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Site name displays "Communication page" after renaming
Hello, I am a Sharepoint Admin from Germany. When I always rename pages, some people display the name of the page as "communication page". (see attachment) So the correct renamed name does not ...
Every SharePoint site name can be rename except the domain name.
To rename a SharePoint site take the following steps:
1. Navigate to your SharePoint admin center
2. In the active site section, select the site in question
3. on the URL tab, click on edit to edit the name to your preferred name, you can also change the name and the URL, except the domain name .
4. Click save and refresh.
Due to the workload on SharePoint servers and datacenters there might be a delay in it taking effect immediately.
Also you can use the below powersehll command in getting it done.
1. Download a SharePoint online management shell from microsft
2. Connect to SPOService
Connect-SPOService -url https://Contoso-admin.sharepoint.com/
3. Run this command to confirm the site can be renamed
Start-SPOSiteRename -Identity <SiteURL> -NewSiteUrl <NewSiteURl> -ValidationOnly
4. Once you can the site can be renamed then you run this command to rename the site.
Start-SPOSiteRename -Identity <SiteURL> -NewSiteUrl <NewSiteURl>
Kindly write back if you face new challenge while doing the above