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Hi,<br />
&nbsp;<br />
I'm wondering how Microsoft decides to distribute the data between all of their data centers.<br />
Reason why I'm asking this is because we are an international company with over 5500 mailboxes and sites all of the world.<br />
However, all of our mailboxes are located in datacenters in Europe:<br />

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<li>Dublin, Ireland</li>
<li>Austria</li>
<li>Amsterdam, Netherlands</li>
<li>Finland</li>
</ul>
We have, for instance, a lot of users in Singapore, India, South America, Australia, etc...<br />
I imagine that the performance would be much better if the mailbox is actually stored in the region the user resides in.<br />
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On <a href="http://o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net/" rel="ugc">This</a> page you can find all the data centers.<br />
I've used <a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Script-to-a6bbfc2e" rel="ugc nofollow">This</a> Powershell script to determine the Exchange Online mailbox locations in our environment.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
Thanks for your input.
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Hi,
 
I'm wondering how Microsoft decides to distribute the data between all of their data centers.
Reason why I'm asking this is because we are an international company with over 5500 mailboxes and sites all of the world.
However, all of our mailboxes are located in datacenters in Europe:
Dublin, Ireland
Austria
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Finland

We have, for instance, a lot of users in Singapore, India, South America, Australia, etc...
I imagine that the performance would be much better if the mailbox is actually stored in the region the user resides in.
 
On This (http://o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net/) page you can find all the data centers.
I've used This (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Script-to-a6bbfc2e) Powershell script to determine the Exchange Online mailbox locations in our environment.
 
Thanks for your input.

Office 365 - How does Microsoft distribute the data between all their data centers?

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

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