How to Change/Move a Teamsite Name & URL?

[peterlyttle]

Hello, I have been asked to do some renaming of teamsites etc. I know how to rename the Title - "Site Settings" - "Change site title and description" However this does not change the URL, is there anyway this can be changed eg

http://server/sites/team1

is given the title "Team 1" but I want to change it to Team12, how do I change the URL aswell to reflect the name change?

Also I have some Teams that are inside other teams that need to be moved back 1 level eg.

http://server/sites/team5/team9

needs to become

http://server/sites/team9

Does anyone know how to do this without having to lose data, permissions etc?

TIA
Pete

 

[SPV]

Which product/version is this?

If it's MOSS 2007 I would probably approach this by using the STSADM utility. It is my understanding that this preserves all settings related to the site collection.

First export the site ([tt]stsadm -o backup -url

http://server/sites/team1

-filename X:\blah.dat[/tt]).

Then import the site using the new URL ([tt]stsadm -o restore -url

http://server/sites/team12

-filename X:\blah.dat[/tt]).

Once you are happy that the new site works correctly, you should be able to remove the original.

Note for the import part ([tt]-o restore[/tt]). If the web application that serves the new URL is connected to more than one content db, SharePoint will choose the target content db itself. I do not know how to override the choice.

I'm fairly new to SharePoint myself, so someone may come up with a more effective/efficient method.

 

[peterlyttle]

Sorry forgot to add its MOSS 2003, ill look into the stsadm command to see if it supports 2003.

Cheers

 

[Beowulf005]

Do you have Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007(SD07)? BTW you can DL a free trial Click Here

If you do...
1. Using SD07 Backup

http://server/sites/team5/team9

2. Create a new site on the top level

http://server

3. When it asks you to choose a site template. don't and back up of the system
4. Using SD07 Restore the backup to the new address

http://server/sites/team9

5. All done


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