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Darren Carr
Copper Contributor
Aug 11, 2017

Distributed O365 architecture

Hi,   We are a very large multi-national organisation with a presence in over 100 countries globally. Over the last few years we have slowly begun the migration to Azure for O365 (Sharepoint Online...
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  • Wictor Wilen's avatar
    Wictor Wilen
    Aug 11, 2017

    There's only a single tenancy option in Office 365. However services such as Skype and Exchange already use data centers close to the end users (if configured) and this is also coming to OneDrive shortly, see "Multi Geo Private Preview" in the Office 365 roadmap: https://products.office.com/en-US/business/office-365-roadmap 

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Daniel TSHIN
Brass Contributor
May 07, 2018

Along this line - are there any details and guidance regarding the throughput and bandwidth usage of SharePoint Online/OneDrive file sync - when SPO/OneDrive is implemented as a replacement for network shared drives. We want to see the effect on WAN performance for a setup of 100+ workstations at an office location (on a LAN) that are sync'ing to SPO/OneDrive libraries. For example, one file is updated, but then it needs to be sync'd back down to all of the "subscribers". What is the difference (network performance data and user experience) when the file updated is pushed to clients. Then we would like to know what are the possible considerations for maximizing WAN and LAN performance.

We, too are a large multi-national organization with presence in ~170 countries. There are doubts on the ability for SPO/OneDrive to have a similar performance and user experience as network shared drives, but we really need to move our documents to the cloud. Any detailed engineering information would be helpful.

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