Microsoft 365 – SharePoint Tenant URL Rename – General Availability – New Feature / Feature Update

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Continue exploring Microsoft 365. Today new feature which was announced at Ignite 2022
Feature : SharePoint Tenant URL Rename – General Availability
Details
- Now, the ability to rename our SharePoint domain URL is generally available to organizations that have less than 10,000 total sites (including OneDrive and SharePoint sites)
- This is the scenario when we start our Tenant with test name like KnoweldgeJunctionQA and later want to change the tenant name – KnowledgeJunction so that we can also change the URL
- There is also case of merging two companies / acquisition / rebranding and changing the Tenant name with some common name
- With the tenant rename capability, we will be able to have the SharePoint domain in all site URLs updated to the new name
- Currently this feature is only available to organizations that have no more than 10,000 total SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts combined
First STEP – Adding new custom domain
We have detailed article for configuring and managing custom domains , please follow the steps. Preparing exam SC – 300 – Identity and Access Administrator – Configure and manage custom domains – Study material – Part 3
Next Step is Use Microsoft PowerShell to rename domain
Following are the detailed steps. Since currently I do not have test tenant to test rename feature, here sharing the steps. One option is to create a test Tenant under Microsoft 365 Developer Program – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program and execute following steps
- Connect to our Microsoft 365 tenant using following PowerShell CMDLET – Connect-SPOService
- Run the “SharePoint Online Management Shell” in administrator mode. Make sure we have latest updated version of “SharePoint Online Management Shell”
Connect-SPOService -Url "https://knowledgejunction1-admin.sharepoint.com"
- We need to connect either through “Global Administrator” or “SharePoint Administrator” role
- Once we successfully connected, next step is renaming using PowerShell CMDLET – Start-SPOTenantRename
Start-SPOTenantRename -DomainName <DomainName> -ScheduledDateTime <YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS> [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]
Note – If we get error 773 “Not Implemented” when we try to domain rename, the feature isn’t enabled yet for our organization
- If in between we want to stop the renaming of our Tenant, we can use PowerShell CMDLET – Stop-SPOTenantRename
Stop-SPOTenantRename
-Reason <string>
[-Comment <string>]
[<CommonParameters>]
Using Get-SPOTenantRenameStatus – Knowing the status of renaming of our Tenant
- We could verify our rename status by using the PowerShell CMDLET – Get-SPOTenantRenameStatus
- This command gets the status of the job to rename the SharePoint domain name for your organization
- To execute CMDLET – Get-SPOTenantRenameStatus – make sure we are opening new instance of “SharePoint Online Management Shell” and re-login again
Get-SPOTenantRenameStatus
Limitations
- This change affects only SharePoint and OneDrive URLs. It doesn’t impact email addresses
- This feature isn’t available for organizations that have set up multi-geo
- When we rename your SharePoint domain, we create a redirect at the previous address which will expire 1 year after the rename
- We can only rename our SharePoint domain once. If we need additional renames, we need to submit a support request by selecting Rename a SharePoint Tenant more than once
- Changing SharePoint domain name back to the original name after you rename it isn’t supported
To know / understand the impact on other Apps and SharePoint features (like Hub Site / Power Automate / Power BI / Project Online / Microsoft Teams / Deleted sites / previously created Public sites) please have a look on detailed article from Microsoft – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/change-your-sharepoint-domain-name
REFERENCES
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/change-your-sharepoint-domain-name
- Get-SPOTenantRenameStatus – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/get-spotenantrenamestatus?view=sharepoint-ps
- Get-SPOSiteRenameState – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/get-spositerenamestate?view=sharepoint-ps
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