Issue

Syensqo decided to have only one tenant for M365 platform in Europe region.
The Microsoft EU Data Boundary is a solution that stores and processes public sector and commercial customer data within the EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) regions. This includes data for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and most Azure services.

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The M365 environment is a standard platform to be used by any Syensqo users, which does not comply with specific complex regulations.

Recommendation

Deploy MultiGeo on specific scope where data residency matter, like Composite Material US and UK before the mass migration in order to avoid change management later on due to URL change.

• Default data location for end user service OneDrive, Outlook, Chats.
• Propose default storage location for Sharepoint site.

MultiGeo will not solve data regulation like dual use, ITAR, CUI, but may benefit on data residency requirements.

Background & Context

• Syensqo is migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft M365, without MultiGeo in the default design  for Day 1.
• GWS is not compliant with Export control and dual use documents.
• M365 is not compliant as is with export control and dual use documents.
• Syensqo has limited solution to store
  • CUI data : CMMC enclave
  • ITAR in NTT and Secure SharePoint
  • ITAR shared with external in RegDox
• End users have data on their devices while there is no storage location complying with specific regulation.

M365 provides a capability covered by MultiGeo license to store data from Exchange, OneDrive, Sharepoint, Teams in a specific geographical region.

enabling MultiGeo prior to migrate the user or some SharePoint may help for data residency requirements.

Syensqo Owns 900+ Multi Geo licenses, and purview eDiscovery Premium from E5 and F5 capabilities which is required to cover multi region eDiscovery.

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