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Maruthi Gadde
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Mar 05, 2019

Using Office 365 while Travelling to China or having a Regional office in China

I am looking for Guidance for Multinational companies having Regional offices in China. I am aware that the Office 365 in China is managed by 21Vianet. If a multinational organization (assume base ...
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Mar 05, 2019
My understanding is that if your Office 365 tenant is not in China, access to all the services will be affected and you will need a way (the VPN can be an option) to be able to bypass connection restrictions and access to Office 365 services
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    Andreas Rohr
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 12, 2019

    jcgonzalezmartinNo this is not correct. You can access Azure/Office365 in China, BUT there are some Laws, that you have to store local Data in mainland China.

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    Maruthi Gadde
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 06, 2019

    Thank you for your response, is there a public article from Microsoft with details on what will work vs not work..  What is the work around for this...