A valid admin site in Office 365 is always https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com
Tenant is the .onmicrosoft.com name that you choose when registering for a subscription.
Tenant Account Setup
Whether you choose a vanity domain, change the name of your public website, the admin url always remains: https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com
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A valid admin site in Office 365 is always https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com
Tenant is the .onmicrosoft.com name that you choose when registering for a subscription.
Tenant Account Setup
Whether you choose a vanity domain, change the name of your public website, the admin url always remains: https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com
By clicking this link https://admin.microsoft.com/sharepoint?page=home&modern=true, you will be able to find the SharePoint Online Admin Center URL.
I don't have a lot of experience with Microsoft SharePoint, so everything I'm about to say is what I found out on the interwebs, so if I'm completely wrong, please let me know. I recently took a job that requires me to create and maintain SharePoint sites for our organization, so I told my manager I needed to be designated a SharePoint admin so I can create the hub site and customize the colors for branding. This morning he told me our IT guy set me up as SharePoint admin, but when I try going into the admin center, I am unable to get in through 365, and when I try the URL workaround it says the site can't be reached. I'm assuming I can't just be a SharePoint admin without becoming a full admin, but wanted to double check here.
Generally, the central admin URL would be with below format after installing the SharePoint:
http://machinename:portnumber
Here the port number will be the one that you have given during the installation.
The MSDN article says CA port number can be changed using the below PowerShell command:
Set-SPCentralAdministration -Port 8282(example - you can give your own number)
MSDN Source:
Set-SPCentralAdministration
You can try the above step.
And also we can change the central administration URL by other ways:
How to change the URL for SharePoint Central Administration site
To change the URL for SharePoint Central Administration URL:
- Open Registry editor
- Backup the registry before making any changes!!!
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\WSS and change the value of CentralAdministrationURL to whatever you want to be
References:
How to change the URL for SharePoint Central Administration site
How to change the URL for SharePoint Central Administration site
it is recommended that you need to create a separate web application (other than CA) for regular use. CA web application is back-end work and it is only provision on 1 server and if you have multi-server environment then it will not provision on other servers ( Web front ends).
what i recommend:
- Create DNS Alias which point to the server or Load balancer
- Create a Web Application in the Central admin and use the DNS in it
- Create a root level site collection
- Update the AAM via central admin
Lastly, in your case, you have to backup the existing Site collection and Restore it to new web application.
Sigh, found it. It’s a subsite off the main site. No idea why I didn’t think of that earlier.
Of all the 365 things, SharePoint is the one area I don’t spend a lot of time in.
I have a site that I can’t find in the SharePoint admin center. It’s also not in Groups or Teams.
When I look at the URL there’s no /sites/ in it. It’s an old site and the person who created it is no longer here.
The URL looks like this:
https://mycompany.sharepoint.com/sitename/SitePages/Home.aspx
Normal sites look like this:
https://mycompany.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/SitePages/Home.aspx
I am missing something very obvious here after an already long day. I get the feeling this is something I’d be able to find in the classic admin panel, but that was removed on 1/1/21.