Improve the renaming functionality of Office 365 groups.
When you rename an Office 365 group, only the display name changes. It is not possible to edit the email address or the name of the OneDrive associated to the group. This is confusing, especially for OneDrive.
It should be possible to change all names associated with the group when renaming.
Ivo E
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We are working on providing the ability to edit the email addresses (both primary and secondary) associated with an O365 group. The ability to modify the SharePoint site URL is still being considered.
Roadmap item: https://products.office.com/en-US/business/office-365-roadmap?filters=&freeformsearch=27891&featureid=27891
35 comments
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Shaun Kilmartin
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Any updates? This is seriously a hindrance. We changed primary domain names and changing all the O365 groups has been a nightmare.
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Nick Hurst
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Can we get an update, it's been over a year since the last one. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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Any update on this??
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Florian Valentin
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with powershell you can add an alias to the group. Then you set the alias as primary and than you delete the old emailadress. Renaming the Group -> done.
Connections to Planner were no problem after the change. -
sk
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This is needed
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GraniteStateColin
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Fully support the request as described, but would also like to see the Group Name be properly indexed -- currently no way to search for words in the name if they're not at the start. For example, if there are 3 groups with "software" in their name:
Laser Software
Robotics Software
Software DevelopmentAnd an admin (or user) searches for "software", the only Group Name that will return is "Software Development" because Office 365 stupidly only looks at the start of the Group name. That's not a even a search, it's a simple dumb filter. This becomes especially critical with the growth of Teams, where users (or even admins) may create Teams with names structured in various orders.
As part of fixing the renaming, please update Group Names so that Office can see each individual word (separated by spaces, commas, periods, semicolons, hyphens, etc.) and search on them. In the example above, searching on "software" should return 3 results, not just 1.
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Jan Kristian Kristoffersen
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Secondary incomming email addresses, like aliases on a mailbox, would be great.
Scenario: A Group is created for receiving Limited time-marketing campaign inputs. For each New campaign, a New email address will be published in the marketing of the campaign. As the team dealing With all the campaigns stays the same, the Group should stay the same across campaigns.
Teams could fill this need if the Channels could be given email addresses by the Team owners manually in stead of being created as cryptic ones.Any suggestions for acheiving this by other means?
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Anonymous
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Having a cmdlet for Powershell. The cmdlet requires a Windows instance and so isn't a solution for customers that run on non-Windows laptop. Why can't we just do it through the UI like users?
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ZT
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Why are you taking so long time to get this done?
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Anonymous
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It's important that we can rename Teams, and their underlying components such as group and URL reflects the change. Having a new group without a New URL is NOT LOGICAL!!
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Ismail Moylan
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Would be really great to get this implemented, putting my votes behind it.
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Darwin Blandon
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I need this functionality badly as well. Please Fix.
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Steven Palmo
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Thanks for working on this. Absolutey crucial as Office 365 groups will definitely get renamed especially when/if groups are based on departments, divisions, teams and those always change. When some parts of the 365 does not reflect the 365 group name change, it just acts half-baked
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J Yates
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When creating a dynamic office 365 group from Azure AD the Sharepoint Team Site URL will not use the name of the group, but instead the GUID which is undesirable. We either need a method to change and add a redirect or address in the Azure AD group creation script.
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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. -
Evan
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Plus 1
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Nattapong Cham
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Hi admin, any update?
How can we change group mail, and team site URL? -
Anonymous
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It's critical that you can rename Teams, and their underlying components such as group and URL reflects the change.
+1
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Frederick Lin
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This gets alot more complicated if there is a naming policy which by Microsoft's implementation is based user attributes associated with the *person that is creating the Office 365 Group*. When an administrator modifies the group, those attributes could be different, especially for Groups that have a naming policy configured that reflect on attributes such as the user's business unit, location, or department. To address this, we implemented our own naming policy but it isn't perfect; the naming is done after the fact and not immediately after a change. Would be nice to have a webhook into this sort of event to link this into an Azure web job for example.
Then there are things that cannot be renamed at all such as the site collection URL.
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Rob Nicholson
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My client really needs this ASAP. They work in the pharma field when product names often change and not being able to rename the email they used to communicate with their client is a right pain. They have no option except to create a new group.