changing url for /teams to /sites

[priya216]

Hello

I have many /sites which uses the URL I now require for many communication sites. I am struggling how I can use the URL as its currently being used for a team site.

i.e /sites/IT - I want to change that to /teams/IT so that I can have a communication site addressed /sites/IT.

Any ideas how I can do this ?

[#2]

You can change that in the SharePoint admin center under Settings and Site creation, if that's what you're asking.

https://yourtenantname-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx#/settings/SiteCreation

[#3]

@ChristianJBergstrom 

I am aware of the setting under site creation but that is for new sites.

I have 120 existing sites which have the managed path /sites and they should be /teams how can I change this ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

I have set up under site creating for new sites to be set up as /teams and for comms sites to be /sites.

Thanks

Priya

[#4]

Anyone able to offer help on this Priya's question? I have the same question.

[#5]

I have this use case as well, where I would like to change existing sites connected to Teams (O365 Group-connected)  to use the /teams/ prefix.

[#6]

@priya216 @Star-D @MaximillianC @ChristianJBergstrom 

Hey, i am trying to change my SharePoint-URLs in a migration project as well. I don't think that you can use the SharePoint Admin Center to change single /sites/ -sites to /teams/ -sites and vice versa but as always PowerShell is the answer.

Step-by-Step:

1. open PowerShell or ISE on your desktop.

2. install the module "Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell"

3. connect to your SharePoint Admin-URL with PowerShell "https://[orgname]-admin.sharepoint.com/"

4. Login with a Tenant/Global- or SharePoint-Admin

5. get the URL of you current site you want to change "https://[orgname].sharepoint.com/sites/testSite"

6. change the url with the PowerShell-Command

7. Disconnect

PowerShell-Code:

# optional
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

# import module
Import-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

# connect to SPOService
Connect-SPOService -Url https://[orgname]-admin.sharepoint.com/


# Change URL
Start-SPOSiteRename -Identity https://[orgname].sharepoint.com/sites/testSite -NewSiteUrl https://[orgname].sharepoint.com/teams/testSite 

# disconnect SPOService
Disconnect-SPOService

 To change /teams to /sites just change the URLs.

To validate a change you can add -ValidateOnly to the Start-SPOSiteRenam Cmdlet.

# validate Cmdlet
Start-SPOSiteRename -Identity https://[orgname].sharepoint.com/sites/testSite -NewSiteUrl https://[orgname].sharepoint.com/teams/testSite -ValidateOnly

Hope i could help.

Reminder:

Communicate the Change with the users of the site and try to avoid changing URLs in business hours.

• When the change will happen
• What the new URL will be
• Users should close their files and not make edits during the address change
• Users should check the site recycle bin to make sure it contains no files they want to keep
• File permissions and sharing won't change

Best Regards

[#7]

Hi, I tried these steps for resolution, but these steps are not working for content site, i tried to chnage content site URL but unable to that, please provide any alternate solution for this.