Guide

Limitations to Provisioning Naming Conventions

Due to limitations imposed by Microsoft, the following limitations for names in provisioning are as follows:

Teams Provisioning - Teams Name and Teams Description.

Allowed:

  • ASCII character set 0-127 except the following: { } < >
  • Asian, Latin, Cyrillic, Arab, Greek, etc.
  • Emojis.

Teams Provisioning - M365 Group mailNickname

Allowed:

  • ASCII character set 0-127 except the following: @ () \\ [ ] { } \” ; : <> , SPACE

Additional information:

  • If custom mailNickname is not specified, it will be generated from the team name.

  • mailNickname accepts only ASCII characters and a few symbols, unallowed symbols, and non-ASCII letters will be removed.

  • All symbols and numbers at the beginning of mailNickname will be removed.

  • “_test_name” -> “test_name” (underscore is a valid symbol, but mailNickname can’t start with a symbol, so it’s removed).

  • If after sanitization mailNickame is unusable, it will be replaced with the generated one.

    • empty mailNickname -> “msteams_XXXXXX”, where X = [a-z0-9] (mailNickname can’t be empty).
    • ”…” -> “msteams_XXXXXX”, where X = [a-z0-9] (underscores and dots are valid symbols but mailNickame should have at least one letter).
    • Name “사과” -> ” ” for mailNickname (not allowed symbols will be deleted). The mailNickname can’t be empty, so we use generated one “msteams_d4g67o”.

Teams Provisioning - Custom Site Url

Allowed:

  • a - Z, 0 - 9, and a few symbols.

Additional Information:

  • Even if some symbols are allowed, they have limitations: siteUrl can’t start with the symbol and can’t be created with only symbols.
  • . (dot) is not allowed and will be removed.
  • If siteUrl can’t be created from the name it will generated from this template “site_d4g67o”.

SharePoint Provisioning - SharePoint Site Name and SharePoint Site Description.

Allowed:

  • ASCII character set 0-127 except the following: { } < >
  • Asian, Latin, Cyrillic, Arab, Greek, etc.
  • Emojis.

SharePoint Provisioning - M365 Group mailNickname

Allowed:

  • ASCII character set 0-127 except the following: @ () \\ { } [ ] \” ; : <> , SPACE

Additional Information:

  • mailNickname accepts only ASCII characters and few symbols, unallowed symbols, and non-ASCII letters will be removed

SharePoint Provisioning - Custom Site Url

Allowed:

  • a - Z, 0 - 9, and a few symbols

Additional Information:

  • Even if some symbols are allowed, they have limitations: siteUrl can’t start with the symbol and can’t be created with only symbols.
  • . (dot) is not allowed and will be removed.
  • If siteUrl can’t be created from the name it will generated from this template “site_d4g67o”

Viva Engage Provisioning - Community Name and Community Description

Allowed:

  • ASCII character set 0-127 except the following: { } <>
  • Asian, Latin, Cyrillic, Arab, Greek, etc.
  • Emojis

Additional Information:

  • Symbols and numbers could be anywhere in the name, but there should be at least one letter. Names without letters are not allowed.

Last updated: 11/25/2024