Can I use special characters in Teams and SharePoint names? #M365AMA
In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:
“Are there any considerations with using numbers and special characters in team names, SharePoint site names, and associated (connected) notebook names? Any gotchas?”
Check out the discussion here:
Participating in this discussion were:
- Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet
- Heather Severino @HeatherSeverino
- Mike Nelson @mikenelsonIO
- Kirsty McGrath @KirstyMcGrath13
- Hal Hostetler @TVWizard
Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:
- As mentioned by the panel: no spaces, no special characters!
- From the UConn KB: Naming Files on OneDrive and SharePoint [https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/10733125895/Naming+Files+on+OneDrive+and+SharePoint]
- The importance of a Teams naming convention [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/microsoft-teams-naming-importance]
- It is important to settle on and publish standards around your naming conventions as part of your governance activities. Here’s an example of Harvard’s naming conventions across SharePoint, O365 Groups, and Microsoft Teams [https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=4e738c1ddbcfb708dffdbc32ba96190e]
