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May 02, 2019

SharePoint Online Can Now Rename Site URLs

The modern SharePoint Admin Center introduces the ability to rename the URLs for SharePoint site names. This responds to a longstanding customer request and makes it possible for site names to re...

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rs_oakford

Iron Contributor

Jan 02, 2020

TonyRedmond, as per https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=56205 showing release for Q4 CY2019, I assume this has now been rolled out.

TonyRedmond
MVP
Jan 02, 2020
rs_oakford Yes. The feature should be available in all Office 365 tenants.
- TonyRedmond
  MVP
  Jan 02, 2020
  TonyRedmond And https://office365itpros.com/2019/05/02/sharepoint-online-rename-site-names/ has been updated with a number of recent details about the rename feature.
  - Bikash Maharjan
    Copper Contributor
    May 08, 2020
    TonyRedmond Can I re-use the original URL to create new site collection? Or is that even allowed.
    for example – I renamed existing URL https://tenant.sharepoint.com/Finance to https://tenant.sharepoint.com/FinanceTeam and I would like to create new site collection called https://tenant.sharepoint.com/Finance but I am not able to do so even after about 24hrs