Office 365 available in South Africa Datacentres

Microsoft South Africa has just announced over Twitter the availability of Office 365 on its Local Datacentres.

The consequences of this for New Customers:

All organisations with a South African Address, creating a new Office 365 tenant, will be provisioned within the South African datacentres.

For existing customers:

you can choose to have Microsoft move your tenant to South Africa. If want to move your Office 365 tenant to the South African datacentres you will need to join the the MOVE program, http://aka.ms/move

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