
The storage location for one-to-one or one-to-many chat is based on the PDL of the person who created the chat. Private Chat (one-to-one, one-to-many, and private meeting messages) will all be stored in the Geo of the PDL of the user. They will not really be aware of where data is stored. Teams Multi-Geo is seamless to the end-user.

How does Multi-Geo work with Microsoft Teams? It is not currently available to CSP customers. Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo is an extra cost licence and is available as an add-on for Enterprise Agreement customers. their mailbox, their OneDrive, their SharePoint sites and now their teams. This is set by setting each user’s Preferred Data Location (PDL) – A user property set by the administrator that indicates where the geo-location where the user’s data should be provisioned e.g.

The tenant’s central location is based on where the Microsoft 365 subscription was originally provisioned and satellite locations are selected by tenant admins. Multi-Geo was initially launched with support for Exchange Online and OneDrive in 2018, but now Microsoft Teams support has been added.

For example, needing to keep German users data in Germany. This can be helpful to meet data residency requirements for multi-national organizations. Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo allows Office 365 tenants to a primary central location and one or more specific satellite locations for their data.
