Folks,
We have a situation where in we have to create customized My Sites for 10, 000 users in the organization. For customization, a new master page will be created for My Sites.
Now, one option is to get new master page deployed to master page gallery of My Site site collection of all users and get it applied. This seems little scary as any new change in master page later would be a nightmare to be upgraded across all the site collections of users.
I tried to host master page in 15 hive and then try getting it applied over to My Sites. But, I was getting some kind of error on the same.
Could any one suggest?
Thanks in advance,
Sahil Verma
Hello Sahil
The big question is, how do you intend to update / modify the master page after it’s live? If this is going to regularly outside of a formal release cycle, then SharePoint designer is the way forward and yes you will need to copy the changes to all site collections. (You could use some Powershell for this).
If it’s infrequent (sounds like it is), then go for a solution package. However, you may have trouble overwriting it next time (if it’s been customized). So checkout this article : http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/36084/overwrite-custom-masterpage-on-deployment
