Multi-geo Data Location
The question it answers: Where are users’ mailboxes, OneDrives and group sites stored in a Multi-Geo tenant, and which have no preferred data location?
In a Multi-Geo tenant, preferredDataLocation decides where a user’s mailbox and OneDrive, and a group’s site, are stored. Unset means the central geo. For data-residency obligations that is a compliance question, not a technical one - this report shows where the data is and where the user is.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Where in the app | Entra ID › Identity Configuration › Multi-geo Data Location |
| Workload | Entra ID |
| Kind | Findings list · dashboard tile |
| Data | Read from Microsoft 365 when someone first opens it, then kept for the report cache lifetime (Settings > Data & cache, 1 hour unless changed). |
| Licence | Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo add-on (the report is empty otherwise). |
| Report id (API and MCP) | entra.configuration.multi-geo |
Columns
Section titled “Columns”| Column | Key | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Severity | Severity | Status |
| Finding | Category | Text |
| User / group / geo | Subject | Link |
| Check | Setting | Text |
| Value | Value | Text |
| Finding | Finding | Text |
| UPN | Detail | Text |
| Date | When | Date |
| Count | Number | Number |
A findings list hides columns that no row fills. Severity is Critical, Serious, Warning, OK or Info; rows rated Critical, Serious or Warning need attention (Working with findings).
What it needs
Section titled “What it needs”Licence: Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo add-on (the report is empty otherwise).
Application permissions on the IntensiveReports app registration (all permissions):
| Permission | API | What it allows | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
User.Read.All | Microsoft Graph | Read all users’ full profiles | |
Group.Read.All | Microsoft Graph | Read all groups |
Data sources it reads
GET /v1.0/users?$select=preferredDataLocation,usageLocation,countryGET /v1.0/groups?$select=preferredDataLocation
Through the API and MCP
Section titled “Through the API and MCP”GET /ir-api/v1/reports/entra.configuration.multi-geo?size=100An AI assistant reads it with the MCP tool get_report and the id entra.configuration.multi-geo. The client needs the Read grant for Entra ID. See Using the API.