Office 365 & SharePoint Connect 2019 Session

1. Paul Hunt - MVP
Exploring
Multi-Geo
Capabilities in
Office 365

3. Who am I?

4. Who am I?

5. What is this session about?

6. Region
-v-
Geo
-v-
Multi-Geo

7. Region -v- Geo -v- Multi-Geo
Azure is sold by REGION, with services deployed directly to that region.

8. Region -v- Geo -v- Multi-Geo
Office 365 is sold by GEO, with services spread across regional Data Centres

9. Region -v- Geo -v- Multi-Geo
Office 365 Multi-Geo starts with a PARENT tenant in a single GEO
Office 365 Multi-Geo services are created in CHILD tenants in other GEOs

10. Region -v- Geo -v- Multi-Geo

11. What drives the need for Multi-Geo?

12. How did we solve this before?
On-premises servers Hybrid architecture Multiple tenants

13. How did we solve this before?
On-premises servers Hybrid architecture Multiple tenants

14. What does Multi Geo enable?

15. for?

16. Multi-Geo does not make you GDPR
Compliant!
GDPR stipulates that data
may not be stored or
transferred through
countries that do not
enforce equivalent data
protections

17. Multi-Geo is not a performance enhancer

18. Key networking considerations
Service
Front Door
Service
Front Door
Datacenter
Microsoft GlobalNetwork
Customer
Network
Orlando, FL
Paris, France
Miami, FL
Paris,
France
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Branch Office
Branch Office
Service
Front Door
Data
ISP
Data
Data
ISP
ISP

19. Multi-Geo does not enable Data Centre
pinning.

20. for?

21. Multi-Geo Requirements

22. Multi-Geo Requirements
aka.ms/Multi-Geo
~$2 Per User / Per Month

23. Multi-Geo Process

24. Multi-Geo Process

33. Multi-Geo Process
??

34. Configuring Exchange for Multi-Geo

35. Configuring Exchange for Multi-Geo

37. PDL = Preferred Data Location

38. PDL = Preferred Data Location

39. PDL = Preferred Data Location

41. Multi-Geo aware?

42. Multi-Geo aware?

43. A Multi-Geo Organisation

44. Multi-Geo aware? - SEARCH

45. Multi-Geo aware? – eDiscovery (ish)

46. Multi-Geo aware? – eDiscovery (ish)

47. Geo location Code eDiscovery data location
Asia-Pacific APC Southeast or East Asia
datacenters
Australia AUS Southeast or East Asia
datacenters
Canada CAN US datacenters
Europe / Middle East / Africa EUR Europe datacenters
France FRA Europe datacenters
India IND Southeast or East Asia
datacenters
Japan JPN Southeast or East Asia
datacenters
Korea KOR Southeast or East Asia
datacenters
North America NAM US datacenters
South Africa ZAF (Coming soon)
United Arab Emirates ARE (Coming soon)
United Kingdom GBR Europe datacenters

48. Multi-Geo aware? – Managed Metadata
Term
Group
Geo Reach
TGMain1 NAM All sites in the tenant
TGMain2 NAM All sites in the tenant
TGNA1 NAM North America Only
Term
Group
Geo Reach
TGMain1 GBR All sites in the tenant
TGMain2 GBR All sites in the tenant
TGGBR1 GBR UK Geo Only
Term
Group
Geo Reach
TGMain1 APC All sites in the tenant
TGMain2 APC All sites in the tenant
TGAPC1 APC APAC Geo Only

49. Multi-Geo aware? – Managed Metadata
Term
Group
Geo Reach
TGMain1 NAM All sites in the tenant
TGMain2 NAM All sites in the tenant
TGNA1 NAM North America Only
Term
Group
Geo Reach
TGMain1 GBR All sites in the tenant
TGMain2 GBR All sites in the tenant
TGGBR1 GBR UK Geo Only
Term
Group
Geo Reach
TGMain1 APC All sites in the tenant
TGMain2 APC All sites in the tenant
TGAPC1 APC APAC Geo Only
X X
X

50. Multi-Geo aware? – Managed Metadata

52. Multi-Geo aware? – Content Types

53. Multi-Geo aware? – Content Types
Content
Type
Geo Reach
CType1 NAM All sites in the tenant
CType2 NAM All sites in the tenant
CTypeNA1 NAM North America Only
Content
Type
Geo Reach
CType1 GBR All sites in the tenant
CType2 GBR All sites in the tenant
CTypeGBR1 GBR UK Geo Only
Content
Type
Geo Reach
CType1 APC All sites in the tenant
CType2 APC All sites in the tenant
CTypeAPC1 APC APAC Geo Only

54. Multi-Geo aware? – Content Types

55. Everything else? Assume Parent!

57. When it’s needed for Data Residency!
X
X
✓

58. Multi-Geo Migration

59. Multi-Geo Migration

60. Multi-Geo Migration

61. Multi-Geo Migration

65. Where is my data?

66. Where is my data?

67. Where is my data?

68. Where is my data?

69. Handy Links

71. Thank you