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I was looking around the trying to figure out how to get the id of the current user when working with the CRM WebServices through JScript or Javascript and I came across this article. It didnt really give me the solution I was hoping for but it did show me how to hide a field which I didn't know how to do. And he even had a whole little post on that as well here.

What I think is a better solution for getting the userid using javascript can be found here. It's still a lot of overhead but it doesn't making an unsupported customization to CRM.

I was working on the same thing today and found that there is even a better solution then the one above in the CRM 4.0 SDK. There is a message called WhoAmI that Responds with the calling user's BusinessUnitId, OrganizationId, and UserId. The XML for the request is... <Request xsi:type="WhoAmIRequest" /> Helpful details can be found in the SDK.