Data Residency for Other Microsoft 365 Services

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02/29/2024

Note

Unless otherwise stated in the Microsoft Product Terms, the following Microsoft 365 services do not have specific commitments for data residency. You can use the following guidance to determine where your data may be provisioned at this time.

Use the following guidance to determine where your data is located. Reference your tenant Default Geography.

Microsoft Entra ID

Refer to Microsoft Entra Data Locations.

Forms

Tenants in EU member Countries/regions maintain data in Macro Region Geography 1 – EMEA. All other tenants have customer data stored in the United States, except Australia. For customers in Australia, Microsoft Forms customer data is stored at rest in Australia for all new tenants using Forms and existing tenants that haven't previously used Forms.

Intune

Refer to endpoint.microsoft.com, Tenant Administration | Tenant Status for existing tenants. If you don't have an existing tenant, create a trial tenant and provision Intune. Microsoft won't store Intune customer data at rest outside the stated geo, except if:

It's necessary for Microsoft to provide customer support, troubleshoot the service, or comply with legal requirements.
The customer configures an account to enable such storage of customer data, including by using the following:
Features that are designed to operate globally, such as Content Delivery Network (CDN), which provides a global caching service and stores customer data at edge locations around the world.
If you're using the Remote Help feature, the Helper and Sharer's information might be sent outside of the stated Geo for 48 hours.
For Microsoft Entra ID: Refer to Microsoft Entra Data Locations.
Preview, beta, or other prerelease services, which typically store customer data in the United States but might store it globally. Regardless, Microsoft doesn't control or limit the Geo from which customers or their end users might access customer data. Similarly, where customer data in other services is subsequently integrated into Intune, the originating customer data will continue to be stored subject to the other service's own Geo commitments (if any); only the copy of the customer data integrated into Intune will be stored in the stated Geo for Intune.

Office for Mobile

Customer data for this service comes from other services, like Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. There's no customer data stored outside of those services with the exception of the mobile device.

OneNote Services

OneNote stores customer data in OneDrive. It does however have an API that can cause persistent caches to be made outside of the Geography where OneDrive stores customer data.

Planner

See the Static data location information for select workloads section.

Power Apps for Microsoft 365

Refer to Dynamics 365 availability and data locations | Microsoft Learn.

Stream

You can find this information from the "?" option in the Stream UI, if you have it running and then click on "About Microsoft Stream" and see where your data is stored. If needed, create a trial tenant.

Viva Glint

The data region for Viva Glint is determined by the default geography of the tenant, not individual users, and is stored in US or EU data centers based on central tenant location.

Viva Goals

Summary

Service documentation: Introduction to Microsoft Viva Goals

Capability summary: Microsoft Viva Goals is a goal-alignment solution that connects teams to your organization’s strategic priorities, unites them around your mission and purpose, and drives business results. Viva Goals enables individuals and companies to organize and track their goals through “Objectives and Key Results” (OKRs). Viva Goals immerses everyone in the company’s purpose and top priorities and creates a culture of engaged employees focused on achieving common goals.

Data Residency Available

Starting December 5, 2022, Viva Goals Customer Data for new tenants in the European Union Data Boundary (EUDB) and in the United Kingdom will be stored in data centers located in the EU. All other tenants will have their Viva Goals Customer Data stored in data centers located in the United States. Tenants aren't provided with a choice for the specific deployment region for data storage.

To be considered a tenant in the EUDB:

The tenant must have a default geography in a EUDB country or select a country in EUDB country as their residence during free trial sign-up; and
The tenant must not purchase a Multi-Geo offering

Migration

Customers based in EU and UK who signed up for Viva Goals prior to December 5, 2022, have now been migrated to EU data centers.

Viva Insights – Advanced, Mgr, Leader

See the Static data location information for select workloads section. The data region for Manager/Leader and Advanced is determined by the Default Geography of the tenant, not individual users.

Viva Insights – Personal

Customer data is processed and stored in the employee's Exchange Online mailbox. Data residency for Personal insights in Viva Insights is based on the employee's mailbox location. For more information, see Personal insights in Viva Insights privacy guide for admins.

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