Group SharePoint site URLs
With the onboarding of Teams, there are some groups out there that have changed their Group Name. While as a Global Admin I know I can successfully change the display name and email address of said group via powershell, but there doesn't seem to be a way to change the SharePointSiteURL, SharePointDocumentsURL & SharePointNotebookURL of the group.
This means that the only way for a Group to have the URL of their choice is by recreating it with the new name, which wipes out all the content of their current group. We should have a way to change the SharePoint URLs for groups.


We’ve recently shipped the ability to change the SharePoint Site URL associated with a Microsoft 365 Group (formerly Office 365 Group). This can be done via the SharePoint Admin Center. The roadmap item can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=56205.
23 comments
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Glenn McClellan commented
Looking for update and road map item please and thank you.
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Jason commented
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 commented
See also my comment on https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/286611-office-365-groups/suggestions/8238162-change-groups-sites-url-url which says this should now be rolled out :)
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Alaa commented
Any update on this, please.
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Stiliyan commented
Not able to find the same on the roadmap. It was considered unnecessary...
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Anonymous commented
To address the concern of broken links, you could simply set up redirects (i.e. IIS URL Rewrite rules) from the old to the new URLs. This would need to be an option, as theoretically a group could be renamed and moved to a URL so another group can take it's place (in this case the customer would have to accept the broken links).
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Jeff commented
After having worked more in-depth with Groups/Sharepoint, etc. it's absolutely critical to be able to rename the /sites/groupname URL; we've adopted a more formal naming structure for new groups but are unable to update groups originally created early on to match this naming format which is a pain.
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JD commented
I get this would cause link breaks but let us deal with that. Just having the ability would be nice.
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JAS commented
Created a new Team Site from an existing site....within Teams, I changed the name for the new site successfully. However, viewing in SharePoint shows the old site in the URL with [COPY] after it...not good! Need the ability to change the URL to reflect the Team Site name or have it updated with the name change in Teams.
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Curtis Manley commented
Would also like to see the edit Office365 groups or SharePoint URLs... either in the GUI or via PowerShell.
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Abdullahi Ahmed commented
it's possible to rename site url + group mailbox
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Dan M commented
Any update from MSFT on this one?
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Dragan Stojkovic commented
Please enable this renaming option. Optionally can be: after renaming majority of group member approving.
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Anonymous commented
Are there any updates on this functionality becoming available?
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Anonymous commented
Essential feature for constantly changing data structures.
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Anonymous commented
Its wonderful that creating a group provisions all these resources, but when you are forced to delete a group instead of being able to rename it, due to these associated resource links all being broken......
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Jason Harkless commented
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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Tim commented
I agree that we need this. Please add this to the roadmap because it is very useful with company takeovers, re-organizations, and other business situations that occur and are unavoidable.
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Tiffany commented
Please allow this update!
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Alex commented
I think when creating a Team or group that instead og the team/group name in the URL there should a UID instead. Then the group/team name can change independently.