Edit

Data Residency for Microsoft Defender for Office P1

  • Article

Overview

Service documentation: Office 365 Security including Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Exchange Online Protection

Capability Summary: Protects email and collaboration from zero-day malware, phish, and business email compromise. MDO P1 builds on Exchange Online Protection (EOP).

Data Residency commitments available

Advanced Data Residency add-on

Required Conditions:

  1. Tenant has a sign-up country included in Local Region Geography or Expanded Local Region Geography.
  2. Tenant has a valid Advanced Data Residency subscription for all users in the Tenant
  3. The MDO P1 subscription customer data is provisioned in Local Region Geography or Expanded Local Region Geography.

Commitment:

Please refer to the ADR Commitment page for the specific customer data at rest commitment for Microsoft Defender for Office P1.

Other Information

In addition, processing of data that is required to analyze threats and inspect suspicious emails, documents, messages, and links is done in a sandbox environment and performed within the Local Region Geography or Expanded Local Region.

Exchange Online Protection

Overview

Service documentation: Exchange Online Protection (EOP) overview

Capability summary: Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is the cloud-based filtering service that protects your organization against spam, malware, and other email threats.

Data Residency commitments available

Advanced Data Residency add-on

Required Conditions:

  1. Tenant has a sign up country included in Local Region Geography or Expanded Local Region Geography.
  2. Tenant has a valid Advanced Data Residency subscription for all users in the Tenant
  3. The EOP subscription customer data is provisioned in Local Region Geography or Expanded Local Region Geography

Commitment:

Please refer to the Advanced Data Residency Commitment page for the specific customer data at rest commitment for Exchange Online Protection.

Migration

EOP customer data migrates after ADR migration is initated. MDO P1 does not have customer data to migrate.

How can I determine customer data location?

You can find the actual data location in Tenant Admin Center. As a tenant administrator you can find the actual data location, for committed data, by navigating to Admin->Settings->Org Settings->Organization Profile->Data Location.