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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

Password policies


The password policy for an organization is an essential component to enforce users to follow the best practices to set passwords.

The navigation path to set the password policy for the admin is Setup | Security Controls | Password Policies.

The settings that can be configured in relation to the password policy are as follows:

  • The expiry date of the password (default is 90 days). Keep this optimal so that users are enforced to change the password frequently to avoid hacking.

  • Enforcing password history. This is important to prevent users from repeating the same password every time.

  • The minimum length of the password and its complexity.

  • The number of invalid attempts that the system can allow before locking the user.

  • The effective locking period and also a checkbox to obscure the secret answer to reset the password.

The following screenshot shows the Password Policies settings page for an administrator; one can configure the previously mentioned parameters here:

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