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Mark-Kashman
Aug 31, 2016Former Employee
ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
Today marks the beginning of bringing the full power of SharePoint to Office 365 Groups, with additional benefits to SharePoint Online all up! New and existing groups will get modern team sites, whic...
Sep 01, 2016
Mark-Kashman with respect to customizing the site URL mentioned in the comments of the blog post, this is not quite "vanity" per se, but a desire to keep the URLs tidy. Even when the sites are standalone and not in a site structure (where 256 path names make short URLs very important).
e.g. Team Name is Emerging Technologies and Social Collaboration
They may want the URL to be "emsc"
At least group URLs don't include @%20 in the URLs. That's a super (long-overdue) positive step for sure.
Ivan54
Sep 02, 2016Bronze Contributor
Great news. Could someone please clarify if and how the root SharePoint Site Collection (domain.sharepoint.com) will be affected by this, for example if its still untouched?
Will this also get group features?