SiteProperties.NewUrl not working

[Michael Schau]

Has anyone had any luck changing the SiteCollection url in SharePoint Online using CSOM?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/microsoft.online.sharepoint.tenantadministration.sit...

Here's a code sample (using OfficedDevPnP extensions) 

var tenant = new Tenant(context);

var siteProperties = tenant.GetSitePropertiesByUrl("<CurrentUrl>", false);
tenant.Context.Load(siteProperties);
tenant.Context.ExecuteQueryRetry();

siteProperties.NewUrl = "<NewUrl>";
siteProperties.Update();

tenant.Context.ExecuteQueryRetry();

I get an ArgumentException with the following message

The requested operation is not supported for site: <SiteUrl>

[#2]

what is the context when you add

var tenant=tenant(context) ??

[#3]

It is the Tenant Admin context.

Eg. <myurl>-admin.sharepoint.com

[#4]

Is this something new? So far this has not been supported...adding @VesaJuvonen to comment on this

[#5]

Well, it was added to CSOM a year ago, so I just assumed it was supported by now.

https://dev.office.com/blogs/new-sharepoint-csom-version-released-for-Office-365-march-2016

The property also exists in the SharePoint Online documentation.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/microsoft.online.sharepoint.tenantadministration.sit...

[#6]

how do you build the context with creds etc?

a example of mine

 SharePointService sharePointService = new SharePointService();
            AuthenticationManager authenticationManager = new AuthenticationManager();
            using (
                ClientContext adminContext =
                    authenticationManager.GetSharePointOnlineAuthenticatedContextTenant(Info.TenantAdminUri.AbsoluteUri, Info.UserName,
                        Info.UserPassWord))
            {
                adminContext.RequestTimeout = Timeout.Infinite;
             
            }

hope it helps

[#7]

I've tried both AppOnly context with full SiteCollection permissions and SharePointOnlineContext.

Neither works. 

I can however create/delete sitecollections and change other properties, but NewUrl doesn't work. So I believe my context is ok.

@Deleted you're saying that it works for you? My ServerLibraryVersion is 16.0.6511.1201.

[#8]

Hi I am just checking your code.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Since i see you get the url then want to update the url??

That will not work.

[#9]

Yes, I want to update the url. I'm creating a "buffer" of site collections and want to give them a proper url when they're taken into use.

If that doesn't work, then what is the usage of NewUrl?

Why is it available? Is it because is only works on premises?

[#10]

Hi @Michael Schau,

I just tried this with PnP PowerShell/CSOM and I'm finding the same results as you.

I had a bit of a further play with this where I tried setting NewUrl to ServerRelativeUrls or just setting it to the site specific part of the Url but this gave me just different errors. I would expect that as you can only update the site specific bit that you might not include the full url, but unfortenately that didn't work.

I thnk you might be right that this only works in on premises environments.

[#11]

have you read this?

public property Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.SiteProperties.NewUrl - The new URL for the site (updating this will trigger a site rename). Notice. This is not yet functional in the production when this blog post was written

https://dev.office.com/blogs/new-sharepoint-csom-version-released-for-Office-365-march-2016

[#12]

Hi @Deleted,

I tried this:

$site = Get-PnPTenantSite https://Mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite

$site.NewUrl = "https://Mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite2"

$site.Update()

$site.Context.ExecuteQuery()

and then I tried all variations of Urls for the $site.NewUrl = ""

[#13]

Yep, I've read it.

But as mentioned it was posted more than a year ago. Just assumed that it was funtioning in "Production" by now.

[#14]

Just checked with reflector code is implemented but can not debug it 😞