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Location for License users in Exchange online

When create a license users, it ask for the location. Should I need to select the physical location for a users ? eg. If the user is office is in Beijing and relocate to London, should I specify the location be "London" ? Will Exchange try to assign users to the server that close to his working location ?

Thx again.

Afthab T

It is up to you only. It is better to keep all the users in the same location.

New Office 365 tenants are defaulted to a data center geography (Geo) based on the country of the transaction associated with that tenant’s first subscription.

Simon Leung

ASKER

So, location selection in active users doesn't affect the physical location of the mailbox, it is only for my reference only, correct ?

Thx

Mahesh

By default azure sets billing address as default tenant location

However you are forced to provide location before you assign license
The sole purpose is to assign mailbox to nearer data center in proximity of that location
It also helps you to identify user location

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/multi-geo-capabilities-in-exchange-online

Simon Leung

ASKER

Get-Msoluser can't execute, any idea ?

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName peter | Format-List UserPrincipalName,PreferredDataLocation

Get-MsolUser : The term 'Get-MsolUser' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,
or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is
correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName peter | Format-List UserPrincipalNam ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-MsolUser:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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Mahesh

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