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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Thanks for your feedback! Just a note to let you know that we’re building your suggestion now. We plan to increase availability to this feature as we continue improving the tech, and ensuring a smooth experience across Office 365 following the URL changes in SharePoint Online.
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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 -
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.
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Anonymous
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Why is this taking so long? It is such an important feature for business.
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Carlos Rojas
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This is a requirement from 2016.... We are in 2020.... When this it's going to be ready?? this is a very important thing..
We did a rebrand of our company and we can't change the domain name in Sharepoint.....
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Markus
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Yes, I join as well; an important option to keep everythins up to date!
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Anonymous
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I hope this feature is released soon. We currently have a group of clients that need this functionality due to owners selling business and being combined with a new parent company. It does not cause a problem if I have to delete their current site because it was not really used before, but now that the businesses parent company has changed and their home office is now in another state, this lack of functionality to rename the url on sharepoint online site has caused some dissatisfaction with the only process available to change the domain.
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[Deleted User]
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Need it. Good option
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Anonymous
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I need this option, please
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Shushanth Gopal
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We need this option.
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Microsoft have confirmed they are no longer working on this case because they feel they have completed the requirement by allowing us to rename a site. Even though this is not what was asked for. Please vote on https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/39911329-change-sharepoint-site-sub-domain
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Frank L
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I'm on the same boat as everyone. Would be willing to participante in the trial. Even if it deletes our current site, we can recover. But the domain name we have just can't be used for business.
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Anonymous
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Need this yesterday!!! Started a company with a hotmail account, now 5 years later can't use a real domain name we own, crazy!!!
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Anonymous
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Please we need this feature. Thank you.
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Mahmoud Shokry
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Need this updated.
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garrett
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@microsoft please contact us to be apart of the pilot program, we have been chasing your support for this fix multiple times over the course of years. Currently we have been going back and forth communicating for over a month with no mention of this.
https://steveknutson.blog/2020/02/08/office-365-change-sharepoint-url/
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Anonymous
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come on microsoft ...
