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Salesforce Essentials for Administrators

You're reading from   Salesforce Essentials for Administrators Discover the administration fundamentals and challenges of Salesforce CRM

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781784398071
Length 158 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Shrivatsava Mohit Shrivatsava
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. User Management and User Profiling FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Salesforce 3. Reports and Dashboards 4. Record-level Access, Security, and Audit Features 5. Session Management, Data Loader, and Data Loading Best Practices 6. Troubleshooting Common Problems 7. An Overview of Sales and Service Cloud Index

Problem statement 1


One of your users raises a concern that, in spite of entering the right password, they are not able to access Salesforce.com. As an administrator, your challenge is to figure out the root cause.

Debugging steps

The following are the steps to debug the problem:

  1. Salesforce sometimes performs system upgrade and maintenance. Due to this, there can be instances when Salesforce won't be available. So, first ensure that the problem is not due to the maintenance window time. One can visit the Salesforce trust (https://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/) website for the current status of their instance name. The instance name can be obtained from your SFDC URL (NA11, NA0, and so on).

    The following screenshot shows how the information is shown on the trust website:

  2. If this is not the problem, then one can navigate to the user (Manage User | Users) and see the login history on the user record. The error is clearly printed, and with this, you will be able to help your users access the...

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