Hide Setting button in CRM 2013

Hi,
I have a requirement where the user should not be able to change his time zone.
Is there any way where i can hide the button(snapshot below) from users
using security role or remove it completely.
If its possible, which time zone it defaults to?
Any help on this is much appreciated.
Kruthi Hegde

Hi,
You can reduce the rights for all the users to have read on "User Settings" entity under Business Management tab in security role. but do not give them write and create rights. It is not a good idea to hide the button as
users should always be able to see these settings. Users take the organisation timezone which is set up at the time of setting up the organisation.
Hope this helps.
Minal Dahiya
blog : http://minaldahiya.blogspot.com.au/
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LogicalName: "email"
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activityPartyFrom.ParticipationTypeMask = { Value: 2 }; // 2 means ToRecipients
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var activityPartyTo = new Object();
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activityPartyTo.PartyId = {
Id: ownerID, //"79EBDD26-FDBE-E311-8986-D89D6765B238", // id of entity you want to associate this activity with.
LogicalName: "systemuser"
// Set the "activity" of the ActivityParty
activityPartyTo.ActivityId = {
Id: result.ActivityId,
LogicalName: "email"
// Now set the participation type that describes the role of the party on the activity).
activityPartyTo.ParticipationTypeMask = { Value: 1 }; // 1 means Sender
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SDK.JScriptRESTDataOperations.Create(activityPartyTo, "ActivityParty", ActivityPartyToCallBack, function (error) { alert(error.message); });
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function ActivityPartyFromCallBack(result) {
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function ActivityPartyToCallBack(result) {
GetReportId('Quotation');
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function CreateEmailAttachment() {
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var params = getReportingSession();
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activitymimeattachment.ObjectId = Object();
activitymimeattachment.ObjectId.LogicalName = "email";
activitymimeattachment.ObjectId.Id = email.ActivityId;
activitymimeattachment.ObjectTypeCode = "email",
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activitymimeattachment.FileName = "Report.pdf";
activitymimeattachment.MimeType = "application/pdf";
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var width = "800px";
var height = "600px";
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var columns = "ReportId";
var filter = "Name eq '" + reportName + "'";
retrieveMultiple(oDataSetName, columns, filter, onSuccess);
function retrieveMultiple(odataSetName, select, filter, successCallback) {
var serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl();
var ODATA_ENDPOINT = "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc";
var odataUri = serverUrl + ODATA_ENDPOINT + "/" + odataSetName + "?";
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odataUri += "$select=" + select + "&";
if (filter) {
odataUri += "$filter=" + filter;
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
datatype: "json",
url: odataUri,
beforeSend: function (XMLHttpRequest) {
XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
success: function (data) {
if (successCallback) {
if (data && data.d && data.d.results) {
successCallback(data.d.results);
else if (data && data.d) {
successCallback(data.d);
else {
successCallback(data);
error: function (XmlHttpRequest, errorThrown) {
if (XmlHttpRequest && XmlHttpRequest.responseText) {
alert("Error while retrieval ; Error – " + XmlHttpRequest.responseText);
function onSuccess(data) {
reportId = data[0].ReportId.replace('{', ").replace('}', ");
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var pth = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl() + "/CRMReports/rsviewer/reportviewer.aspx";
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var Id = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId();
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quotationGUID = quotationGUID.replace('}', "");
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retrieveEntityReq.open("POST", pth, false);
retrieveEntityReq.setRequestHeader("Accept", "*/*");
retrieveEntityReq.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
rptPathString = "id=%7B" + reportID + "%7D&uniquename=" + Xrm.Page.context.getOrgUniqueName() + "&iscustomreport=true&reportnameonsrs=&reportName=" +
reportName + "&isScheduledReport=false&p:CRMAF_Filteredquote=" + strParameterXML;
//remove the part starting from &p:salesorderid if your report has no parameters
retrieveEntityReq.send(rptPathString);
var x = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.indexOf("ReportSession=");
var ret = new Array();
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x = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.indexOf("ControlID=");
ret[1] = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.substr(x + 10, retrieveEntityReq.responseText.indexOf("&", x) - x - 10); //the control id
return ret;
var bdy = new Array();
var bdyLen = 0;
function concat2Bdy(x) {
bdy[bdyLen] = x;
bdyLen++;
function encodePdf(params) {
bdy = new Array();
bdyLen = 0;
var retrieveEntityReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
var pth = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl() + "/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?ReportSession=" + params[0] +
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"&OpType=Export&FileName=Public&ContentDisposition=OnlyHtmlInline&Format=PDF";
retrieveEntityReq.open("GET", pth, false);
retrieveEntityReq.setRequestHeader("Accept", "*/*");
retrieveEntityReq.send();
BinaryToArray(retrieveEntityReq.responseBody);
return encode64(bdy);
var StringMaker = function () {
this.parts = [];
this.length = 0;
this.append = function (s) {
this.parts.push(s);
this.length += s.length;
this.prepend = function (s) {
this.parts.unshift(s);
this.length += s.length;
this.toString = function () {
return this.parts.join('');
var keyStr = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=";
function encode64(input) {
var output = new StringMaker();
var chr1, chr2, chr3;
var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
var i = 0;
while (i < input.length) {
chr1 = input[i++];
chr2 = input[i++];
chr3 = input[i++];
enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
enc4 = chr3 & 63;
if (isNaN(chr2)) {
enc3 = enc4 = 64;
} else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
enc4 = 64;
output.append(keyStr.charAt(enc1) + keyStr.charAt(enc2) + keyStr.charAt(enc3) + keyStr.charAt(enc4));
return output.toString();
</script>
<script type="text/vbscript">
Function BinaryToArray(Binary)
Dim i
ReDim byteArray(LenB(Binary))
For i = 1 To LenB(Binary)
byteArray(i-1) = AscB(MidB(Binary, i, 1))
concat2Bdy(AscB(MidB(Binary, i, 1)))
Next
BinaryToArray = byteArray
End Function
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="CreateEmail();" value="Attach Report" />
</body>
</html>
Thank you,
Mittal.

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Hello,
Try to use am.parentsystemuserid instead of just parentsystemuserid.
Dynamics CRM MVP/ Technical Evangelist at
SlickData LLC
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I will try to find a better forum in the list and move it
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Ok we have recently setup an On-premise installation of Dynamics CRM 2013 and running the client on Outlook 2013 with Exchange 2010.
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When we try to connect the outlook client we just keep getting prompted for credentials and it never connects.
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I was assuming somewhere along the lines it is getting hung up with the claims process for ADFS on authentication.
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