America
which is abbreviated to NAM.
And you want to extend that to Europe and Australia in order to meet your data residency needs.
Using the Azure Active directory PowerShell module,
you can run the simple commandlet GetMsolCompanyAllowedDataLocation
as you can see in the screen here.
And it shows me that currently the tenant is located in NAM, which is North America.
Now I want to add addtional Geo locations, Europe to my tenant.
I can run a simple commandlet Set-MsolCompanyAllowedDataLocation
with the parameters ServiceType Sharepoint
because that's the services I want to add.
The location is EUR which is Europe that I would like to add.
And then also the InitialDomain of ContosoEnergyEUR
which will be the URL namespace for my new geo.
So now when i run the Get-MsolCompanyAllowedDataLocation commandlet
it shows me that the tenant has two locations.
Both are North America and Europe.
Now let's say I want to add the third location, Australia.
Again I run the same simple commandlet
Set-MsolCompanyAllowedDataLocation.
But this time as you see, the location I'm specifying is AUS for Australia.
And the URL namespace for that geo is
my company name and abbreviated with the location name.
That is ContosoEnergyAUS.
And now when I run the Get-MsolCompanyAlloweDataLocaiton
I see that there are three locations now attached to my tenant.
North America, Europe and Australia.
As you can see in the OneDrive Admin center now, the tenant is extended to Australia
and Europe in addition to it's North American location.
When I initially set the service type as SharePoint,
It automatically also extends the service OneDrive for this tenant.
That's the reason now I'm able to now see
Mutliple geo locations even for my OneDrive admin center as well.
The next step is to assign users to your new location.
Whether these are new or existing users,
You will want to set the following attribute preferred data location
with the set-MsolUser commandlet.
Here as you can see, I'm adding Melissa with the paramerter user principal name
to the preferred data location of Europe.
And once I have set this commandlet, I can do a get just to prove to you
that it has been set to a Europe location
doing a Get-MsolUser on the user, Melissa
will return to me that her preferred data location is set to EUR.
This confirms that Melissa is assigned to the European location.
Of course, if you are sychronizing your on-premises directory,
you can use the Azure Active Directory Connect tool
to set this value.
And you can learn about this at the link below.
For new users, like Melissa,
Once you set this preferred data location property to Europe,
her Exchange mailbox and OneDrive will be set up in a European location.
This concludes the two steps to setup Multi-Geo.
For users with existing OneDrives, there is one additional step.
You can use the SharePoint PowerShell module
with the new commandlet Start-SPOUserAndContentMove
as you can see in this screen here.
To trigger a move of existing users OneDrive to their new location.
In this commandlet, you provide user principal name parameter
which determines which user you want to move to the new Geo location.
With the destination data location parameter,
you determine which Geo you want them to move to.
Here you will select and in the case I've selected EUR
because that is one of the newly created satellite Geo for my tenant.
So, now that the Multi-Geo is set up, let me show you modern productivity experiences
that are available to users in this Multi-Geo enabled tenancy.
Now users in satellite locations can get the same rich experiences as users in your central location.
For example, here I am logged in as Melissa, who is a satellite user.
I'm logged into the SharePoint home experience
and I'm going to do a quick search.
let's say for the term Energy
because this is a Contoso energy tenant.
And when I do the search,
it;s going to show me the aggregated results from across the Geos.
The first results that I see here is from a team site hosted in a European location.
You can see that by referring to the URL on this result.
If I scroll down, there are also results from other team sites in North America.
For example, here are the search results that shows a news article
coming from the team site in North America.
And also from my own OneDrive hosted in Europe, I have search results as well.
This shows you that I get a single aggregated view of results across my enterprise
even though my home Geo is Europe.
Now Delve goes even further by surfacing the content trending around me
in my organization regardless of what Geo location that content is hosted in
and which Geo user shared that content with me.
For example, as a European user, Melissa, I can see relevant document signals.
If I scroll down here, the Bright Dreams North America site.
As for this Wind Energy team site which is in a European Geo location.
And also from my own OneDrive, this is hosted in a European location.
So as you can see, the signals are not only coming from a European location,
but also from other satellite locations that my tenant has been extended to.
These modern productivity experiences are made possible
without compromising your data residency needs.
Even if Melissa in Europe, browses to another OneDrive host location in North America,
the service is intelligent enough to redirect her
to the European location which is her home Geo
and that's where her OneDrive is hosted.
You can see it by referring to the url that she now got redirected back to
where her OneDrive has been hosted.
I just showed you the browser experience.
The experience is also seamless to the user in the Office client,
Outlook client, OneDrive sync client, and the mobile clients.
The experience is the same no matter the location of user.
And users don't need to remember the site of OneDrive URLs
or mail server names to access their resources.
Lastly, let me show you what the management experience is like for a Multi-Geo tenant.
Each Geo will have it's own URL and SharePoint and OneDrive admin centers
to manage the sites and OneDrives in that Geo.
Specific sharing policiies and sites can be configured by admins
in each Geo location.
Mailbox recipient rules and other rules can be configured from the Exchange admin center.
You can also configure Geo location tailored data loss prevention policies
and view the unified auditing showing the activities that are done by users
across the Geos in the Security and Compliance Center.
Equally, you can configure the password policy and licenses in the Office 365 admin portal.
Here I am selecting the user Melissa
who is a European home user.
And I can change her product licenses at the global enterprise level.
So that was a quick overview of multi geo capabilities in Office 365.
Exchange and OneDrive Multi-Geo is available for preview now.
Check out the link below and contact your Microsoft admin team for details.
Thank you for Watching.
Microsoft mechanics.
www.microsoft.com/mechanics.