New user provisioning and M365 Multi-Geo

[Ketzpatel]

We recently purchased multi-geo licenses and also registered 6 different geo locations in SPO and everything appears to be working. We only assign multi-geo licenses to one PDL location users, but we add PDL attribute for all users now but not everyone is licensed for multi-geo. What I started noticing is when new hire accounts are created, their MBX and OneDrive locations are now provisioned at satellite location without assigning multi-geo licenses to those user accounts.

Is this something in error? I know multi-geo license is required for new users and to move existing users OD and mailbox.

[#2]

Microsoft does not always enforce licensing requirements in code, so certain functionalities work just fine even without assigning a "required" license. Which of course is not to say you can just use the feature without ensuring sufficient licenses have been procured.

[#3]

Thanks Vasil.

We just noticed this behavior and there is no way to stop except we stopp populating PDL values to user account in on-prem AD. MS started provisioning OD sites for NH to their PDL locations without a required license.