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MVP

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
  - Nate1178
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 23, 2020
    Bikash Maharjan
    Check out this article on how to remove the redirect that is pointing to your old site name, and how you can remove it
    
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/manage-site-redirects