Can I change the root Business Unit's name?

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Posted on by MichelleM

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Will it cause me any issues if I change the name of the root business unit? Or is it just a label?

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Naveen Ganeshe 3,397 User Group Leader on at

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Hello Michelle,

You can't rename this. Please see these threads:

community.dynamics.com/.../449999

community.dynamics.com/.../crm-2016-how-to-rename-the-default-business-unit

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Thanks, I had seen those articles but those threads are quite old so I wondered if things had changed more recently.

I came to ask because I am able to click on the Business Unit to open the edit window and the save button appears to be active.

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Hi Partner,

Unfortunately you cannot change the Root Business unit name, Though it is giving an option to edit and save it should throw an error once you click on save. You can try this in trial environment

The organization (also known as the root business unit) is the top level of a Microsoft Dynamics 365 business unit hierarchy. Dynamics 365 automatically creates the organization when you install or provision Dynamics 365. You can’t change or delete the organization name.

you can refer this article as well https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dynamicscrm-2016/administering-dynamics-365/dn531056(v=crm.8)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

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Arun Vinoth 11,615 Moderator on at

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You can rename them using small customizations tweak.

The Parent BU field requirement has to be modified before renaming the root BU.

https://crmbusiness.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/crm-2016-how-to-rename-the-default-business-unit/

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That's really helpful, thanks all.

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Arun Vinoth 11,615 Moderator on at

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As a token of thanks, you can accept the answers that helped you.

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Nick Metcalfe 5 on at

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An alternative to customising is updating it via excel. You can export the Business units to excel, update the name in excel and then re-import the data to update the root Business unit name

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Prabhakar Reddy 5 on at

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We can not edit or rename root business unit in dynamics

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GaryC79 on at

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As an update to this, now you can make the change directly without making any adjustments to whether the parent BU is required or not right from the maker portal. I have Business Units inside of a solution, I went to edit the table (see below) then made the change directly into the gird and saved. As to whether or not you should do it, it shouldn't cause any issues assuming you don't have any code that relies on the pre-existing business unit's name. If you do, I'd suggest updating or creating something on update.

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Muhammad Ainuddin 112 on at

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You can make the field optional using javascript too. Run in console devtool browser
Xrm.Page.getAttribute("parentbusinessunitid").setRequiredLevel("none");

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