office 365 - Connecting to a Onedrive resource with an IP address in South Korea

Mohamed Ali ABIDI 201 Reputation points
2023-02-03T17:24:47.25+00:00

Hello,

My collaborator works only in Canada.

In the Compliance Portal audit logs, I found a usage of his personal OneDrive site with an IP address in South Korea:

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Although this IP address belongs to Microsoft, is this normal (given the geographical distance between the Microsoft data centers in Canada and South Korea)?

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Do you have an idea. Thanks

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  1. Philippe Levesque 5,706 Reputation points MVP
    2023-02-03T18:09:26.1533333+00:00

    Hi

    As the source IP I find that strange as it would mean the collaborator could had used more like a Windows 365 service (Windows hosted in Azure) to access onedrive. (as the source IP from where the collaborator accessed the link is coming from a Microsoft datacenter)

    If he indeed used that kind of VM to work on, the datacenter for such were randomly allocated depending on the load in the past, I can't tell for now. So it might explain why for South Korea.

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