Troubleshooting Master Pages

When a user accesses a SharePoint 2010 site in the browser, where there’s a problem with the site’s master page, an error dialog and a Correlation ID number display (see Figure 17.6). The Correlation ID number is logged to a log file in the LOGS directory on the SharePoint Web front-end server at the following location:

%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS.

Figure 17.6 Default error dialog seen when troubleshooting errors in master pages in SharePoint 2010 sites.

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Each Correlation ID includes details on the error, or event, to help you troubleshoot related issues. You ...

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