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@Here I would like to get some recommendations/experience on Light Weight ETL tools for enterprise. We are looking to have ETL Tool preferably Cloud based one's which are easy to use for Administrators basically to perform data extract, transform data and load to salesforce and get data out of salesforce and also export data to AWS from salesforce etc.. on a scheduled basis.  Any recommendations/inputs would be greatly appreciated. 

You can view the active sessions in Salesforce and kill suspicious sessions if required. Navigate to Setup -> Security Controls -> Session Management. Select one or more sessions and click on Remove to end the suspicious sessions

This is the pictorial representation of how Salesforce determines record access for a user. Can be quite handy for easier understanding, visualization and quick recap

along with the exam format, cost and pre-requisites. It is useful quick reference guide

Contact Salesforce support to activate these features and/or increase limits

All Salesforce admins probably know that to activate certain features in their Salesforce org, they need to contact

customer support. However not many know that they can also use this same channel to request for increase in some of the limits and other functionalities. Check out this blog post to see a quick reference mind map of what can be requested from Salesforce support

Be My Guest Salesforce Blogger

Came across any great idea, tip, trick or hack while working on

? Why not share it with others. Not only will this help other fellow professionals and users, this will also help you in increasing your visibility in the community.

I invite you to be a guest blogger on my blog and share your knowledge with others. All you need to do is to email your article to me at

. Full credit will be given to you for your post. All your articles will be published with your name along with link to your LinkedIn profile and any one URL of your choice. The URL can be a link to your blog, Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus profile

Metadata components that needs to be manually deployed in Salesforce

When you want to deploy changes from one Salesforce org to another, you can choose any of the following tools to transport changes from one Salesforce org to another Salesforce org.

1. Change Sets

2.

Migration Tool (ANT based)

3.

IDE

4. 3rd Party AppExchange Product (e.g. Dreamfactory)

However, the point to note here is that not all configurations are available through metadata API. For example the following configuration components cannot be deployed using any of the tools mentioned above. These configuration components must be created manually in the target org.

How to find out the edition and release of a Salesforce instance?

How do you find out the edition (Group, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited etc.) and release (Winter 14, Spring 14, Summer 14 etc.) of your Salesforce instance? There are a couple of ways to determine this. Check this blog post for more details and screenshots

How to delete or deactivate apex class / trigger in Salesforce Production Org?

Unfortunately, it is not as simple as going to the Apex class and hitting the delete button or unchecking the ‘Active’ checkbox. Here are a couple of options that you can choose from