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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.
Anyone know of other effects of changing the Organization name than OneDrive? Where else does that name show up?
Honestly, the name of the OneDrive folder on a users local harddrive should not be dependent on that setting! If anything it should use whatever is in front of .sharepoint.com - but it should really just be a setting at admin.onedrive.com
At work, our Organization Name is relatively long and given that there is a limitation to the number of characters allowed on the C:-drive, we should be able to keep the name as short as possible.
Allan With Sørensen - we changed our Org name back in November due to concern over the Windows filepath limitations.
The only thing we noticed is that existing OD4B synch clients kept the old longer name, while only new OD4B synch setups , or recreated synch connections were updated with the new shorter name.
Tim
