#Does AvePoint Online Services Support Microsoft 365 Tenants with Multi-Geo Capabilities?

With Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo, your organization can expand its Microsoft 365 presence to multiple geographic regions and/or countries within your existing tenant. You can provision and store data at rest in the geo locations that you've chosen to meet data residency requirements, and at the same time, unlock your global rollout of modern productivity experiences to your workforce.

If your Microsoft 365 tenant has , you can pair your multi-geo tenant with a similar subscription for AvePoint Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365.

*Note: While you can use a standard AvePoint Cloud Backup for a Microsoft 365 subscription to support a multi-geo Microsoft 365 tenant with no changes, all data will be protected and stored centrally in a single AvePoint Online Services tenant. To take advantage of our global network, you will need to purchase a subscription from AvePoint to leverage our multi-geo infrastructure described below.

Since your tenant will be supported by AvePoint Online Services data centers around the world, we want to make sure that you are familiar with which data centers will be supporting you.

Start by going to Administration > Data center mappings to configure mappings between the geo locations in your Microsoft 365 tenant and the data centers supported in AvePoint Online Services. For more information, refer to Manage Data Center Mappings.

*Note: The saved mappings cannot be changed, and they will be used to create boundaries between different geo locations in your environment.

Next, in Auto discovery, you‘ll want to ensure you’re using the filters provided in the advanced scan mode to separate mailboxes, OneDrives, sites, and other Microsoft 365 content by their preferred data locations. We’ll use these boundaries to help distribute the management for each of these containers around the world. For more information, refer to Auto Discovery for Microsoft 365.

Finally, you can create separate administrators for each geo location using our delegated administration in User management, which maintains segregation among geo locations. For more information, refer to Manage Users.