Changing our SPO tenant domain name, will folder- and file-level links break?
My company is planning to change their SharePoint domain name in the next month, and I've been working on assessing the risks and identifying impacts/mitigations, largely based on the documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/change-your-sharepoint-domain-name
It states: "When you rename your SharePoint domain, we create a redirect at the previous address, which will expire 1 year after the rename."
We have some third-party integrations with SharePoint that involve a separate system storing absolute-path links (as opposed to sharing links) to project folders, for example: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/ProjectSite/Projects/MyProjectFolder/MySubFolder
There may also be full-path links to files as well.
My question is, for anyone who has done one of these domain name changes: Do these absolute-path links (and sharing links) continue to work after the domain change, or will they all need to be updated immediately? I am not very familiar with how site redirects work, so my concern is that the redirect might send you to the base site URL or something rather than all the way to the intended folder.
Thanks in advance!
Posted Oct 6, 2025, 7:12 PM UTC