"Out of the box" there are no "deny permission" features in SharePoint, only grant permissions. If you have a group called Sales with 1000 users, and you would like to use the SharePoint Audience feature to display a web part for everyone in Sales except for Sam, Susan and Bob, you will have to create a new group with 997 users named "Sales except for Sam, Susan and Bob" (and then maintain two groups going forward. But there is a way… Here's a trick that starts by using a Content Editor Web Part to hide another web part from everyone. By creating a group with our three problem people and using that as an Audience for this CEWP we can selectively hide another web part. Before we start, Audiences are not available in WSS 3.0 (2007) or SharePoint 2010 Foundation. For this trick you need to do four things: Create the group or audience of people to hide things from Discover the ID of the web part you want to hide (see here for 2007 and 2010 ...
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