How to Change URL of a SharePoint Online Site

After creating a SharePoint Online site, we may sometimes need to change the address of a SharePoint site. In this tutorial, we will learn how to change URL of a SharePoint Online site. We will change the URL of a SharePoint Online team site as well as a Sharepoint Online communication site.

Change SharePoint Online Modern Team sites URL (Office 365 group connected site)

In this section, we will see how to change the URL of a SharePoint Online site via the SharePoint admin center. This is a modern team site with office365 groups connected with it. Here, we will represent a step-by-step guide, to achieving this goal.

• Open the SharePoint Admin center. (Make sure you have SharePoint admin access) or, browse the following format to sign up for the SharePoint admin center with the respective Microsoft credentials.

https://<tenantname>-admin.sharepoint.com/

For example,

https://<tsinfotechnologies>-admin.sharepoint.com/

• Once the SharePoint admin center is opened, we can find an option i.e., Sites in the left navigation bar. Under the Sites, it contains 2 more options such as:
  • Active sites: This contains all the Active sites belonging to organizations that we can sort, and filter.
  • Deleted sites: It contains all the deleted sites, retains them for 93 days, and permanently deletes them.

• Under the Active sites, it displays all the active sites, that come under the SharePoint admin center. From them, select an active site for which you need to change the site URL.

• Once the site is selected, click on the edit icon. It will redirect to the General settings of Financemanagement where we can customize the site name, hub association, and storage limit including the URL.

• To change the URL, click on the Edit option under the URL.
• Next, it will redirect to the Edit URL page where we can change the URL of the selected SharePoint site.

• Suppose we will change the site address from Financemanagement to Finance management address and click the Save option.
• It will show whether the SharePoint site address is available or not. Within a while, it will update to the new site URL. And we can find the updated site URL in the Active sites Section.

This is how to change the SharePoint Online Modern Team site URL address ( Office365 group connected).

Change Modern SharePoint site URL (without Office 365 group connected)

In this section, we will see how to Change the SharePoint site URL in the modern Team site (without Office365 Connection)

SharePoint allows you to change a team site URL even if that is not connected to Office 365. For this, we need to log into the SharePoint admin center from the browser.

Once the SharePoint admin center is opened, follow the above-mentioned procedures to change the URL on the team site.

This is how to change the SharePoint Online Modern Team site’s URL address (Office365 group not connected).

Change SharePoint Online communication site URL

In this section, we will see how to change the URL address of the SharePoint Online Communication site via the SharePoint admin center. Here, we will show you a step-by-step guide, to achieve this goal.

Similarly, we need to follow the steps mentioned above, to change the Communication site URL:

• Log in to the SharePoint admin center as mentioned above.
• Under the sites, Navigate to the Active sites option.
• By clicking Active sites, it displays all the active sites, that come under the Microsoft SharePoint admin center. From them, select an active site that you want to edit.

• Once the site is selected, click on the edit icon. It will redirect to the General settings of the Communication site where we can customize the site name, hub association, and storage limit including the URL.

• To change the URL, click on the Edit option under the URL.
• Next, it will redirect to the Edit URL page where we can change the URL of the selected SharePoint site.

• Within a while, it will update the new site URL.
• We can find the updated SharePoint site URL in the Active sites Section.

This is how to Change SharePoint Online Communication site URL address.

What happens to the former URL address after changing it

• When we change the site URL, it’s not actually changed. It creates a new SharePoint site, automatically redirecting Old URL to the new site address.
• Similarly, the files or folders shared through the Old URL will still work, as they are redirected to the existing one.
• But, it displays the New URL site address in the Active sites.

Conclusion

From this SharePoint Online tutorial, we have learned how to change the URL of a SharePoint team site based on the below scenarios:

• How to change the SharePoint Online Modern Team site URL?
• How to Change SharePoint Communication site URL address?