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.
673 comments
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Nick Orlich
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We are also in dire need for this feature, please finish this!
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Jan bugess
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Get on with this already. 2 years "working on it" and still waiting
We're only a small business and it's making our life very difficult. I can't imagine how some of your larger corporate enterprises are managing.
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Thyran John Wright commented
based on admin notes Microsoft have been working on this since January 2018 2 years later and still working on it with no idea on a time frame? Any project managers at Microsoft?
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Richard
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Can you give a status update? This functionality is much needed!
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Josh Beaumont
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Please can we have an update on this, I am currently holding off moving all of a customers data set to share point as they changed company name and sharepoint URL still reflects the original company name which they don't want to see.
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Anonymous
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please fix!
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Anonymous
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Microsoft, please fix this. Any update? Thank you,
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Maverick
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The need is absolutely there. we don't want to do expensive tenant migration. Please make this feature a high priority.
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Danial Shaikh
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Hurry up Microsoft! We've been waiting forever for this functionality. The update in November implied that it'd be available soon and my level of disappointment now increases daily.
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Brandon
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I come and stare at this thread once a week, praying that more 'WORKING ON IT' boxes show up.
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Chris Brawley
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We have rebranded our company and moving to a new tenant is simply not a viable solution. Please make this a public preview ASAP as I am trying to deploy my company SPO infrastructure and this limitation means we have to confuse users with our old branding until the URL can be renamed.
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Glenn
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Any update since Nov 2019 as to when this might be available either in beta or GA?
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Anonymous
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any news ?? i need this now.... my company change name ed now we need to change all tenant..
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Greg
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Any updates? I have read so many older requests and no one ever responds in the M$ help forums.
I have been nothing but dismayed moving to O365. I thought it would make life easier and it has made it 10x harder. Noting ever works and things like this happen where you are just stuck unless you want to move heaven and Earth. I have 100 things I want to get done and dealing with Exchange and Office problems are not one.
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Anonymous
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Hello Microsoft, we really need this feature for our business, as like most businesses we go through a rebranding from time to time and having the old incorrect name on our site or products reflects poorly on our IT team. Please fix this or allow for alternate access mappings, as this could be done with the on-prem SharePoint. Thank you,
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Joel Kino
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Any updates on this? Really need this!!!
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Anonymous
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This is insanity. How is it that you guys can't handle this?
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Anonymous
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+1
(and I wonder what kind of thinking created this problem in first place - did someone think that Microsoft would never change its own name and accordingly probably nobody else would do so either?) -
Lisa French
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This is what I got from a Microsoft support person when I opened a ticket again with them yesterday:
My name is with Microsoft Office Support emailing in regards to the ticket that was submitted!
I took a look at the older ticket and looked at the uservoice as well! I even asked an advanced team member so I can get a better understanding as I do not have any access to the knowledge of upcoming features. I do not have any concrete information, but it seems that last year there was a beta for tenants to test this feature out. From this testing, the direction on how to accomplish the renaming was changed and is still in development, as they are reworking the ability so the tenant is still functional after processing a SPO rename.
There's not much information that we have regarding this, but I wanted to provide you with atleast something to give you some context as to this feature's development! I do apologize for any inconvenience as well for not having this feature available to you.
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Alessandro Riolo
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Someone at Microsoft needs to be fired for this.
The more the better.
It is simply unacceptable.
You cannot keep this wound open for 4 years.
