Expanding globally to the UK and Germany

Question

My company just announced that we are expanding globally and will be hiring a team of consultants in the UK and Germany. My biggest concern is Identity Access and Management, especially in regards to GDRP compliance. Currently we have one Azure Tenant and are AD is fully cloud. Could someone please give me an overview of the best way to approach this as we bring on new hires in Germany and Britain?

Should we create a new tenant that is separate from our US tenant? How do I account for costs that go into this? What if they need to access information in the US tenant?

Any advice is sincerely appreciated, feel free to ask me more questions about my environment as I will be checking this periodically

Answer 1

@Anonymous Thank you for reaching out to us, As I understand you are looking for details/approach in expanding the organization from US to Europe with Identity Access Management.

Researched on this requirement, came across this option

The Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities add-on provides Enterprise Agreement customers with the ability to expand their Microsoft 365 presence to multiple geographic regions within a single existing Microsoft 365 Tenant. Multi-Geo enables customers to manage data-at-rest locations at a granular level for their users, SharePoint sites, Microsoft 365 Groups, and Microsoft Teams teams level. Multi-Geo is targeted to customers who have a need to store data in multiple geographies to satisfy their data residency requirements.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/589408/for-gdpr-how-does-multi-geo-work

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1179707/one-tenant-and-select-where-data-is-managed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9-Vt2fArk&t=291s

If this approach doesnt meet your business requirements, let me know, will check with my team further on this.