How to deploy masterpage to entire site collection?

Question

we have masterpage on sp2013.

When we set masterpage to default then at what scope does it get applied?

a. site?

b. site collection?

c. web application?

How can we apply the same masterpage for entire sitecollection? Suppose I do it using powershell, then can it be inherited by sites which will be created at later point in time? (is feature stapling solution?)

For example; we create a new site, then that should also have the custom masterpgae.

Answer 1

MasterPage is always deployed at site collection scope. If you want to set your masterpage as default masterpage below are the common methods:

1. Write code in a feature receiver.
2. Through Powershell commands
3. Through UI (SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure and SharePoint Publishing feature needs to be activated to do this.)
4. Through SharePoint designer.

Now if you want to apply this masterpage to all sub sites in the site collection , make sure below things are done:

1. Feature "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" should be activated for the site collection.
2. Make sure "SharePoint Server Publishing" is activated in the sub site.You can use feature Stapling to acheive this(Or manually activate or using powershell activate feature.)

If you wish not to activate publishing feature, then write feature event receiver code which will set custom master page as default master page and activate that feature when ever sub site is created(again using stapling or powershell or manually through UI).