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Usage Location
As far as I know, the usage location specifies the country of the user. Based on that location, you sometimes can/can't use certain parts of your license (Microsoft 365 E3 for example) Your data is in the region in which your tenant is, West Europe in my case, and all your Exchange/OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint etc. data is stored in that region. It will not move to America for example if you change the location of a user to America. It can however impact the PSTN/Calling functions, restrictions in configuring telephone and emergency phone numbers. And it will have a latency aspect in downloading files/emails, but I don't think it will have a big impact on Teams meetings. Distance is always a thing of course, but if they users are in a Japan office they could use Express Route connections to connect to Teams in US across the Microsoft backbone.
Harm_Veenstra Is there any difference between "Preferred data location" and "Usage location" Attributes. I've configured Multi-Geo for one our client, changed "Preferred data location" attribute but usage location is still same as the tenant region. Do we need to change it as well ?
- Preferred data location takes preference, I guess, for data if I read https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/plan-for-multi-geo?view=o365-worldwide. I don't have any real-life experience with that myself.