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Spring ’17 Release Overview for Admins

The Salesforce Spring ‘17 release is packed full of awesome Lightning Experience features you won’t want to miss out on! We’re taking productivity to a whole new level with features like inline edits in List Views, Favorites, Utility Bar and Lightning Console Apps. We highlighted our favorites in the Salesforce Admin release webinar: Spring ’17 […]

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How the Salesforce Admin Marketing Team uses Quip

Tell me if this sounds familiar- “Oh, that’s a good question. I’m not sure who made that doc.” In a lot of my previous companies, most documents were created and sent out, sometimes uploaded to shared drives or wikis for others to access. They were treated like artifacts in a museum – look but don’t touch. […]

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Different Paths, One Common Career: New Admin Stories

It was an accident. I didn’t want to be a cranky old programmer. I was looking for a better way to support my family. This is how Misty Jones, Ryan Headley, and Zac Otero became Salesforce Admins. Very different paths that all led them to create amazing careers on the Salesforce platform. One thing they […]

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Security Updates in the Spring ‘17 Release

New year, new resolutions. What a great time to address some of those security concerns for the upcoming year! With that in mind, we’re introducing updates in the Spring ‘17 release like enhanced two-factor authentication (2FA) verification and faster Lightning Login to make hitting those 2017 #securitygoals a little bit easier. These are important improvements […]

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Learn Lightning: AppExchange Apps & Components

Here we are, the final Learn Lightning post for this series! In the past 10 posts, I’ve taken you along my journey learning how to do common admin tasks in Lightning Experience and comparing them to Classic. We’ve learned how to navigate setup, create apps, create & clone users, create groups, create & edit objects, […]

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Are You Ready for Lightning Experience? Let the Readiness Check Be Your Guide

We know you’re hearing a lot about Lightning Experience. You’ve probably seen some awesome demos during our keynotes. Maybe you even created some cool dashboards during the #LightningChallenge. You’re excited about the prospects of Lightning Experience. But still… you haven’t kicked off the migration process yet. “Seems like a lot of work” you might say. […]

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Migration Assistant: Your Path into the Lightning Experience

Have you checked out the Lightning Migration Assistant page in setup? As a Salesforce Admin, getting familiar with this page is a great first step to starting your journey to Lightning Experience. To help you be successful we want to give you a tour of this page, starting at the top. The different sections are […]

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Salesforce Admin: Karen Xiao

Read through this profile of #AwesomeAdmin Karen Xiao! Favorite Hack: The Power of 1 Admin Hero: SteveMo Admin Motto: “Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply” – Stephen Covey Why did you become an Admin? I just became a Salesforce Admin less than a year ago, after spending over 20 years […]

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