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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 ...
Hi Santosh,
The display name does change, but not the root name in the URL.
Ivo
The root name in url will not change.
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.
