Sometimes it feels like life gets weirder every year. And I don’t believe this trend will stop, or even slow down.
During my recent vacation, I’ve picked up a new daily practice. I’ve started to journal at least one positive experience every day.… Read the rest
Every once in a while, Salesforce requests feedback from the community. The results of the previous poll were published on March 11.
Interestingly, Salesforce requested another survey last week. This one was specific to AI and how the community views their approach to the topic.… Read the rest
For years, when looking at the field RecordTypeId on the object Opportunity, I was convinced you could only see the Id value.
That means if I want to create a formula field on Opportunity that depends on the record type, it would look something like this:
IF(RecordTypeId = "0128W000000JwR7QAK", "DON", "ORD")
Today I learned (thanks to Gemini), you can actually use this field as a lookup.… Read the rest
Yesterday’s announcement sets the new MFA requirements to start on July 6, 2026 for sandboxes and July 20, 2026 for production.
Here’s the full article on Salesforce.
This is a shorter delay than I expected, and that may be a good thing.… Read the rest
After hastily announcing rushed and severe new MFA requirements, Salesforce has now postponed its enforcement, indefinitely.
This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise. I’m sure there are thousands of large corporations that were unprepared for this significant change. And I’m sure they beat their drums until Salesforce listened.… Read the rest
In speaking with a nonprofit client today, they asked about all the options available for Salesforce’s upcoming MFA rules.
As you may know, nonprofits are notorious for sharing user logins. This is because they often have volunteers that use the same login one-at-a-time.… Read the rest
This weekend I escaped the city and visited some close friends in the countryside.
One of the many things I love about this couple is learning about things I don’t know about. Each time I visit, I walk away with new, and mostly tech, ideas.… Read the rest
As summer begins, I’ve decided to take a more relaxed approach to these emails.
Rather than committing to 4-5 emails per week, for the coming months, they may range anywhere between 1-5 per week.
Aside from spending more time outside, or being with friends and family, I feel a shift in the Salesforce ecosystem.… Read the rest
On July 24, 2026, Salesforce will rename 16 certifications.
On February 1, 2027, Salesforce will retire 24 certifications.
This means you’ll still keep those retired certs, but you won’t be able to obtain them if you haven’t already. They will continue to be listed on your Trailblazer profile, and they are still considered verified.… Read the rest
The uncanny valley is the uneasy feeling you get when you look at something that’s not quite human. That is, it almost looks human, but something is off.
If something isn’t meant to look human, then we quickly classify it as non-human.… Read the rest
An author for one of the newsletters I read was recently accused of using AI to write content. The author asked for readers’ opinions.
Here was my response:
… Read the restAs long as the content is useful, who really cares who wrote it?
I’ve been discussing the price for user licenses with a fellow reader.
The context is that smaller nonprofit organizations are finding it harder to justify the increasing prices for Salesforce’s Nonprofit Cloud.
This may not be well known, but before an organization signs a commercial, they are in a position of significant leverage.… Read the rest
I’m still trying to grasp the benefits of Agentforce beyond using it in a call center. It seems that while there may be some edge cases, most use cases involve call deflection.
Undoubtedly, this will change over time, but at the moment (and for the foreseeable future), Agentforce is still a niche solution looking for a problem to solve.… Read the rest
Here’s a followup to yesterday’s article about Salesforce MFA Requirements June 2026.
Implementation partners will also be hit hard, as it’s typical for multiple admin, devs, and consultants to all use the same user login to work.
Some people have called for Salesforce to provide free and temporary user licenses for these situations.… Read the rest
Lots of people are chatting about Salesforce’s recent announcement regarding the new phishing-resistant MFA enforcement.
Most people talk about why Salesforce is doing it, and the negative implications.
For example, nonprofits will be hit harder than most organizations, since it’s normal for volunteers to share logins (although they usually login only one at a time).… Read the rest
You have seen an email from Salesforce that spoke about deprecating SOAP API logins in the Summer ’27 release.
This functionality allowed external systems to log in to SF using the SOAP API. Although not as popular as REST API (or other forms of authentication), SOAP is robust.… Read the rest
Being a Salesforce Consultant can be draining. Imagine working on multiple projects simultaneously and having to switch contexts multiple times a day.
I’ve discovered a life hack that allows me to keep efficiency strong throughout the entire day, and want to share it with you.… Read the rest
Note: This is my once-a-year personal campaign announcement.
Last year, my 89-year-old, super-active dad was diagnosed with stage 2 bladder cancer. Thanks to a quick response, he is now in full remission.
This year, I’m campaigning once again for the Canadian Cancer Society, and in his honor.… Read the rest
While at TND 2026, I attended various speaking sessions. One of my favorite was hosted by Pei Mun Lim. Pei is a titan in the Salesforce industry, and very well known in the UK and Europe.
Her talk was titled, “Architecting Your Future-Proof Career in the Age of AI”.… Read the rest
Yesterday and today were the True North Dreamin’ conference in Toronto, Ontario. While I didn’t ask how many attended, it felt larger and more organized compared to last year.
As the first official sponsor, we had first choice of booth location.… Read the rest
The other day I was talking to my nephew about his school options. He’s finishing high school next year and needs to decide which program to choose from in college.
His two main choices are psychology and the audio-visual program and he was leaning towards the former.… Read the rest
While in Spain, there was a moment in which I was travelling between two cities. I had rented a sports car, and loved the thrill of zooming around on perfectly paved roads in a small sedan. Windows down, music blasting, kinda thing.… Read the rest
Yesterday I flew from Madrid, Spain to Montreal, Canada. Madrid is 6 hours ahead.
To climatize to the new timezone, you’ll often hear that it takes about 1 day for each hour . That translates to approx 6 days. I’ve hacked it so that it only takes me a single day.… Read the rest
It’s no surprise that duplicate management in Salesforce is not awesome. This is especially true regarding reports.
Once your matching rules and duplicate rules are setup, you normally add the Potentially Duplicates component to the lightning page. This component flags you when it detects a potential duplicate.… Read the rest
A recent client of mine achieved a new title: the worst configured Salesforce implementation I’ve ever seen.
Talk about things NOT to do:
This is was implemented by a previous vendor.… Read the rest
Over the past few weeks, I’ve received a number of emails from salesforce with the following text.
“We are writing to inform you that we have identified … what appears to be the re-use of OAuth tokens within your organization. This activity specifically involved an anonymizing proxy.”… Read the rest
Another day, another Salesforce quirk.
While coaching a client today, I noticed something that had not caught my attention before. When building a report and choosing a report type, Salesforce is inconsistent with the data model.
Sometimes a top-down approach is used.… Read the rest
Salesforce recently added a disturbing new feature. And the news is causing quite a splash.
By default, your org currently sends your customer data to Salesforce so they can train their AI models.
You can opt-out of this feature by navigating to Setup > Einstein > Opt Out of Customer Data Access, and toggling the checkbox to Off.… Read the rest
Salesforce recently renamed AppExchange to AgentExchange.
As I’ve previously predicted, the “Salesforce” will be probbaly renamed to “Agentforce”. This could be announced at Dreamforce this year.
Renaming AppExchange is the next logical step in rebranding the entire ecosystem.
While AppExchange had a strong brand, not everything on the site is for agents.… Read the rest
The big news from last week is from Marc Benioff. He claims Salesforce is now headless.
“Headless” means the back-end logic is completely separate from the front-end UI. This effectively means you can replace the UI with something other than Salesforce’s.… Read the rest