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.
Mitchell Cooper
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Dragan Stojkovic
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Please enable this renaming option. Optionally can be: after renaming majority of group member approving.
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Anonymous
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Are there any updates on this functionality becoming available?
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Anonymous
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Essential feature for constantly changing data structures.
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Anonymous
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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
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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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Tim
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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
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Please allow this update!
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Alex
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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.
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Brian Kuhn (CIO)
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Yes, when using a democratic approach to group creation, you (we have) end up with groups with non-standard names (we've not implemented group governance yet - need P1 license). When renaming groups, it would be ideal for sure to have the URL match.
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RikH
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Absolutely, although using a naming convention for Groups is useful in the Global Address List, the Group Name should not necessarily be set the same as the Group Site name.
We should have the ability to rename the Site name and URL independently of the Office 365 Group name which appears in the Global Address List. -
AC
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Hi Mitchell,
Did you ever figure out how to change an Office 365 Team Site URL?
Thank you!