Planned Maintenance: Teams Q&A Data Relocation to EU

Teams Q&A data for EU tenants will be relocated from US to EU datacenters on March 14, 2025, starting at 10:00 PM CET, lasting 4 hours. During this time, Q&A will be in read-only mode. Inform users about this planned maintenance. Learn more at aka.ms/GetQnA. Planned Maintenance: You are receiving this message because your Microsoft 365 tenant’s billing address indicates that your tenant belongs to the EU, but your Teams Q&A data currently resides in the US data boundary. Teams Q&A is an experience in Teams, powered by Viva Engage, that allows presenters to take questions from meeting attendees and answer them in real time. Learn about Q&A here aka.ms/GetQnA On March 14, 2025, at 10:00 PM Central European Time, your Teams Q&A data will be relocated from datacenters in the US to datacenters in the EU as a part of a planned maintenance that is expected to last approximately 4 hours. Starting March 14, 2025. Ending March 15, 2025 How this will affect you organization: The Relocation process will move your Q&A data from the US to the EU data boundary. During of the relocation process, users will: Be able to view the Q&A from prior meetings, but not be able to post new questions, edit or react to messages. Meeting organizers will temporarily be unable to enable Q&A for new Teams meetings directly from the Meeting Options. If they attempt to do so, the Q&A panel will display a message stating, “Q&A is not successfully enabled for this event. Turn it on from Meeting Options.” To resolve this, organizers should re-enable Q&A from the Meeting Options once the relocation window is complete. The read-only mode is expected to last for about 4 hours, after which, Q&A will be reinstated. What you need to do to prepare: Please inform your users that there is a planned maintenance that will keep Q&A in read-only for 4 hours on March 14, 2025, starting at 10:00 PM Central European Time. Message ID: MC1025245

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