Customizing the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page

The Windows 8 Start menu allows users to pin sites from Internet Explorer as tiles. SharePoint 2013 provides a simple control to manage how the tile looks and what icon to use. In this recipe, we will customize the tile settings with our customized master page.

Customizing the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page

How to do it...

Follow these steps to customize the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer.
  2. Select Open Site. Enter the full URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
  3. From the Navigation pane, select Master Pages.
  4. In the list of files in the Master Pages library, ...

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