SharePoint 2013: How to change the Suite Link Bar

The Suite Link Bar is what you see at the top of the page, just below the browser menu bar:

By default, it displays the simple "SharePoint" text.  What you see displayed here is contained in the web application's SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml property. If you interrogate this property, you will see the following:

PS C:\Users\spAdmin> $wa = Get-SPWebApplication http://App1:5000
PS C:\Users\spAdmin> $wa.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml
<div class="ms-core-brandingText">SharePoint</div>

You can modify this property at any time using PowerShell.  You can even configure this as a convenient hyperlink.  The next steps show you how.

Procedure

1. Run this script to just change the text:

   $wa = Get-SPWebApplication http://App1:5000
   $SuiteBarText="<div class='ms-core-brandingText'>Central Admin: Corporate Site <font color='red'><b>(Production)</b></font></div>"
   $wa.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml=$SuiteBarText
   $wa.update()

2. Run this script to change the text and configure it as a hyperlink:

   $wa = Get-SPWebApplication http://App1:5000
   $SuiteBarText="<div class='ms-core-brandingText'><a href='http://App1:5000'>Central Admin: Corporate Site</a> <font color='red'><b>(Production)</b></font></div>"
   $wa.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml=$SuiteBarText
   $wa.update()

References

• SharePoint 2013 Central Administration Productivity Tip
• SPWebApplication.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml property
• Change top left text to Hyper Link