I want to change the default favicon on my SharePoint site. I didn't want to change the masterpage, so I just replaced the favicon.ico file with the one I created (.ico) here: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\IMAGES. It still shows the default favicon even after I did iisreset. I would appreciate any suggestions / help. Thank you!
I made it work by uploading the generated favicon to [site]/SiteAssets/Forms/AllItems.aspx and then changing the following line in the master page: < SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat="server" IconUrl="[site]/SiteAssets/[your_favicon_name].ico" />.