Neil McDonald's Dynamics 365 Blog

When adding users to CRM via the Add Multiple Users wizard, it’s possible to view all users in Active Directory and then add them as CRM users

In a hosted environment, this is not ideal, as admin users for each organisation will be able to see users from all other hosted customers.

With CRM 4, there was a method of restricting users to only browse users in a particular business unit (see here). Unfortunately, this tool does not work with CRM 2011.

By looking at an old CRM 4 instance, I had a hunt around to see which settings were actually changed by the config tool to see if they would still work in CRM 2011. Thankfully, I found where to add the settings and it still appears to work in CRM 2011.

Note: The rest of this post involves making changes directly to the MSCRM_CONFIG database and this is completely unsupported. Please only try this if you have your CRM databases backed up. Please try it on a test environment first. Read the rest of this entry »