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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Visual Upgrade failed.Master page not found

If you got the below error message while running visual upgrade, please follow any one of the solution method

"Visual Upgrade failed. The default master page for this user interface could not be found at "/_catalogs/masterpage/v4.master". Add the requested master page at this path and try again.
Correlation ID: 14e48dbb-eabd-4752-b1cf-82c4a6ddafc9 "

Cause:
           This error message because of the not able to find the v4 master page.
So please any one of the mehtod

Solution 1:
1 create the subsite in the upgraded site and download the v4. master page from this site master page gallery
2. Upload this v4 master page to root site master page gallery.
3. then re do the visual upgrade
4. Now it should upgraded with out error.
if you tried this method, you have to redo this steps all the subsites in the site collection

Solution 2:
1. Remove  the Website with  sql database  to start over again from my old WSS 3.0 Databases.
2)  then Recreat a new webapp and redetach the content database
4) Run the Mount-SPContentDatabase with the "UpdateUserExperience" parameter.