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TonyRedmond
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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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TonyRedmond
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Jan 02, 2020

rs_oakford  Yes. The feature should be available in all Office 365 tenants.

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    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

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      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

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