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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?
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Leakage of the user sensitive personal data in various saved Office formats
Os Windows 10
Softwares: Office 2021 Professional, Microsoft teams.
Hy I installed Microsoft Teams, and that's when the trouble started. After I deleted the program, the computer went crazy, and after loading the desktop, a small loading screen appeared again. The program added my account login information to my operating system account without my permission! And this is where the real problems began! Saving Microsoft Office formats like saving as web page, or normal Office documents, my Name was added tot he documents as Author, or last modified! I didn't set this up beforehand, I didn't consent to it, the system arbitrarily decided to do this. This is a hidden metadata, average usrers, they don't even know that such sensitive data is being saved. It's so secretive that only authorities or hackers would look for something like this, and anyone who publishes the document online is publishing sensitive information about themselves against their will. The other thing is, if someone is not logged into their Microsoft account, they will publish the account name chosen by the offline user, which is also not recommended.
To whom does Microsoft publicly disclose this data without users' permission? Because this data is hidden in the files. And I did not consent, nor did others, to files created or saved there leaking sensitive information about the computer users' data without my specific permission for all the users who downloading these files!
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.
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.
