Salesforce

Changelog

The following is the change history for the Salesforce Provisioner.

Salesforce Connector 7.0.1 – April 2020

  • Fixed an issue that caused the connection check to return a success when the wrong subdomain was entered.

Salesforce Connector 7.0 – September 2019

  • Added support for provisioning to Salesforce Community Cloud, which includes customer, partner, and custom communities.

  • Added the ability to create connections to custom Salesforce domains.

  • Added support for version 46.0 of the Salesforce REST API.

  • Added configuring options to manage permission sets by merging or overwriting.

  • Added support for additional Salesforce attributes.

  • Added the ability to create multiple Salesforce connections in one PingFederate instance.

  • Added default attribute mappings for channels that use PingDirectory and Oracle Directory Server datastores.

  • Improved error handling and reporting for cases where users in the target application do not have an ID.

  • Improved error handling and reporting for cases where groups are updated or deleted but don’t exist in the target application.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented users with certain special characters from being provisioned to Salesforce.

  • Fixed an issue that caused a user to be updated in Salesforce when the user was being disabled and the Update Users option was turned off.

Salesforce Connector 6.1 – July 2017

  • Added support for disabling user without updating any user attributes.

  • Added configuration control of provisioning disabled users.

  • Added custom attribute support.

  • Removed non-mappable attributes from attribute mapping page.

Salesforce Connector 6.0 – October 2016

  • Added support for additional user attributes.

  • Added support for group provisioning.

  • Added support for adding users to groups.

  • Added configuration options for CRUD capabilities.

  • Improved exception handling and reporting.

  • Added support for Salesforce REST v37.0 API.

  • Added support for the OAuth Authentication with the OAuth Configuration Service (OCS).

  • Removed support for Delegated Authentication in favor of SAML (deprecated).

  • Removed support for outbound provisioning to partner and customer portals (deprecated).

Salesforce Connector 5.1.1 – November 2015

  • Added support for Salesforce API endpoint change (January 1, 2016).

Salesforce Connector 5.1 – August 2015

  • Added support for SSO to Veeva iRep mobile clients through delegated authentication with Salesforce.

  • Fixed quick-connection UI performance issues.

  • Added support for the ability to freeze user accounts instead of deactivating them through the provisioner.

  • Added support for overriding the provisioning target environment endpoint.

  • Enhanced support for SP-Initiated SSO through deep linking and SP-initiated SLO by adding a Salesforce Login URL and a Single Logout Landing Page field.

Salesforce Connector 5.0 – October 2014

  • Added ability to have one LDAP user mapped to two different Salesforce administrator accounts.

  • Salesforce API was updated from version 20 to version 31.

  • Added Permission Set attribute to SP Connection, which enables mapping of permission sets in Salesforce to an LDAP field.

  • Added support for proxy authentication.

Salesforce Connector 4.1 - June 2011

  • Added support for Salesforce Chatter and Chatter Free user provisioning.

Salesforce Connector 4.0.1 - November 2010

  • Corrected compatibility issue with PingFederate 6.4.

Salesforce Connector 4.0 - November 2010

  • Added quick-connection SSO template and enabled SaaS provisioning to the Salesforce Customer Portal.

  • Added quick-connection SSO template and enabled SaaS provisioning to the Salesforce Partner Portal.

  • Added quick-connection SSO template to support Salesforce CRM SAML capabilities including metadata export from Salesforce and import into PingFederate, plus optional SaaS provisioning.

Salesforce Connector 3.3 - May 2009

  • Added support for Salesforce "Connect for Microsoft Outlook" version 3.2.513.

  • Added an option to remove the email domain from the Salesforce Username for OpenToken authentication by the Authentication Web Service.

Salesforce Connector 3.2 - January 2009

  • Added a quick-connection plug-in component for automated SSO configuration and SaaS provisioning support for use with PingFederate 5.3.

  • Added support for Mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS) between Salesforce and the PingFederate Authentication Service.

  • Added an option to remove the email domain from the Salesforce User Name for authentication to a LDAP directory.

  • Added support for delegated authentication to Salesforce through Salesforce Mobile Clients.

  • Combined the former Salesforce User Guide into the Salesforce Quick Connection Guide.

Salesforce Connector 3.1 - September 2008

  • Support for URL deep linking.

  • Obfuscated LDAP password in the configuration file.

  • Enabled Single Logout from Salesforce.

  • Included Salesforce Quick Connection Guide for PingFederate 5.2.

  • Changed the product name to Salesforce Connector.

Salesforce.com Integration Kit 3.0 - May 2008

  • Support for Salesforce "Connect for Microsoft Outlook" plug-in through a new Desktop Proxy Service that allows the use of corporate credentials for access to Salesforce.

  • Uses OpenToken for the encrypted token format rather than PFTOKEN.

Salesforce.com Integration Kit 2.0 - July 2007

  • Provisioning (new user creation on the Salesforce side).

  • PingFederate v4 administrative console Salesforce configuration for optional provisioning and direct Salesforce login.

  • Salesforce Web Service user-validation changes.

  • Certification on Salesforce AppExchange.

Salesforce.com Integration Kit 1.1 - November 2006

Use of the PingFederate Standard Adapter, eliminating the Salesforce.com Adapter that was specific to this Integration Kit.

Salesforce.com Integration Kit 1.0 - June 2006

Initial release.