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Office 365 data
Hi there,
The answer to this is to use the on-premises versions of the Microsoft products that are available to you if you want to host this yourself in your own comms room or data centers.
Office 365 is hosted in Microsoft Data Centers in standard or dedicated environments for customers. There is some fluidity like others have stated where Hybrid models allow on-premises applications to utilise the cloud such as Exchange Hybrid, Skype for Business Hybird, SharePoint Hybrid, with ancillary support with functions such as AADConnect for directory syncronisation and hybrid Azure AD join - but there isn't the solution for what you are looking for.
By all means utilise these hybrid modes and you can even keep file server data on-premises and protected with Azure Information Protection utilising the AIP scanner, and you can even utilise Intune to protect on-premises Exchange. There's also functionality in certain Office 365 licensing where you get on-premises CALs as part of the licensing arrangements.
But to re-iterate; what you are asking in your specific scenario question isn't possible. You can't deploy Office 365 to your own hardware in your own location.
Take care,
Oliver
Hello Cian/Nuno,
Thanks for the response.
Based on the links (https://products.office.com/EN-MY/where-is-your-data-located?ms.officeurl=datamaps&geo=AsiaPacific#AsiaPacific) Since my organization resides in Malaysia, then the data will be hosted in Malaysia as well right?
If you go down on the page you will see what services resides on each datacenter.
Hi Nuno,
Thanks for the response. It seems only Exchange can be hosted in my country.
In that case, can i use my on-premise server for other service (Skype, Sharepoint) instead of hosted in Office 365 data centers.
Regards
Great advice from Nuno, I'd personally say avoid hosting workloads unless you're invested already on-premise and there are big reasons not to migrate. If performance is a concern, for example, I think you find it's mostly a non-issue if best practices are adopted.
Anyway, if you are looking further at on-premise options perhaps read up on CAL Equivalent Licenses basically it means you can potentially save some money from what I gather by leveraging your Office 365 licences for certain on-premise workloads including SharePoint and Skype for Business Server - https://www.neroblanco.co.uk/2017/05/leveraging-microsoft-online-subscriptions-premises/.
Hello Cian,
The thing is our organization has our own datacenter. Our organization plan to install the application (Skype Server, Sharepoint Server, Exchange server) through our virtual network and host the data at the datacenter.
Perhaps we can deploy a hybrid environment for each of the Microsoft product suites to achieve this.
Regards
Yes you can but keep in mind that Microsoft Datacenters has site resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity based on your region, and your data could be replicated to have those features.
You to have the certifications on datacenter, and all resilience, SR and BC could be very expensive just to have those on-premises.
Just keep in mind that Microsoft is contÃnuos expanding their infrastructure and you have best ROI using Office 365.
