Change url in office 365 for business
Need for Change Management: If you read between the lines on the above where URLs "change", once a URL is renamed, the old URL doesn't work anymore.The old URLs stop working, the new URLs take effect, but you have no control when it is complete. Microsoft's preview documentation suggests to "do it over a weekend", but effectively you kick off the process and just wait. Big Bang Cutover: Currently, the rename process is done as an all or nothing cutover that can take hours or days to complete.Don't get your hopes up this will actually happen for your org any time soon. No guarantees you'll get invited to participate, and no formal response process. Preview Only (as of Sept/2021): This rename process is in Preview only, so you need to nominate yourself and then "wait".Gotchas in Performing this Tenant Name Renameįor a quick list of some of the big things that are gotchas in this URL rename process: Microsoft released a technical guide describing the Preview of this option to rename the URLs embedded in SharePoint Online and OneDrive links. NOW, that URL name for SharePoint Online and OneDrive URLs can be changed! But of course there are some gotchas.Ĭhanging the URL Name for SharePoint Online and OneDrive So if my tenant name for Office 365 is "companyabc", all of my SharePoint Online URLs would be something like /sites/filexxxįor simple environments where your company email address is and your Office 365 tenant name is companyabc, then this works and looks just fine.īut for organizations that may have gone through an organizational name change, like changing from companyabc and now known as corp-events, where emails were able to be changed from to, Office 365 tenant names have NOT been changeable! Or orgs that created their tenant name based on a legal corporate name not by the name the organization goes by, sometimes the URLs look weird or have been confusing. For organizations using Office 365 and had to share a URL for a link to a SharePoint Online site, library, or shared OneDrive file, they will have noticed the URL includes the "tenant name" for the organization.