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.

6,360 votes

Dan Furse shared this idea · March 30, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

working on it ·

AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · June 16, 2021

Providing a consistent user experience across M365 that continues to function as expected is a very complex problem which we have been validating in a Private Preview Program.

The good news is that we are once again able to accept additional nominations into the Private Preview. If you would like to nominate yourself you can do so at https://aka.ms/SPOTenantRenameNomination. Please note that a nomination does not necessarily mean that you will be accepted. We are reviewing these on a case by case basis and will only be in contact if accepted.

For more information about renaming your SharePoint domain including the current limitations and process visit https://aka.ms/SPOTenantRename.

Show previous admin responses (7)

working on it ·

AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · December 15, 2020

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.

working on it ·

AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · September 09, 2020

Providing the ability to scale from renaming individual sites, to all sites within a SharePoint tenant, while ensuring a consistent user experience across M365 is a complex problem. We have been working hard on this long-awaited feature and are currently validating this with a subset of customers in a closed (no longer accepting nominations) Private Preview Program. As we consolidate their feedback, we will provide another update in the next few months.

working on it ·

Adminmatthew.carlson (Program Manager, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · November 15, 2019

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.

working on it ·

AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · March 07, 2019

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 throughout 2019.

Corporate lifecycle is a real and constant pressure in business, often resulting in a need to rename the Office 365 Tenant. To that end we are working on the solution to change the SharePoint domain URL (contoso.sharepoint.com renamed to fabrikam.sharepoint.com). This capability will also then enable the renaming of an individual site collection (contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/abc to contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/xyz).

While we don’t have an estimated delivery date to share at this time, we’ll update your suggestion with details as they become available.

Matthew Carlson
Microsoft

working on it ·

AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · March 07, 2019

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 throughout 2019.

While we don’t have an estimated delivery date to share at this time, we’ll update your suggestion with details as they become available.

Matthew Carlson
Microsoft

working on it ·

SharePoint Hybrid and Migration Team responded · January 03, 2018

Thanks for your feedback! Just a note to let you know that we’re building your suggestion now.

While we don’t have an estimated delivery date to share at this time, we’ll update your suggestion with details as they become available.

Bill Baer MSFT

thinking about it ·

AdminSharePoint UserVoice Admin (SharePoint UserVoice Admin, Microsoft SharePoint) responded · May 17, 2016

We recognize that this is important for customers that undergo branding changes or mergers, or who simply want to move away from less than ideal initial URLs.

818 comments

An error occurred while saving the comment

SV commented · July 18, 2021 00:36 · Flag as inappropriate

Thanks for help through the private preview option. We were able to rename our sites without any issues.

Submitting...
Timo Heikkilä commented · July 17, 2021 06:30 · Flag as inappropriate

This should have been possible from the start. Other vendors had this kind of problems on the 90s...

Submitting...
Robert Symmons commented · July 13, 2021 07:32 · Flag as inappropriate

Disgusting that Microsoft quietly removed the much larger and popular request to achieve this same result at a tenant level. After blowing off the request for years and deleting the votes on numerous occasions they're finally getting rid of uservoice but have strategically left this post in place.

This URL was the vote for renaming the prefix for the entire tenant (not just SharePoint) e.g. contoso.onmicrosoft.com to fabrikim.onmicrosoft.com

https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/10285887-make-it-possible-to-change-the-tenant-name-in-offi

But it's been replaced by a splash page. Sure this is a step in the right direction, but where is your customer service Microsoft? After so many years of waiting, a statement at the last Ignite and a "working on it" post on the forum itself you've just dropped it completely?

Submitting...
LM commented · July 11, 2021 17:30 · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you for accepting my application to rename our site. Just finished and it was smooth.

Hopefully, this feature can be rolled out to everyone soon!

But I do recommend while the link is open above for nominations to at least try to be a part of the private preview. The date is last month, but I signed up this past week. Sign up!!!

Submitting...
Marko Sever commented · July 11, 2021 02:37 · Flag as inappropriate

Really need this feature as company name changed.

Submitting...
Joao Almeida commented · June 20, 2021 18:18 · Flag as inappropriate

Don't work.
I tried today 06/18/2021 and I received a erro, not implemented (after update my SPO Commands).

I followed steps at documentation (it's wrong steps).

Without success.

What happening?

Submitting...
Craig Wilson commented · June 18, 2021 02:53 · Flag as inappropriate

Any update on this? It would be really useful to let us change the sub-domain at the very least!

Really need to get it changed as it was never thought through well enough when created and now looks silly. to have something akin to "ABCOnlineOutlook.sharepoint.com" in the URL..

Submitting...
Vianey commented · June 16, 2021 09:45 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello Microsoft team, some partners and customers are asking us for an update about this feature and want to know if there is any new date for accepting participants for the preview program, I really appreciate your comments, thank you!

Submitting...
Leon commented · June 14, 2021 12:11 · Flag as inappropriate

still need this feature for our clients!

Submitting...
Grube commented · June 14, 2021 06:25 · Flag as inappropriate

How is it possible that it takes more than 5 years to change that ?

Submitting...
Scott commented · June 11, 2021 10:03 · Flag as inappropriate

only been a year come on man!

Submitting...
Anonymous commented · June 09, 2021 10:25 · Flag as inappropriate

"We will provide another update within the next few months."

.....last update 6 months ago

Submitting...
Jesper Munk Nielsen commented · June 09, 2021 01:29 · Flag as inappropriate

Half a year since last status, please let us know where this is at? We need it available asap!

Submitting...
Anonymous commented · June 08, 2021 01:19 · Flag as inappropriate

Dear MS Team,

It is a very important aspect for most of the customers to have their On-Premise SharePoint URLs to be mapped with the SharePoint Online URLs in terms of keeping the same domain names instead of *.SharePoint.com.
Please share the latest updates on this request.
Many Thanks.

Submitting...
GV commented · June 02, 2021 06:46 · Flag as inappropriate

How can orgs join the private preview?

Submitting...
BRNDN commented · May 28, 2021 16:19 · Flag as inappropriate

I wish I could ignore my clients problems for 5 years by updating them every other year or so by saying, "we're working on it".

Submitting...
dalben commented · May 25, 2021 01:18 · Flag as inappropriate

This is quite an important requirement when you need it, Hopefully the few things aren't deal breakers and we'll see it soon

Submitting...
Michał commented · May 24, 2021 06:34 · Flag as inappropriate

@Admin, Any update?

Submitting...
Lewis commented · May 22, 2021 10:19 · Flag as inappropriate

hurry up and get it done!

Submitting...
Dina Andrews commented · May 19, 2021 12:17 · Flag as inappropriate

How do we get in on the Preview of this feature? Any ETA on a release?

Submitting...