Forum Discussion
Forms data storage
Does Microsoft have future plans to store data created in Forms in the data centre's closest to where the Form originated example. Australia? As Country's become more risk adverse to storing data...
Hi. I googled this today and found that MS now says that Forms data is stored in Australia.
"For customers in Australia, Microsoft Forms customer data will be stored at rest in Australia for all new tenants using Forms and existing tenants that have not previously used Forms."
(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/data-storage-for-microsoft-forms-97a34e2e-98e1-4dc2-b6b4-7a8444cb1dc3)
However, the statement is conditional, and leaves a lot of ambiguity for us existing tenants who HAVE used Forms. Is our data still in the US? If we create new Forms where does the data go? What bout new submissions for existing forms? And what does 'previously' mean - previous to when?
Is there someone at MS listening to this who can answer these questions (and maybe make sure that online documentation is actually helpful in this case?)
"For customers in Australia, Microsoft Forms customer data will be stored at rest in Australia for all new tenants using Forms and existing tenants that have not previously used Forms."
(https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/data-storage-for-microsoft-forms-97a34e2e-98e1-4dc2-b6b4-7a8444cb1dc3)
However, the statement is conditional, and leaves a lot of ambiguity for us existing tenants who HAVE used Forms. Is our data still in the US? If we create new Forms where does the data go? What bout new submissions for existing forms? And what does 'previously' mean - previous to when?
Is there someone at MS listening to this who can answer these questions (and maybe make sure that online documentation is actually helpful in this case?)
- I would also like clarity around this statement.
