General Availability of Multi-Geo Capabilities in SharePoint Online and Office 365 Groups

Microsoft announced last Thursday the general availability for Muli-Geo for SharePoint Online and Office 365 groups:

What is Multi-Geo?

By default, Office 365 resources for your users are located in the same geo as your Azure AD tenant when you select the country when you subscribe for Office 365. For example, if your tenant is located in North America, then the users’ Exchange mailboxes are also located in North America. For a multinational organization, this might not be optimal.

By setting the attribute preferredDataLocation, you can define a user’s geo. You can have the user’s Office 365 resources, such as the mailbox and OneDrive, in the same geo as the user, and still have one tenant for your entire organization.

So Microsoft introduced a way that you can decide where you data can reside and you can set the location using simple interface.

Note:
Multi-Geo is currently available to customers with a minimum of 2,500 Office 365 Services subscriptions. Please talk to your Microsoft representative for details.

Setting up and managing Multi-Geo is now available through the SharePoint admin center.  Simply click ‘Add location’ and select the needed satellite geo and then pick a namespace URL. New sites created by users are automatically created in the geo where their PreferredDataLocation (PDL) was established.