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)
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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.
705 comments
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Anonymous
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Yea, just voicing my support for this. We're in the very same situation.
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hugo magnan
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yes please need this!
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Christian P
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Need this ASAP.. This has been in the works for years.
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Ajay Sharma
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This is business need and must be sorted out asap. Kindly do update any alternative for time being as customer not happy to use tenant name. Business need the same Url to be continue in online as well after migration
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Chelsee Damen
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So glad this is being worked on. Please give us an update on the ETA?
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Lu Ann Bradshaw
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You've been working on this for 2 years now. How much longer will it take?
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Lmart
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Any ETA on this ?
It seems like an essential feature and its been 4 years since its has been asked here ?
Could you guys let us know how it is going wi this please ?
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Singaravelu Souppourayen
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Hi,
You got the GUID for a tenant name, why not use the GUID as a ID for the tenant and allow us to rename the tenant. -
Singaravelu Souppourayen
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MS Teams Free clearly messed up our business plans. <BrandName>@Outlook.com is used to try MS Teams (Free) which created a tenant name of our brandname in Office 365 Admin. Now when we went out to create a Busniess tenant for our brand name <BrandName>.Sharepoint.com is not available and we managed to create a Office 365 for the same brand but the MS Teams (Business) is not creating the Group Mail Box even though Group email IDs are created.
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Jake
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Any updates?! An acknowledgement of this issue would be reassuring. Surely there is a focus on this now more than ever. Our tenant usage has rocketed recently and the focus on our Microsoft platforms has never been so important. My organisation is an educational institution and we'd love to consider using School Data Sync to create groups for all our courses, however, as this would reveal our domain name even further to our students and cause a lot of confusion and misrepresentation, we are in a difficult position. A simple heads up or road map would great as we can then plan to deploy and keep focus on Microsoft systems rather than considering alternatives simply because of an old domain name.
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Eric Frace
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Our company has been stuck with my personal email address as our Sharepoint URL for years because of this issue. By the time we started using Sharepoint, we had already been using Office 365 for email and many other things for years before that. No way we could switch to a new tenant. This has caused us to mostly move away from Sharepoint, but we'd love to use it again if they ever fix this.
Just to clarify, this request is for a change from domain1.sharepoint.com to domain2.sharepoint.com.
I have also upvoted https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/329214-sites-and-collaboration/suggestions/39911329-change-sharepoint-site-sub-domain
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Larry
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Over 4 years since this was requested. Kind of ridiculous an essential feature like this is not available yet.
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Anonymous
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ADD THAT OPTION SOON
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DR
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The only thing more frustrating than not having this functionality is the utter lack of communication from Microsoft regarding status and delivery expectations.
While addressing the issue has been procrastinated internally within Microsoft for the last four years - at a minimum there needs to be some official documentation for how customers should proceed with creating a new SPO tenant and moving associated Microsoft 365 resources with minimal impact to clients and other services.
Sincerely,
One of several thousand pissed off customers. -
Jeff Z
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We would greatly benefit from this feature being added as well.
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Mathias Gläser
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PLEASE ADD THAT OPTION SOON
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Sebastian
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PLEASE ADD THAT OPTION SOON
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NITIN
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PLEASE ADD THAT OPTION SOON
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Anonymous
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It is insane that this capability doesn't exist. Please please please fix this! Until it is done, I have had to stop using SharePoint to distribute information and share files with my entire company.
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Harmen Wessels
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Any ETA on when this feature will be available?
In the SharePoint roadmap I now see a feature called 'SharePoint site Url rename' (Featured ID: 56205). From there a reference to the sharepoint blog is made. In the SharePoint Updates blog I see a reference to this UserVoice at the section 'Site rename':
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/updates-to-sharepoint-security-administration-and-migration/ba-p/549585.
InIn the example on that page it's not actually the tenant-id renamed, but a sub-folder in the domain:
"So for example, if you have a site https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Develpment, using the SharePoint admin center you can rename the site Url to correct the incorrect spelling of “Development”."Is the example wrong here, or is the wrong UserVoice referenced?
