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Ivan54
Aug 30, 2017Bronze Contributor
Help with SP and ODfB Geo Locations and tracert explanation
Hi, I could use some help with explaining a specific tracert to <tenant>.sharepoint.com.
Our SharePoint tenant is located in the Europe data region. This can be verified by visiting https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/companyprofile where it says Europe as a location for SharePoint.
But when I ping<tenant>.sharepoint.com or <tenant>-my.sharepoint.com it points to
13.107.6.151
When I run a geolocation trace by IP (e.g. via https://www.iplocation.net/) this IP is located in Redmond, USA.
C:\Users\ivan.unger>tracert iakw-my.sharepoint.com tracert b-0001.b-msedge.net [13.107.6.151] über maximal 30 Hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms <interal gateway> 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms <isp gateway> 3 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms asr2.interx.onstage.at [185.99.82.77] 4 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms asr1.interx.onstage.at [185.99.82.45] 5 2 ms 3 ms 1 ms asr1.eshelter.onstage.at [185.99.82.9] 6 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms xe-9-1-0-2405.bar1.vienna1.level3.net [212.73.203.9] 7 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms microsoft-level3-10g.vienna1.level3.net [4.68.73.142] 8 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 9 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 10 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 11 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 12 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 13.107.6.151
Now, when I run the same procedure on outlook.office365.com I get to outlook-emeacenter.office365.com which points to 40.101.55.50 and this IP is "correctly" located in Austria, where a disclosed Microsoft Datacenter for Exchange is hosted.
Why does the SharePoint tracert not point to any of the other 3 european (Netherlands, Ireland or Finland) datacenters?
- Ivan54Bronze Contributor
I could really use someone elses input on this matter. Maybe I'm missing something.
I've been referenced this page http://o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net by Microsoft support, which I already knew. The page mentions this as a geo location for the EMEA Region:
United StatesAzure Active DirectoryOffice 365- Sway
- Yammer
No word on SharePoint for the US. So why does my tenant resolve and tracert to Redmond, USA? Even my Palo Alto firewall indicates a huge amount of traffic to this IP address, so I'm sure can't be just DNS queries or small stuff.