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Manage access to SharePoint lists. Column Permissions allows you to manage access to SharePoint list content at column level. Permissions can be assigned for individual users and for SharePoint groups.  Column Permissions settings are effective in forms and list views, as well as in SharePoint Alerts, RSS, Datasheets and even during exporting to Excel.

Reset your SharePoint passwords without administrator help. Virto Password Reset Web Part allows any user logged in to the SharePoint portal (using Form Based or Active Directory Authentication) to reset their password without contacting an administrator. The new temporary password will be shown online or sent to an email box according to the web part configuration.

Allow SharePoint Active Directory or FBAP users to change passwords on their own without administrator help. Virto Password Changer Web Part for SharePoint 2007 enables Active Directory (AD) users and users with general accounts (FBAP) to change their passwords when they are logged onto a SharePoint Site. This web part is helpful if there are a lot of AD accounts in your system, and users need to change their passwords from time to time due to security or other reasons. Remote AD users can also change passwords without any difficulties.

A SharePoint Web part that manages item-level permission. SharePoint Permission Workflow offers a productive way for IT administrators to manage item-level permissions among all the users and user groups by streamlining the whole process.With SharePoint Permission Workflow, item-level permissions are able to be automatically assigned to selected users and user groups for all items in a SharePoint list at one time. Meanwhile, administrators are also empowered to apply item-level permissions for the existing items within a list with only one click.

Define granular access rights for your SharePoint lists and libraries. SharePointBoost Column/View Permission allows administrators to manage access to all website content by setting field-level and view-level permissions for any list in a SharePoint site. With it, you can designate which users and groups have access rights to column contents, a particular list view, or even the ability to enter or change data in a particular list field, thereby enabling you to securely store both public and confidential corporate data within the same list.

Password Change & Expiration tool for SharePoint. SharePointBoost's Password Change & Expiration tool can help prevent password expiration by notifying users prior to password expiration. The logged in user can easily update his personal password by going through the main user menu in SharePoint decreasing the need of the system admin. With this product proactively notifying users of password expiration, True Costs of Downtime (TCD) will drastically be reduced, saving your company thousands of dollars. It also allows users to change their own password essentially reducing the workload of the system administrator.

Reduce URL length using the URL Shortener for SharePoint. Muhimbi URL Shortener for SharePoint makes it easy to share long and complex web addresses via email, verbally over the phone and social media platforms such as Twitter by reducing the number of characters from hundreds to just a handful. Muhimbi URL Shortener for SharePoint offers TinyURL like functionality for SharePoint. The functionality is integrated in the SharePoint User interface, but can be accessed via a web service as well. Muhimbi URL Shortener for SharePoint is compatible with both MOSS & WSS. Muhimbi URL Shortener for SharePoint includes a year of free upgrades and support.

Add access management capabilities to your applications. Flexess is a component-based product, which adds access management capabilities to business applications. The product provides the entire infrastructure starting from a tool that allows creating an application security model to the administrative Web application that manages the assignment of the different access privileges to users.

Extended Activities for Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007. Virto Workflow Activities Kit is a no-code set of SharePoint activities for creating custom Workflows using SharePoint Workflow Designer. Virto Workflow Activities Kit can be used as an add-on for MS SharePoint and includes extended activities for sending e-mails and SMS as well as messaging to Twitter, Jabber and Miranda. Virto Workflow Activities Kit expands the range of SharePoint activities, allowing you to create custom activity sets, and thus, more flexible customization of business processes. Virto SharePoint Workflow Kit lets you easily build your own workflows in minutes.

Allow SharePoint users to change passwords, set up SharePoint Alerts & Notifications, view and edit personal Active Directory data and collect all events into single Calendar View. Virto General SharePoint Kit includes Virto Ajax Web Part Calendar for SharePoint, Virto Alerts Customizer for SharePoint, Virto Active Directory User Service and Virto Password Change Web Part. Virto Ajax Web Part Calendar for SharePoint enables users to view all of their events from different SharePoint lists in one single calendar. It also provides users with the ability to create any new event with just a single click. Virto Alerts Customizer for SharePoint is a web part that enhances and streamlines the SharePoint Alert Management System. Virto Alerts Customizer for SharePoint lets you create your own alerts, and allows it to be sent to a specific user or a group of users. You can also make your own Rich Text Templates for different types of alerts. Virto Active Directory User Service enables users to view and edit personal Active Directory data through a SharePoint User Profile (MOSS 2007). Using this Web Part you can collect information from Active Directory for current SharePoint user. Virto Password Change Web Part allows Active Directory (AD) users and users with general SharePoint Accounts (FBAP) to change their passwords when they are logged onto SharePoint Site.