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Renaming of O365 groups
Hi all, I tried to search to see if anyone had already asked, but did not find any answers. Today, I renamed one of my O365 Groups, but found the experience to be underwhelming: - No option ...
I took a peak at the Site Page that goes with the group:
https://TENANT.sharepoint.com/sites/GROUPNAME/SitePages/Home.aspx
Not only is the URL not changing but on the Site Page the Group still retains the old Group Name, probably picking up from the URL. So renaming now is only partly done, even on the User Interface.
I'm scared to Delete the Group and try and re-create it with the correct name, I suspect the correct name is now "taken" by the rename?
Rob.
You are correct. When you rename the group from Groups UI it will only update the Group's display name and none other changed. So you can delete the group and create new one with the correct name. Please be aware that when you delete group using Power Shell it will not delete the hidden site collection. So it is recommended to delete it from Group UI.
- Santhosh do you think this will be corrected in the future ? Is there a uservoice for this?
Our use case is that we often start work on preliminary projects and cannot give them a project number until they have been added to our 3rd party PM system. All of our project groups have the proj number attached to the name. Ideally we would rename the group rather than destroy the document revision history by downloading the library and reuploading to a new site.- Not sure when MSFT will improve this. But here is the user voice link for this feature.
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/286611-office-365-groups/suggestions/15585969-improve-the-renaming-functionality-of-office-365-g
Santhosh,
We have a group that was created and have decided to change it to a shared mailbox or back to a DL. We need to be able to re-use the SMTP address associated with the Group. What are your recommendations?Is set-unifiedGroup -PrimarySMTPAddress suffice?
hi, along with set-unifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -PrimarySMTPAddress <new email address>, you need to use set-unifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -EmailAddress SMTP:<newemailaddress> as this will remove the old email address from Office365 Group identity so you can reuse it.
Hi,
I used the command syntax
set-unifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -EmailAddress SMTP:<newemailaddress>
This is what my Attribute "EmailAddresses" looked before (slightly changed content):
EmailAddresses : {SPO:SPO_0affa9c4-1111-2222-3333-162e4873a42e@SPO_89617050-2222-1111-3333-cb7206607595,
smtp:TestingMSTeams@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com, SMTP:TestingMSTeams@domain.me}After running the command without failures, the attribute contents look same but the SPO: part is missing. Is this critical or can I proceed on using my Group without any problems now?
After running the command:
EmailAddresses : {smtp:TestingMSTeams@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com, smtp:TestingMSTeams@domain.me,
SMTP:TestingMSTeams2@pia.me}Appreciate your feedback
That is unfortunate, I hope not a permanent situation. We started using a Group and then realized we wanted to expand it, so there are a bunch of files and emails, so Deleting the group and starting over is not an option we want to persue.
Rob.
