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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.
SHeathfield , an update that might be useful on this subject. I did try a few days later and it did work perfectly. The only thing I had to do was logout from Teams and login again, before syncing. For me, it took 4 days.
- “Currently, updating the organization name does not update it for configured clients.”
This statement makes me curious as to how problematic this change might become if this means OneDrive and SharePoint would need to be reconfigured on each device after the change to receive the new organisation name.
I’m not sure if this would mean that all users would be kicked out of OneDrive or if they would continue to keep working on the old organisation name until they naturally replace their computer.
I don't want to update the org name manually for my entire organisation, only to work around the Windows character limit for a couple of users.