Changing default text in Sharepoint

When you try to edit SharePoint pages like AccessDenied.aspx that sit in the Layouts folder in Sharepoints 12 folder hive you will notice that the text is not stored there.

They just reference resource files that sit under Inetpub under the location C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\portnumber\App_GlobalResources\wss.en-US.resx

So to change the Access Denied message to Access has been Denied or something like that you just need to change the value of the property accessDenied_pagetitle


Error: Access has been Denied