Renaming a site collection made easy
February 11, 2008 Leave a comment
If you've ever tried to rename a site collection without SP1 for wss installed you know the headache it can be. A high level overview of this is :
1. Backup Site Collection to file.
2. Delete Site Collection.
3. Create Site Collection with the new name.
4. Restore Site collection from backup taken in step 1.
Its a fairly clunky way to do it, fortunately since SP1 has been released its become really simple :
stsadm -o renamesite -oldurl http://OLDURL -newurl http://NEWURL
Its really made my life easier 🙂
Mark Rhodes 