Users should close their files and not make edits during the address change.
Review the effects of changing a site address and let users know the following information: This can help reduce user confusion and calls to your help desk. Communicate the address change to usersīefore you change the address of a site, it's important to communicate the change to site users (generally anyone with the ability to edit or view the site). To change an additional site address, wait for another change to finish. You can change the address of up to 100 sites at a time. We recommend changing addresses during times when site usage is low. It can take about 10 minutes to change the site address (depending on the size of the site), and the site will be read-only during this time. For example, you can't move the site from "/sites" to "/teams." You can't change the domain ("contoso" in the previous example) or any other part of the path. You can change only the address of the site within the URL, for example: If the Publishing feature is currently activated or was previously activated for the site, then changing the site address is unsupported.