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In environments where the publishing features aren’t used (or desired), or available (such as SharePoint Foundation installs, being able to set all webs (Sub sites) in a site collection to a common Master Page using PowerShell is very useful. Here’s how\u2026 <\/p>\n

$site = Get-SPSite http:\/\/portal.somewhere.com\/ <\/span>\n$sites = @(foreach<\/span> ($web in<\/span> $site.AllWebs) { \n$web | Select-Object -Property Url \nWrite-Debug \"Setting master pages in web ($($web.Url))...\"<\/span> \n$web.MasterUrl = \"\/_catalogs\/masterpage\/your_custom_page.master\"<\/span> \n$web.Update() \n$web.Dispose() \n}) | out<\/span>-File -filepath \"c:masterpagesmodifiedOutput.txt\"<\/span> \n$site.Dispose() \n<\/pre>\n
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The above will go through all the webs in the chosen site collection URL (in this case, http:\/\/portal.somewhere.com<\/a>, but could easily be http:\/\/portal.somewhere.com\/sites\/HR<\/a>) and set the master page to the desired master page and will produce a text file outlining which webs it found along the way. Items in bold black will need to be set to suit. <\/p>\n
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  1. Save the above after you have customized it as pushmasterpages.ps1<\/strong> (using notepad, or whatever\u2026) <\/li>\n
  2. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Powershell) <\/li>\n
  3. Launch Powershell against that file (assuming it is in the root of C:), that would be: <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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