In this post we will discuss how we can change Logo of a SharePoint 2016 site using browser as well as we discuss how to change SharePoint 2016 site log using PowerShell. Also we will see what is the recommended size of SharePoint 2016 logo. The same way also we can change logo in SharePoint 2013 site. Company Logo is very important in any organization and SharePoint 2016 or 2013 provides easiest way to use your company logo as well as to change logo. By default the logo appears in the top left corner which looks like below:
SharePoint 2016 logo size:
The default sharepoint 2016 logo size appears in below size:
Width: 180 pixels
Height: 65 pixels
And the logo looks like below. But definitely every organization, or every department or even every team wants to change this logo and put their own logo.
Change SharePoint 2016 Logo using Browser:
To change a logo, open SharePoint 2016 site and then click on the gear icon and then click on Site Settings.
Then click on "Title, description, and logo" which is under Look and Feel section.
This is the place where you can change your site Title, Description as well as Logo. Then to insert a Logo you can insert from your computer as well as you can insert it from SharePoint.
When you select Insert from Computer, it will ask you to browse the Logo image file. By default it will upload to SiteAssets document library. Apart from that you can also choose From SharePoint and upload to any document library. It looks like below:
Apart from that if you have multiple site collections and you want to use the same logo then you can upload the logo into 15 hive folder and can give the logo url like below:
/_layouts/15/images/sp-training-logo.png
Change SharePoint 2016 Site Logo using PowerShell:
As a SharePoint administrator or developer we can also change SharePoint 2016 site logo using PowerShell. We can run the below PowerShell script using
Windows PowerShell ISE or by using
Visual Studio code.
$web = Get-SPWeb "http://SiteURL"
$web.SiteLogoUrl = "http://Path of the image file"
$web.SiteLogoDescription = "EnjoySharePoint.com company Logo"
$web.Update()
Hope this article will be helpful.