Enable renaming the SPO tenant domain
Currently the site collection URLs are fixed as https://tenant.sharepoint.com and cannot be changed. This does not fit with flexible cloud-based solutions - business needs will inevitably result in an organisation changing it's name during its lifetime (mergers, acquisitions, rebranding etc). While it may not be possible to change it so that entirely custom domains are used (eg contoso.com, instead of sharepoint.com), it must be possible to allow the sub-domain to be changed (eg. newtenant.sharepoint.com)? Please?
Migrating an entire organisation (likely to include Exchange, Skype, Sharepoint and Onedrive data!!) to a new Tenancy is absolutely not a viable option.
Dan Furse
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AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin
(SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint)
responded
We are continuing to validate this long-awaited feature in a Private Preview Program with a subset of customers. Although feedback has been very positive we have identified a few things that we still need to address before we start making this more generally available. We appreciate that this is taking time, however providing a consistent user experience across M365 that continues to function as expected is a complex problem. We will provide another update within the next few months.
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Anonymous
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Wow, still no fix for the #1 requested item on SharePoint forums? After how many years? Does Microsoft even care about its customers? Please, please, please allow us to use whatever domain cname we want for our Microsoft SharePoint URL. How is it GoDaddy, Yahoo, Google, Wix can figure this out, but Microsoft can not?
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Anonymous
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Our name doesn't even reflect "tenant". It's a concatenation of most of the admin account's email address. Ugly as hell. Save us!
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Danielle Lacoursière
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This issue needs to be on top of the pile. It's been years!
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Scott Franchini
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How is this not an option? This needs to be resolved ASAP.
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Anonymous
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any updates on this?
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Anonymous
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Come on Microsoft please let us know when this will be rolled out, doesn't take much to keep us informed
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Anonymous
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WAITING ~~~~
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Anonymous
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Maybe someone could give me a suggestion, I have an old company name that brought us down and we did a name change. I have both the old domain as the onmicrosoft as well as the new domain. We wanted to make a communication site public for our customers, but did not want them to see the old name. Rather than moving everything, if I just created a new Sharepoint under the new domain name we want them to see, would that work?
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Jack Stevens
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Any update on this?
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Thyran John Wright commented
unfortunately we beating a dead horse voting on this post... Microsoft have already confirmed this request has been delivered in the form of being able to rename the site name and not the sub domain as per my ticket raised with them (see post below)
See new user voice and vote on it to get the ball rolling again
please see user voice
https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/39911329-change-sharepoint-site-sub-domain -
Anonymous
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this... please!
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Paul Zaal
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I kept my mouth shut for +4 years, but now I'm done with it .....
In the bureaucratic Dutch administration it is easier to change your first name into something you do like but don't own (a new name) than to change the domain name (something that is already yours) and add/change/combine/connect it to a SharePoint tenant.
The previous announcement "Working on it" is dated November 15, 2019. It's a pity you can't flag @admin answers as inappropriate.
Hopefully @Dan-Furse isn't retired in the meantime ...........
Come on guys, 'Make Microsoft big again'!
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Jean-Paul de Jong
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@admin any update on this? This is essential for us, it is crazy to have to move everything to a new tenant.
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Amol Pawar
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We need this option .
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unfortunately we beating a dead horse voting on this post... Microsoft have already confirmed this request has been delivered in the form of being able to rename the site name and not the sub domain as per my ticket raised with them (see post below)
See new user voice and vote on it to get the ball rolling again
please see user voice
https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/39911329-change-sharepoint-site-sub-domain -
James
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We should be able to do this. Bit of a joke that we can not. We are stuck with our old name now on our yammer, sharepoint, and everything 365 related.
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Charlie
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Our company is changing names this Summer and we do not want to perform a migration on a extensively configured tenant just to adjust the URL. It’s very frustrating.
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Leandro Fuly commented
It will be really important for all customers. We are being impacted without this feature. The domains that being created are incorporating ".com" in the name turn in "mydomaincom.com". This has been unsatisfactory. You're being forced to buy a new domain.
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Mike G
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Many customers are impacted even without an organization name change. Our tenant domain was marred at the beginning by auto-provisioning during initial 365 account setup. In some scenarios, the period is removed and the root domain is appended to the org domain: e.g. mydomain.com becomes mydomaincom! Why?? This strands customers with an unexpected domain name and results in SPO tenant URLs such as: mydomainCOM.sharepoint.com (uppercase added for emphasis)! Then, we learn there's no way to fix this mess. Surely this scenario could be avoided with a more intelligent provisioning script or customer warnings during account set up. The bottom line is, we at least need a way to fix it after the fact without having to migrate to an entirely new tenant.
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James Ellis
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Stunned that this isn't an available feature - it seems an essential part of rolling the platform out for business.
