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A Microsoft 365 administrator is planning to expand their organization's presence to a new country and needs to ensure that data residency requirements are met for their Microsoft 365 services. Specifically, they need to store Exchange Online and SharePoint Online data within the new country's geographical boundaries. Which Microsoft 365 feature allows them to specify data locations at a granular level?
- AMicrosoft Purview Compliance Manager
- BMicrosoft Entra ID Conditional Access
- CMicrosoft 365 Advanced Data Governance
- DMicrosoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities
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Correct answer: D. Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities
Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities allow multinational organizations to specify the geographic location where their Microsoft 365 user data (Exchange mailboxes and OneDrive/SharePoint sites) is stored, helping to meet data residency requirements.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Compliance Manager helps manage compliance posture and risks, but does not directly control data residency locations.
- B. Conditional Access is used for access control policies based on conditions, not for specifying data storage locations.
- C. Advanced Data Governance manages data retention, deletion, and classification, but not the physical location of data storage in different countries.
Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities
An add-on feature for Microsoft 365 that enables organizations to provision and store user data (Exchange and SharePoint/OneDrive) in specified geographic datacenter locations.
- Helps meet data residency requirements for multinational organizations.
- Available for Enterprise agreements with a minimum of 250 users.
- Administrators can assign users to specific geo-locations (satellite geographies).
Memory trick: Multi-Geo for 'multiple' locations.