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Changing Modern Site Icons
Diving into creation of a new Sharepoint Online Site for our company.
Trying to stick with ‘Modern’ elements everywhere I can, and am learning a lot. Want to see who far I can get in branding/customizing the site completely out-of-the-box.
Home page will be the default ‘Classic’ page I got from creation of site collection, which is using promoted links for navigation to other sites, Icons for promoted links are also intended to be the site icons for the ones they navigate to.
Changing site icon for classic sites is easy enough from 'Look and Feel' in setting, change to group Icon can be done from Outlook online, but I found no obvious way to change site icons for Modern Sites. Perhaps I am just missing the obvious someplace.
I was able to do it by replacing the default __siteIcon__.jpg file in Site Assets with the custom one. So this is ‘a way’ that works, but is it ‘the way’ I should do it.
- You should be able to change group icons from outlook on the web, which should then sync to the teamsite.
This worked before. Now it doesn't. It's bugged. You can look up my other thread about this.
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Just to make sure I understand--if I'm still on hosted Exchange (haven't been transitioned to Outlook online) I'm unable to change the icon for a modern team site?
Peter Mcdermott -- you can still change it.
Use the link below but modify it for the site icon of the site you want to change --
https://yourtenantname.sharepoint.com/yoursite/_layouts/15/prjsetng.aspx
for instance, if you tenant name is "nintendo" and the site you want to change is "/sites/mario"
https://nintendo.sharepoint.com/sites/mario/_layouts/15/prjsetng.aspx
Once on that link, click on "FROM COMPUTER" to upload an icon or paste in a URL of the icon you want to use. Note, it sounds like you might need to use a .jpg but I could swear a .png has worked for me in the past.
Thanks for the solution. It looks like this works for a split second and then it reverts back to the generated text.
Has anyone figured this out yet?
I have seveal team sites I would like to change the icon on. I tried to replace the file, didn't work. I tried to change the icon on the group in owa, it shows it changed there but not on the site.
JennSee my reply above for the sites....
https://yourtenantname.sharepoint.com/yoursite/_layouts/15/prjsetng.aspx
Just set the site icon property to whatever icon you want it to be.
I was able to change one sucessfully, however my other sites, even though the image it located in site assets, tells me image not found. Any pointers there?
Jenn
- You should be able to change group icons from outlook on the web, which should then sync to the teamsite.
This worked before. Now it doesn't. It's bugged. You can look up my other thread about this.Thanks Ivan
I also though it should too. Waited 24hr after I changed icon in group, when it didnt I started looking for another way.
Doesn't seem to work, you're right. However, you can just set the site icon like you typically would. This is the direct link which works just fine.
https://XXXXXX.sharepoint.com/sites/XXXXX/_layouts/15/prjsetng.aspx
It's the best we have now.
