SharePoint 2013 TIP: how to easily rename and retitle a website

You can easily rename and re-title a website by getting an instance of the website object and setting its Name and Title properties, like so:

$web=Get-SPWeb -Identity "http://MyFarm.com/MyRootWebsite/MyWebsite"
$web.Title="My New Website Title"
$web.name="MyNewWebsiteName"
$web.Update()

which gives

http://MyFarm.com/MyRootWebsite/MyNewWebsiteName

References

• Rename a web
• Get-SPWeb
• SPWeb class
• SPWeb.Name property
• Rename a site collection
• Get-SPSite
• SPSite.Rename method
• Customer Question: Renaming Site Collections in SharePoint 2013
• How to Rename SharePoint 2013 Site Collections Without Prayer or Sobbing
• Rename a web application
• Get-SPWebApplication
• SPWebApplication members
• How to Rename SharePoint Web Application Name and URL
• General
• Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage sites in SharePoint 2013

Notes

• This works for subwebsites off the root.
• To rename the site collection, see the references above.