![]() ![]() If you are a multi-national, you may wish to hold employee data in the geography in which your employees are located. Unfortunately, this is not a service offered by Microsoft, and the only way to do this is via a manual migration exercise. We speak to customers who wish to move their tenants between geographies, either through corporate re-structuring, or that the tenant was originally set up in the wrong location. Latest locations available here Can I move my Microsoft tenant’s location? ![]() Within the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre, click on your organisational name and the information is located towards the bottom of the page under “Data Location”. How do I know where my data sits currently? On a side note, with the iOS app being retired and increased functionality in PowerPoint, we can’t see Sway being around for the long term which might make you consider even offering this service to your users? How do I ensure my tenant is in a particular location?ĭuring the Microsoft 365 sign up process, ensure you select “United Kingdom” in the ‘Usage Location’ field – this will ensure your data sits in UK datacentres. Microsoft Swayīuilt from the ground up by Microsoft and released to the world in 2015, data created in Sway sits only in Microsoft’s US datacentres. For many years post-acquisition it was on AWS (Amazon Web Services) but it now sits in Microsoft’s European datacentres. Yammerĭata for Microsoft’s US$1bn acquisition back in 2009, Yammer, was located in the USA. **We have expanded on Azure Active Directory and the services delivered by Azure Active Directory below.Įssentially, all core data for a UK business is stored in the UK datacentres, yet there are some exceptions which we discuss below. *Tenants with 500 users or less will be onboarded with Microsoft Teams and will not have access to Skype for Business. Specifically, Microsoft 365 services sit as follows, note that data sits across two datacentres for redundancy: Service When registering your Microsoft 365 tenant, Microsoft will place your tenant within the appropriate Geolocation based on the usage address that you are using during the registration. Various services from Microsoft use different physical locations but these will typically be grouped under one Geolocation – which for us is “United Kingdom”.ĭatacentres for the UK are in Durham, London, and Cardiff. You may be concerned about the data residency of your information in this piece I explore where Microsoft stores your Office 365 data.
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