How to hide all the marketing and sales stuff in Dynamics CRM 2011 - dynamics-crm-2011

I am trying to set up dynamics for a call centre that just wants to do cas management. How do I turn off these things off so there is no evidence of them for a user of the system?

A good place to start would be to edit the SiteMap.
There is a project on codeplex which might be helpful, otherwise you can find good guides dotted around the place:
Editing the SiteMap
Editing the SiteMap 2
With this you could hide Sales & Marketing, which would be a good start. You may also want to look at amending permissions for Leads/Opportunities which can be done by editing security roles. This will help nosey/inquisitive users from creating records if they find links elsewhere.

I presume that you are referring to the subsections of the native CRM navigation structure which shows Workplace, Sales, Marketing, Service and Settings.
Visibility of these areas can be driven in two different ways. You may choose to employ both methods.
Firstly record-type visibility is governed by a user's permissions. Remove a users read access to Invoices for example and it will cease to appear as a navigable option in their UI. Similarly the sub-areas that I previously mentioned will cease to appear if a user has no access to any of the record types that it contains.
consequently it may be possible to achieve some of your aims by giving users the least possible permissions required to do their job (though you should be doing this anyway really) by granting the correct ouot-of-the-box roles or cloning and customising one of those roles. The problem is that the Sales section , for example, contains record types that your users will need to see, e.g. contacts. you won't be able to revoke access to contacts so you'll likely need technique #2 as well:
The CRM sitemap can be customized to contain whatever you want and can even contain new areas. One feature available is to alter or create rules that show/hide areas based on record permissions. I'd recommend downloading the Visual SiteMap Editor and read this part of the CRM SDK

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Can I restrict different portions of a Sharepoint page to different users?

I have a couple different Sharepoint pages (Sharepoint Word docs) all with roughly the same purpose and information, but for management reasons, some of it needs to be restricted from a certain set of users. We keep having to update each page in several different places any time a single change or update is made.
It'd be easier to be able to mark certain tables on a single page with specific permissions. Is that something Sharepoint can even do, though?
Providing you have an enterprise license for on-premise the best way to achieve this is by using targeted audience feature on the webparts.
You could check SecurityTrimmedControl, you could hide the content based on user permission.
https://rijsat.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/security-trimmed-control-in-sharepoint-2013/

Permission restriction on editing column in sharepoint

We have one list in sharepoint in which users can add their record.
There is one column which should default to a value,but should not be visible to the user.
Admins should be able to see it and edit it.
I edited the original view to hide that column. But on edinting the hidden column is still available for editing.
Created a new view with different URL for admins with that column as well.
Is the approach correct?
How can I default value of the column when user adds a record.
How can I different permissions for different view?
From this article:
Once a user has access to an item or document, it is not possible to
restrict their access at a column level. The permission the user has
to the item (view, edit, delete, create) is the permission the user
has to all columns in the item.
Microsoft product group members have said, repeatedly and in all kinds
of forums, that column-level security is not supported and, when asked
about future versions of SharePoint, have said (in effect) “over our
dead bodies.”
The issue seems to be performance. Column-level security would put
such a burden on every activity that SharePoint and (more
specifically) SQL would not be able to scale in the near-infinite
manner that Microsoft requires in order to support a feature.
The article also elaborates on approaches you can use to secure SharePoint at the column level but warns that:
Make sure that you test any approaches against your workloads and
content, to be sure that the impact on performance is understood and
acceptable.
There's a project on CodePlex - SharePoint Column & View Permission - which also might be able to help you out.

How to manage the security on the SharePoint list

How to manage the security on the list , while one group users can modify all the fields of an item and one group users can only modify some of the fields.
AFAIK there isn't a way to do this out of the box, so you have to do it in code. This discussion at Microsoft's TechNet forum talks about some free and pay tools that address this need.
Then again based on your needs you might be able to do something with web forms, i.e. create a form to edit those items that allows one group to edit all fields and another group to only edit some fields. It's cumbersome since you'd have to create a form for every list you need to restrict at the column level, plus manage permissions, but with this at least you have a functional workaround.

Restricting Views of users on Sharepoint lists

I am developing a sharepoint 2010 project.
I want to restrict users view on lists based on their identity. (e.g. the branch of organization they work in, but in fact the ristrictions can be more complicated).
What solutions do you recommend?
With out of the box features this is not possible. You can go to great lengths to remove the list's view selectors and other navigational elements that let people cruise around a the schema and metadata for a list but it is not a security mechanism.
If a user has read permissions to an item, they'll have read access to all the fields of that item.
There is an outside chance that it you disabled all RPC mechanisms, SOAP, RESTful web services, Client Object Model and the office clients that you might be able to claim this as a security mechanism. If you don't there will always be a way around your "security" scheme.
This feature can't be implemented by SharePoint by now and I think neither for the next version
You can use a third part tool to achieve it, such as BoostSolutions' Column/View Permission or LightningTools' DeliverPoint
BTW, I work for BoostSolutions and I mentioned our own product because it works for your issue. Hope it helps :)
create sharepoint groups based upon your requirement or diffrent type of user base and accordingly give them rights may be item level or on complete list
and while doing these things just go through the following posts
http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2009/02/25/sharepoint-security-best-practices/
http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2008/09/11/sharepoint-security-hard-limits-and-recommended-practices.aspx
Not 100% sure on SharePoint 2010, but definitley for SharePoint 2007, there is not a way to do this, especially if the views are corresponding to security requirements on the columns users are able to see.
One way to work around this is have the list be not accessible by users, and then have code logic allow for access to the data creating the different "views" on the data in something like a Web Part. The downsides to this is search becomes an issue (since the data is hidden) and having multiple "views" of the data (if necessary) is also another item to work through.
I know its a very old question but posting it as it might help someone.
There is an work around to do it as described here
I find it easier, if possible, to create the view and lock it with the filters on the list settings page.
For example, I have a list of employees that includes their employee IDs. I use that list on other pages to gather data in other webparts. So I filter the employee list to [ME]. So the data is available to the page needing it to filter others and they cannot see anything else.
Now, what about the person who needs to manage that page? I create a view, call it HR. That view can see everything. Then I export that webpart with that list view on it through the designer. I then delete the HR view from the employee list.
This leaves no way for anyone to switch views and see everything again. I create a webpart page for the person who manages it, and I upload that webpart and set the view of the webpart to HR. In the end, I have a page that I lock down instead of trying to lock down views or list permissions separately.
Would you be able to have two lists that are joined. One that all users have access to and another that only certain people have access to, and then join them? Then maybe the people that don't have access to the other table it doesn't pull the information? Not sure, but I'll try that out later today.

To Create an Employee directory

We are researching the various options that exist in our environment to create an Employee Directory. We have a SharePoint portal, AD and recently moved from Lotus Notes to Exchange. Our current employee search is a custom Notes DB that has since been retired.
Since moving to SharePoint an year ago, we've used a custom list using SharePoint Profiles that are updated from AD. But the simple list interface isn't very user friendly and is very slow. Sone of the requirements include type-ahead, pictures, and details of skills/certifications and other demographic information etc. We are considering building an ASP.NET or SilverLight application that can consume the information in the SharePoint list. With the introduction of Outlook and the Global Address List, we are now wondering if it might be easier to build something within Outlook.
Has anybody traveled a similar path and what would you advice us to do?
Microsoft has a huge set of offerings for Collaboration and Social Computing in Sharepoint.
See this document, pages 8 and 9 for information about features related to an employee directory, including details of skills/certifications and other demographic information.
A la carte availability of individual features (such as People Profiles and People Search) and pricing may be an issue, but you may want to look into buying something rather than building it (if you can get the pieces you want for a price you can afford).
Sharepoint can connect with Outlook to keep the lists synchronized if you want to use outlook. And there are definitely a lot of different ways to change the way the lists are presented in the Sharepoint portal to make them more user-friendly. Having those details on the portal will certainly be a boon when combined with the powerful search and indexing features in SharePoint so you can identify employees based on their profile details easily.
We use the people search for this pretty effectively. We populate data in AD, then connect profile properties to AD attributes. That's only if you have MOSS, though. If you're working with WSS, you'll have to build something more custom.
One gotcha, though, is that the People Search out of the box doesn't easily do partial searches (i.e. searching for "john" doesn't match "johnson"). That's a big downer in my mind. You can use Ramon Scott's approach of a Content Editor Webpart with a form and some Javascript to work around it, and you can also get there via the advanced search box (albeit indirectly), but it sure would be nice if it were easy to make the default search box do partial name searches.
I recently just discoverd a somewhat easy visual basic script that draws information from the active directory where you can specify which OU to draw from where it displays all user information in a simple .HTM page. it includes a search bar, recognizes patterns (address) (company telephone number) etc... If you would like i can post it for you. you only need to fill in a few sections (display name for directory, OU, OU display, and tags) and you can always change the way things look too.
This should be taken care of by using the My Site feature that's available within SharePoint. You will then be able to search SharePoint users by skills, certifications, projects, and educational qualification.
Please refer to the SharePoint Planning and Deployment material on TechNet for more info.
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