Changing the SharePoint title in SharePoint 2013
At Twynham we have been using SharePoint as a learning platform for over 10 years now, and one of the things we learnt early on was NOT to call it SharePoint. The reason for this is very simple and 2 fold.
We run a separate product called Eportal which is a front end for our MIS system, and back in 2003 our favourite learning platform was called SharePoint Portal Server. So the staff at Twynham got very confused having too many portals! So we called it “The Gateway” Also we always recommend to call SharePoint anything but SharePoint as we have found that calling it by the “trade name” brands it to Microsoft not your organisation.
The problem with SharePoint 2013 we found was that across the top said SharePoint and we had to change that to Twynham Gateway but how?
The answer to the problem lay in three lines of PowerShell (No surprise there really!) there is no way of doing this through the GUI (That I can find anyway) so not a lot of choice but to break out PowerShell from your SharePoint Admin utility belt.
$DCO=Get-SPWebApplication http://sp2013
$DCO.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = ‘<div class=”ms-core-brandingText”>Twynham Gateway</div>
$DCO.update()
But suppose you do not want any text at all well using the link below you can leave the <Div> tags empty which will result in no text showing at all as you can see in the line below.
$DCO.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = ‘<div class=”ms-core-brandingText”></div>
As you can see from the image below no text shows at all
But as you can see from the illustration below the title is now “Twynham Gateway” and everyone is happy. We loaded the webapp at the beginning of the PowerShell so if you have multiple webapps you will have to do this on all of them. But once run all subsites created in each of the webapps will retain the title that you set.
We run a separate product called Eportal which is a front end for our MIS system, and back in 2003 our favourite learning platform was called SharePoint Portal Server. So the staff at Twynham got very confused having too many portals! So we called it “The Gateway” Also we always recommend to call SharePoint anything but SharePoint as we have found that calling it by the “trade name” brands it to Microsoft not your organisation.
The problem with SharePoint 2013 we found was that across the top said SharePoint and we had to change that to Twynham Gateway but how?
The answer to the problem lay in three lines of PowerShell (No surprise there really!) there is no way of doing this through the GUI (That I can find anyway) so not a lot of choice but to break out PowerShell from your SharePoint Admin utility belt.
$DCO=Get-SPWebApplication http://sp2013
$DCO.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = ‘<div class=”ms-core-brandingText”>Twynham Gateway</div>
$DCO.update()
But suppose you do not want any text at all well using the link below you can leave the <Div> tags empty which will result in no text showing at all as you can see in the line below.
$DCO.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = ‘<div class=”ms-core-brandingText”></div>
As you can see from the image below no text shows at all
But as you can see from the illustration below the title is now “Twynham Gateway” and everyone is happy. We loaded the webapp at the beginning of the PowerShell so if you have multiple webapps you will have to do this on all of them. But once run all subsites created in each of the webapps will retain the title that you set.
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