SharePoint 2013: Remove "SharePoint" Text from Top Left Corner

Introduction

Today in the world of branding everyone wants to have their own brand used everyone in Intranet sites. We many clients coming and asking us to remove the "SharePoint" text present at the top left corner in an OOB SharePoint Site. Here I provide an overview of how to do that.

Solution

1. Using SharePoint Designer 2013
   
   
   • Simply open your SharePoint Site in Designer 2013.
     
     
   • Select master page and open it in "Edit File in Advance Mode"
     
     
   • Search for "ms-core-brandingText" class
     
     
   • Here you will see "SharePoint" text; now remove the same.
     
     
   • Save the master page and deploy the solution.
     
     
   • You should be good to go.
     
     
2. Using PowerShell

Execute the following Powershell script to get rid of this SharePoint Text:

$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://mywebapplicationURL
$webApp.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = " "
$webApp.Update()

Happy SharePointing!!!