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Custom/Vanity domain name/URL for Sharepoint Online
James Boman Hi James - really interesting find! Have you discovered any further on how this was accomplished by chance? My organization is interested in pursuing all efforts to finding how this can be done vs standing up a whole new tenant. Would love to hear your efforts/progress thus far!
Im wondering about to have a IIS internal in company to fake url's for sharepoint online.
Anyone have try this approach?
then i can create a cname in my internal dns, point it to an iis who move all requests to sharepoint online.
Can someone try this and confirm if it works or not?
http://howtomicrosoftofficetutorials.blogspot.com/2017/05/rename-your-sharepoint-online-public.html
pranaysahith I just tried it and unfortunately it no longer works.
At the step in the wizard where you're prompted to choose the domain purpose (that is, the services you want to use with the domain), select only SharePoint Online.
That doesn't seem to be an option for me.
- It is not working for me as well, sad 😞
Vander_Pina I have done something similiar using Netscaler ADC URL transform feature and using Nginx.
It should be possible with apache2 and IIS (however never tried).
I literally found this thread searching on whether there is a supported way to do this. Looks like we will continue to use URL transform.
Right - so again, the ask is to just have Microsoft allow us to rename URLs on domains we own. Redirects, self-hosted apache, nginx, hacks, etc. are not what needs to happen. Microsoft, come on already.
My experience with the Azure and office 365 stack is yes there are lots of things that are simple when you run the stuff on prem that aren't possible with the public cloud stuff. We are very much hybrid for this reason.
Vander_Pina That is what Smart Links do without needing IIS. See my post above from 2018. We use them as easy to remember URLs in our domain that redirect to the SharePoint Online site collection in question.
Vander_PinaLet me know if it works.
I have to say I am still shocked Microsoft is unable to do this. It's very frustrating not to be able to clean this up for users and have a clean URL that can be immediately understood.
