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Kerry Townsend
Kerry Townsend
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Kerry Townsend

Kerry Townsend is a Salesforce specialist, working with the platform since 2005 –first as a user, then as a solo Admin. She moved over to consulting in 2010, initially at boutiques, as a global systems integrator, and more recently, returning to working for herself. She has refined her skills while delivering a broad range of Salesforce solutions using multiple clouds, predominantly Sales and Marketing Cloud, for small to enterprise-size businesses. She has 16 Salesforce certifications and has been recognized as a Salesforce MVP since 2018. She is passionate about enabling others and is a Salesforce community conference and Trailblazer community's group leader. She is also a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences across the globe, including Dreamforce.
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Email and calendar integrations

A common requirement for Sales Teams is to be able to record emails related to Opportunities against the Opportunity, Contact, and Account Records. Sales Cloud has a few different options to support this. At the time of writing, they are also phasing out a previous option for synching Outlook and Gmail: Lightning Sync. This is not available for new Sales Cloud users but is still operational for those that turned the feature on before Winter 2021.

In this section, we will look at the options available for syncing emails, events, and contact data into Sales Cloud, starting with Lightning Syn.

Lightning Sync

Lightning Sync is no longer available to new Sales Cloud customers. However, this might provide an option if it is already enabled in your Org while you consider the other alternatives. Updates will be provided to maintain the functionality, but there will be no product enhancements after Winter 2021. Users do need to select or confirm what...

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Kerry Townsend

Kerry Townsend is a Salesforce specialist, working with the platform since 2005 –first as a user, then as a solo Admin. She moved over to consulting in 2010, initially at boutiques, as a global systems integrator, and more recently, returning to working for herself. She has refined her skills while delivering a broad range of Salesforce solutions using multiple clouds, predominantly Sales and Marketing Cloud, for small to enterprise-size businesses. She has 16 Salesforce certifications and has been recognized as a Salesforce MVP since 2018. She is passionate about enabling others and is a Salesforce community conference and Trailblazer community's group leader. She is also a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences across the globe, including Dreamforce.
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