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Taen keren
Steel Contributor
Jan 08, 2019

O365 - EU and China

Hi

Worldwide Org - based in EU - they have a Tenant - and are about to migrate all users personal files from fileservers to OD4B - (into the EU data center) 

 

However there's a subset of users that resides in China - and apparently there's some China regulations saying data "must" reside inside China - (china users connection to the EU Tenant/OneDrive are very slow)  so how do I solve this "architecture" in the best way possible?
Multi-geo is not an option as China aren't supported. 

 

  • Does the Company create a SharePoint Farm in China and let the users in China have their OD4B on that - what about collaboration on documents, ediscovery etc. etc. between EU/China users in those scenarios?

  • Does the company create a separate Tenant inside China and initiate the B2B capabilities in the EU tenant? 

How have others solved this? 

 

office 365
onedrive
security
sharepoint

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  • glory_ly's avatar
    glory_ly
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 30, 2025

    Hello, i also would like to add on the request as well. Currently, i have client who tenant register in Cambodia, and 1 user is working in China. Base on this, will possible to let user assign license in Cambodia or shall the client need to create new tenant in China and assign license to that 1 user. 

  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    MVP
    Jan 08, 2019

    My advice is to contact your Microsoft TAM and work with them to find the best solution. China has a separate "instance" of Office 365 ("operated by 21Vianet"), which is split from the global, multi-tenant instance and is missing a lot of features. So even if you do open a tenant there, the issues go beyond collaboration.

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