Understanding Office 365 Multi-Geo

• Office 365 Multi-Geo can store user data across multiple regions to help meet local data residency requirements.
• Only a limited set of Office 365 services support Multi-Geo.
• Multi-Geo requires licensing for every user of the service and additional management challenges.

Office 365 Multi-Geo enables an organization to store key types of Office 365 data in a specific region for each user. The feature allows a multinational organization to operate as a single connected organization while complying with jurisdictional regulations, as well as controlling functions of features such as eDiscovery and data loss prevention (DLP) on a per-region basis. However, the feature requires licensing a minimum number of users to activate it and incurs a monthly per-user charge. Although Microsoft frequently refers to the feature as Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo, this is a misnomer, as Multi-Geo is almost exclusively a feature of Office 365 and is only supported by a limited set of Office 365 services.