Timeline for best appraoch to modify a site collection url inside sharepoint 2013
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 8:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:18 | comment | added | Waqas Sarwar MVP♦ | yes, go ahead. sfaeway | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:17 | vote | accept | John John | ||
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | John John | so i will run these 3 commands:- 1) Backup-spsite -identity http//servername/customer/questions -path c:\c.bak –force 2) Remove-SPsite -identity http//servername/customer/questions 3) Restore-spsite -identity servername/customer/generalquestions -path c:\c.bak –force ,,,,,, i tired this on test machine and seems it is working well.. so can you advice | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:09 | comment | added | Waqas Sarwar MVP♦ | $Site.rename...Basically for changing from Path-based site collection ot HSNC. MSFT never advertise from path based to Path-based url rename. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | John John | yes i will follow backup/restore also,, i tried using $site.Rename on my test machine but the old and new site collection did not work , i got unexpected error when try accessing the new url.and the old url is no more found ... | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:59 | comment | added | Waqas Sarwar MVP♦ | I had 100% sucess in the backup and restore process | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:57 | comment | added | Waqas Sarwar MVP♦ | yes both are same, I tested both personally couple of times | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:55 | comment | added | John John | so do you have any idea if the end result of using backup/restore and using copy-spsite will be the same ? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:53 | comment | added | Waqas Sarwar MVP♦ | Backup site collection is old traditional way to do. Yes you can delete the site collection before restore...Copy spsite is new commandi n SP2013, which will save u some time. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:49 | comment | added | John John | can you advice on my above 2 questions please? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:43 | comment | added | John John | i think i will go with the backup/restore since i use it to do a back up for the my site collections, while i did not use the Copy-SPsite before.. so which approach is better ? second question, i know that SP allow to restore a site collection under the same content DB , although i should not do this since i will end up having duplicate GUIDs inside the old CS and inside the new SC .. so my question if i need to remove the old CS before restoring it on the new URL ,, because you mentioned i can restore on new url then remove the old CS .. | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 12:36 | history | answered | Waqas Sarwar MVP♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |