Change site collection title, description, logo, and site collection administrator in SharePoint

This SharePoint tutorial explains, how to change the site collection, title, and logo in SharePoint Online or SharePoint 2013/2016.

Also, we will see how to change the site collection administrator in SharePoint Online or SharePoint 2013/2016.

Change site collection title, description, and logo in SharePoint

Step 1: Login to your SharePoint site -> Go to the Settings gear icon in the right side of the page -> Click on Site settings.

Step 2: Go to the Title, description and logo under Look and feel section.

Step 3: Next you will redirect to a new page where you can able to provide the Site title, description, and logo. Read: How to change the site logo in SharePoint 2016/2013/Online.

Note: We can also update the SharePoint Site title, description and logo using PowerShell command.

#Get the Web
$Web= Get-SPWeb "https://pikasha12.sharepoint.com/sites/DLH"

#Set the Title & Description
$Web.Title = "Enjoy SharePoint"

#Set Site Logo Icon
$web.SiteLogoUrl = "https://pikasha12.sharepoint.com/sites/DLH/SiteAssets/Mylogo.png"
 
#Set Logo Description
$web.SiteLogoDescription = "Logo for Enjoy SharePoint"

#Update the changes
$web.Update()

Note: We can also update the site Title and description using CSOM in SharePoint.

string siteUrl = "https://pikasha12.sharepoint.com/sites/DLH";

//Costruttore 
using (ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl))
{
          //change title and description of siteUrl 
           Web website = clientContext.Web;

           website.Title = "Enjoy SharePoint";
           website.Description = "SharePoint Hub.";

           website.Update();

           clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
}

Change site collection administrator in SharePoint

Now we will see how we can Change site collection administrator in SharePoint Online. The same way you can also change site collection administrator in SharePoint 2013/2016.

Step 1: Login to your SharePoint site -> Go to the Settings gear icon in the right side of the page -> Click on Site settings.

Step 2: Click on Site collection administrators under user and permissions.

Step 3: Enter the name which you want to set administrator in the site and click on OK button.

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The above steps need to follow to change the site collection Title, Description and logo in SharePoint. Also, we say how we can change the site collection administrator in SharePoint Online.