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Office 365 tenant location
Hi I work for a company in the Cayman Islands and we have our Office 365 data currently stored in the US. We would like to move this to the UK so that we are covered by GDPR. I am aware that we c...
You'll have to talk to Microsoft to see if they will allow you to move tenants between datacenter regions (US to UK). If not, you can create a new tenant in the UK and move data from the old to the new tenant. This is quite an undertaking and requires detailed planning, but there is support from ISVs to help with tenant to tenant migration tools (like Quest and BitTitan).
- I'd talk to Microsoft about this as I suspect their terms of business differ from country to country.
- As far as I am aware the request period is closed for a tenant migration to another region so no more migrations are possible anymore.
The only way is to create a new tenant and choose the target region throughout the country. For example, if the country of the Tenant is set to Germany the tenant will be created in the Germany DCs.
Feel free to reach out if further assistance is needed
Kind regards
Spikar
