Change groups sites/URL URL.
Today when you create a group, it is created under the "/sites" managed path. Please change this so we always can have complete governance over the /sites-path. So when we want to create new site-collections you won't get URL-conflicts.
Arne Nøstvik
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AdminMicrosoft 365 Groups Feedback
(Product Owner, Microsoft Office 365)
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We’ve recently shipped the ability to change the SharePoint Site URL associated with a Microsoft 365 Group (formerly Office 365 Group). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=56205. This can be done via the SharePoint Admin Center. The site URL can be changed on a per-site basis, but currently we don’t have plans to allow admins to change the global default from “/sites” to something different.
42 comments
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Anonymous
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Is there any update on this? We have a business model where we need to be able to rename the primary sharepoint url to the new governance name; something we currently can't do without completely recreating our tenant (something we definitely can't do).
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Jason
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Any update on the status of this enhancement or when we might see it pop up on the M365 roadmap? Thanks.
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rspruijt
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I believe this should now be rolled out as per https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=56205 :)
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Marisa K.
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I agree with most comments here - this is really a needed feature (e.g. when orgs are renamed etc.)
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Anonymous
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How can this still be unavailable? What if a company has changed names due to rebranding, or merger, or buyout?
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Karen
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Absolutely need the ability to change urls on group sites. Now I have to basically delete everyone's groups and start over since upper management wants the url to match the 365 group name.
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Alex Bernal
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How can this still be unavailable? What if a company needs to change names due to rebranding, or merger, or buyout? We must have the ability to change our Sharepoint url.
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Sean Dezarn
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Gotta have this
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Anonymous
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Any update on this? Causing major problems for my organization.
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Anonymous
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I agree. Please change this!
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Matthew
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What's there to think about? Why's this taking so long!? An IT professional who wants to be able to change the URL for sites they manage should be able to do so, period. We have to own that and accept responsibility for the consequences. In most cases, the pain of changing the URL is less than the pain of migrating the data to a new site. :(
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Jason Harkless
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seems to me that using GUIDs in URLs would fix everything. (FWIW, other successful DMS do it this way). I was excited to see that MS Teams uses GUIDs and I don't understand why SP does not do the same? No one should ever care what the actual URL is- having one that "reads as its name" in antiquated
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SDADM
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Agreed!
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Anonymous
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Please change this!!!!
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B. van Draanen
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I agree also. Because when we create several Office365 Groups, sometimes the standard URL is different. When standard URL can be changed, administration of Groups would be much more better.
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Jennifer McTaggart
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Beck is 100% dead on for this. I recently had a case where my SP Admin was trying to create a site collection that conflicted with an O365 group. Instead of the failure message stating that, it displayed 'Access Denied'. In hindsight, I understand it, but at the time, it was very unclear and caused us a few hours of chasing our tails. Please give us more control over O365 Groups!
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Beck
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What would be great would be if the SPO URL for sites created by Office 365 groups had /groups in the path instead of /sites. That would be another way to avoid this conflict. I was asked to create a /sites/marketing SPO site however I was getting an access denied message as a global admin. Turns out there was an Office 365 group created 2 months ago called Marketing and since sites created automatically for groups use the /sites URL they in essence squatted on the URL 1st. My global admin account did not have access to the group, hence the access denied message when trying to create the new site collection with the sites/marketing URL. *facepalm*
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J Baker
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be great if we can change SharePointSiteUrl address when our business want to change the group's name details.
Can seem to change the primary smtp address via powershell - but for the site's url - no go.. can this be looked into? This would be a practical solution to a business problem that can happen, outside of IT's control. -
A. Auras
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"Unavoidable Business Reality" yep - you nailed it down.
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Tiffany
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Please allow this update! It's frustrating to have groups change names and be unable to update the url to follow. Name changes are an unavoidable business reality.