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Effects of changing the Organization name
Renaming the OneDrive folder (actual path name) will not work as the client tries to "lock" the path. If the client is turned off, and then renamed - we will error out. You are able to change the friendly name of the entry that shows in file explorer, but note that this would not change the name that is accessible when navigating from command line.
The alternative here is renaming the tenant friendly name so the desired name can appear in all of the clients appropriately. However, we would not be able to smoothly transition for an already set up client. A client would need to a fresh setup, or be unlinked/relinked in order to handle the newly updated tenant name. Let me know if that helps!
Chris L.
I renamed our Organisation, and it caused a world of grief with my OneDrive ... advise not to do it.
I had to re-sync my entire OneDrive and SharePoint folders ...
Deleted - did you need to re-synch SharePoint and OneDrive in order to get the new name to appear correctly, or did renaming the Company name in Org profile actually break synching for you?
One of my staff renamed the Org profile ... fortunately not many had started using OneDrive or SharePoint at the time, it was a known list of people.
Would hate to do it now, with hundreds of users.
It broke the sync for me. So I had to re-sync to get it to work ... very painful.
