
Qualified personnel meet GCC requirements for access to customer content. Qualified, screened personnel are monitoring these servers for potential access to customer data by reviewing any interactive log-ons to these servers. However, these servers are processing audio and video for calls and conferences and are operating under our commercial staff during this interim period.

These audio/video servers reside within the Microsoft Azure FedRAMP High accreditation boundary servers in the United States and do not store any customer content. In response to the unprecedented increase in calls, and to ensure continuity and availability, Microsoft is allowing Microsoft Teams GCC audio/video servers to leverage processing capacity in our commercial datacenters, as well as in our government datacenters. while using Office for the web (formerly known as Office Web Apps)ĪDFS – if you adopt the use of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 and set up policies to help ensure your users connect to the services through single sign-on, any customer content that is temporarily cached in Office for the web will be located in the U.S.A.Microsoft Teams is experiencing a tremendous spike in online calls and audio/video conferencing due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Office Web Apps – If your users are located within the U.S.A.

Microsoft Teams – persistent chat threads With typical use, Skype for Business does not store customer content, but if such storage occurs, it will be stored in datacenters in the U.S.A. Skype for Business – archived conversations, uploaded documents, and whiteboarding sessions The Site usage page for SharePoint sites is available for government plans, though per compliance, there are some features of this page that are only available to commercial customers. SharePoint Online – site content and the files stored within that site. The following customer content is stored at rest in datacenters physically located only in the U.S.A:Įxchange Online – mailbox content (email bodies, calendar entries, and the content of e-mail attachments) Office 365 Government application services Office 365 Government services are provided from datacenters physically located in the United States.

