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Hi All,

I have a unified group with an associated SharePoint site. The group's email address is ugroup1@contoso.com, and the SharePoint site is https://servicenow.contoso.com/sites/ugroup1.

I have renamed the unified group's display name to "ugroup2", changed the alias and email address to ugroup2@contoso.com, and updated the SharePoint site URL to https://servicenow.contoso.com/sites/ugroup2.

However, when I try to create a new communication site with the previous name (https://servicenow.contoso.com/sites/ugroup1), I receive an error stating that the site address is available with modifications. I have properly updated ugroup1 to ugroup2, but I am still encountering the issue. Please guide me

Answer 1

Hi @Glenn Maxwell .

As part of changing a SharePoint site address, moving a site to a different geo location, or swapping a site, we automatically create redirects to ensure that links pointing to the prior URL continue to work. These redirects are sites that use a special site template at the prior site URL.

In some cases, you might want to free up the old URL to use it for a new site. To do this, you need to delete the redirect.

Here are steps:

1. Download the latest SharePoint Online Management Shell.
2. Connect to SharePoint as a Global Administrator or SharePoint Administrator in Microsoft 365. To learn how, see Getting started with SharePoint Online Management Shell.
3. Run the following command:

      Remove-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/OldSiteName
   

4. When prompted, confirm that you want to delete the redirect.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/manage-site-redirects

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