#M365AMA Can I use special characters in Teams and SharePoint names?
Channel: Christian Buckley
Date: 27/01/2024

“Are there any considerations with using numbers and special characters in team names, SharePoint site names, and associated (connected) notebook names? Any gotchas?”

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]