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Modifiy Site URL From /sites To /teams For Existing Site, Or Move Site (SharePoint Online)

I have a question regarding SharePoint sites. I'd like to do some house-keeping on our SharePoint Online (we do not really use this yet in productive mode, we still run on an 2019 on-prem at the moment).

Yet our Online SharePoint is mainly used for self-creation of team sites for Teams stuff, and we also use it for a few sort of "root" sites like sales, finance, marketing etc. But the later mentioned sites are meant just as a PoC for now. During this stumbling around I figured out that these mentioned "root" sites where created long time ago by myself unter / and not under /sites or /teams. I probably created them with the old-fashioned Admin Center (sitemanager.aspx), and from there these are all visible and can be maintained. Within that old admin center none of my sites located under /sites or /teams are visible at all, I can still browse them though if I adjust my url like from https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sitemanager.aspx to https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/sites/MyPrivateTeam/_layouts/15/sitemanager.aspx. But there is a boundary here between / and /sites, I can never see it all in one place, either I see everything below / or everything below /sites/mysite. In the new Admin Center only stuff within /sites (or /teams) plus my root Site Collection itself are available. So there (New Admin) I am missing like https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/sales, but I'd see it if it where located unter https://<tenant-name>.sharepoint.com/sites/sales.

This whole separation from Admin Center point of view between either Old Admin (sitemanager.aspx) can handle / or New Admin can handle /sites + /teams is a bit weird to me, seems like it's not yet finished somehow in new admin.

I doubt that it would be a good idea to start my organizations structure with sites under / (root) instead of 7sites. But then wihtin /sites there are loads of Teams sites I don't really care for. At least I figured out how I can set site creation url to /teams from /sites, so that newly self-created (e.g. Teams) sites get a /teams URL now, so that I can distinct between them. But we already have several Teams sites with located under /sit4es.

Two questions:

  1. can anyone tell me what Microsoft's plans are with the new admin center, will it ever support also sites below/ so that I can manage these from there m(so basically any sites one tenant has). Or do you suggest to go for /sites managed path instead of / from the very beginning. Because there are some features in the new admin center like define a hub site which are missing in the old one.

  2. Does anyone know if there is a possibility to move a site like from /sites/mysite to /teams/mysite? I'd like to have this done due to organizational reasons for my existing Teams-connected sites. Or isn't this even possible?
    Start-SPOSiteContentMove -SourceSiteUrl https://tenant-name.sharepoint.com/sites/MySite -ValidationOnly -DestinationDataLocation https://tenant-namesharepoint.com/teams/MySite is not suiting my needs, because it only works for Multi-Geo tenants, and is meant to move sites between geographical locations.


kind regards,
Dieter

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@DieterTontsch-0908,

  1. Quote from Microsoft, Info about site creation source does not available for sites created before October 2020.

    Here is the article about "What's new in the SharePoint admin center" for your reference:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new-in-admin-center

  2. Currently, In SharePoint Online, /sites and /teams are the only wildcard managed paths available to create site collections.

    And we can not change the managed path that has been settled down when you create it.

    We can only change the site address after the managed path as shown below:

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Lastly, you can help us improve the admin center by sending us your suggestions and reporting bugs you encounter. In the lower-right corner of the admin center, click the Feedback button.
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@DieterTontsch-0908

Have you tried the above solutions?

Would you please provide us with an update on the status of your issue?

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DieterTontsch-0908 answered

Oh, I forgot to give my feedback. Thanks for your answer, in addition it is not posibile to change what I wanted to, which was the managed path, yes. So, I have not tried your suggestion since it is not what I need, but your answer might be helpful to others, because you clearly mention that managed path cannot be changed. Microsoft support did confirm this to me in the meantime too.

kind regards,
Dieter Tontsch

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