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OneTechBeyond
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Jun 02, 2018

Impacts of changing default domain in Office 365 tenancy?

A client of mine has decided to change their company name and default email domain, an I have a few questions about what this impacts. Can I simply add the new domain to my current Office365 te...
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After my post in August, we found more issues with changing the UPNs for existing user accounts.  Given the amount of pain this would have inflicted on our end users, the decision was made to wait for Microsoft to come up with a better process for renaming the tenant/UPNs.

 

I haven't looked into 3rd party options.

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dickiebird
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Jul 18, 2019

Hi Kelly, Have you done any more with this process, we are about to rebrand our company and worried about the exact same issues.

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    Jul 19, 2019

    Hi dickiebird - No, we're still waiting for a more user friendly process from Microsoft.

     

    However, Microsoft announced the ability to easily change a SharePoint site collection's URL, including redirects (look at this post for the "site rename" info), which is a very good sign.

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      Maridee26
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 02, 2019

      Hi Deleted 

      Any updated information on this by any chance?

      Thanks so much for your contribution here!

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        Oct 02, 2019

        Hi Maridee26  - No update, but that's because our IT department has been working on other projects and we haven't gone back to Microsoft for an update.

         

        That said, our local Microsoft team has not reached out with any updates either, so I suspect that whatever they are working on isn't finished yet.

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