How to Rename Site collection Url in Office 365 ?

There is no out-of-the-box command in SharePoint to rename a site collection URL, You can only rename it through OOTB. You will need to do a backup of the site collection, delete the site collection and restore the backup under a new site collection URL.

The command line for doing this would look like:

1. stsadm –o backup –url http://myserver/sites/myurlname -overwrite -filename backupsite1.dat

2. stsadm –o deletesite –url http://myserver/sites/myurlname

3. stsadm –o restore –url http://myserver/sites/myurlNEWname -filename backupsite1.dat

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Vijay S11y ago
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There is no out-of-the-box command in SharePoint to rename a site collection URL, You can only rename it through OOTB. You will need to do a backup of the site collection, delete the site collection and restore the backup under a new site collection URL.
The command line for doing this would look like:
1.     stsadm –o backup –url http://myserver/sites/myurlname -overwrite -filename backupsite1.dat
2.     stsadm –o deletesite –url http://myserver/sites/myurlname
3.     stsadm –o restore –url http://myserver/sites/myurlNEWname -filename backupsite1.dat

Please Mark as Answer if it helps You. Thanks in advance :)
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Rajkiran Swain11y ago
thanks Vijay
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