How to Rename a SharePoint Site and Change Its URL Without Breaking Everything

For a long time, renaming a SharePoint site was treated as a mistake you paid for forever. Pick the wrong name, live with it. URLs were fragile, links broke, and the safest advice was simple: don’t touch it.

That advice is outdated! SharePoint supports renaming sites and changing their URLs in a controlled, supported way. The risk today is not the platform. It’s the assumption that nothing has changed.

This article explains why renaming a SharePoint site matters, what actually happens when you do it, and how to do it safely.

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By João Ferreira Feb 24, 2026 Administration, PowerShell 0 Comments

How to Create a SharePoint Site Collection App Catalog using PnP PowerShell

Sometimes you need to test SharePoint solutions in your tenant before making them available to everyone or simply to restrict the use to a subset of users by making them available in specific sites. If you are a SharePoint administrator and already have the global SharePoint app catalog created, you will be able to create site collection app catalogs for your site collections individually. Unfortunately, this feature is not available through the SharePoint admin UI and will require you to use one of the available PowerShell modules to manage SharePoint. In this article, we will see how to do it using PnP PowerShell.

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By João Ferreira Jan 26, 2024 Administration 0 Comments