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 (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 data stores.
  • 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 do not 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 screen

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 via delegated authentication with Salesforce
  • Fixed quick-connection UI performance issues
  • Added support for the ability to freeze user accounts instead of deactivating them via the provisioner
  • Added support for overriding the provisioning target environment endpoint
  • Enhanced support for SP-Initiated SSO via deep linking and SP-initiated SLO by adding a Salesforce Login URL & 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 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
  • dded 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 via 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