Getting Error: Access Denied when a user opens EP

When you have a new EP install and haven't setup yet the users for accessing the site, you might come across this: Error: Access Denied. This is very easy to fix.

Using CSS image sprites on your EP web page

If you've done EP development you may have found yourself in the need to display an image from a .gif or .png file located in the system resource library that is deployed as part of the web solution. However, you may have discovered that the image file has multiple images (different resolutions).

URL parameter to view the content of your EP page

Just the same as with another recently posted topic, this is a frequent EP development helper / time saver and always have to go to my cheat sheet to recall this. Say you just added a user control on a page and, due to some issues with it, the page stops to render itself properly, but even worse, you just can't get on it to fix the issue.

Edit SharePoint page does not display the web parts

When doing Enterprise Portal development, it might happen that when you are going to say Edit on the SharePoint page, you will not see it in editing mode with all the web parts available for editing or adding new ones: the web parts "boxes" are not displayed.

Changing the password for a Claims-mode user in EP

 I stumbled across this question when planning for a Claims-mode enterprise portal site: how you would go and change the password for a claims user?

URL parameters to view EP pages in Edit mode

I always stumble across this task when doing EP development, and always have to go to a cookbook or other resources to find this. So, the answer for forcing a page to display in Edit mode when you have the ribbon hidden or anything like this, since I had to recall this hours ago.

EP with Claims-mode authentication gives Certificate errors fix

Working on installing an Enterprise Portal site that is going to use Claims-mode authentication (more exactly Forms-based authentication) and been following the tutorials that are present out there in setting this. All worked like presented, except for the fact that I was getting the 'Certificate error' when going to the site or errors like: "The root of the certificate chain is not a trusted root authority.".

Install Sharepoint Server 2013 without SP1 on Windows 2012 R2

A little bit late on getting these exact version together but you know better later than never. I just hit the prerequisites on the SP installer and expected to have all worked out auto magically. Seems this is not the case, as I found out researching 1 day on the net for a solution to the Prerequisites screen failing on "Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role" stage. Remember this is about installing SharePointServer_x64_en-us.img on Windows 2012 R2.