Had a weird issue today.
Created a masterpage and placed it in:
http://servername/_catalogs/masterpage/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Which works just fine for publishing sites but team sites didn't play ball.
I've read a few posts which suggested that you have to activate the publishing feature (both on the site collection level and the site level). Which didn't work for me.
Issue:
Team sites didn't pick up the Master page even after setting:
http://servername/_layouts/ChangeSiteMasterPage.aspx
Site Master Page > Specify a master page to be used by this site and all sites that inherit from it
Selecting my custom master page.
Check: Reset all subsites to inherit this site master page setting
Solution:
Set the "System Master Page".
For some reason team sites use the System Master Page. Don't ask me why. And I don't have time to investigate right now. But there's the solution.
PS. Happy New Year!
