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Published inOct 2022
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Sharif Shaalan
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Sharif Shaalan

Sharif Shaalan was first introduced to Salesforce as an end user in 2007. His range of experience, from a sales rep to technical architect, helped him successfully lead more than 100 implementations including projects that were showcased on the main stage at Dreamforce. In 2013, Sharif was chosen as a Salesforce MVP, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Sharif is a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences and has obtained more than 10 Salesforce certifications. He is the founder and CEO of Agile Cloud Consulting and continues to be an active Salesforce community contributor
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Timothy Royer
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Timothy Royer

Timothy Royer is the VP of Delivery at Agile Cloud Consulting and a Salesforce Certified Application Architect. Timothy began his Salesforce career in 2012 as an accidental administrator and has since participated in a number of implementations in a variety of roles. Timothy has experience as a Salesforce customer, a Salesforce partner, and as a member of the Salesforce.org professional services team.
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Using different types of sandboxes

There are four types of sandboxes:

  • Developer
  • Developer Pro
  • Partial Copy
  • Full Copy

Each type of sandbox has different features and possible uses within the business. Their main differences have to do with how long an interval they have between refreshing, as well as capacity differences and different sandbox features. Let’s take a look at these types and the differences between them in the following sections.

Developer sandboxes

Developer sandboxes are the most common types of sandboxes. There is no extra fee for this sandbox and it can be refreshed daily. This sandbox has a capacity of 200 MB and includes Configuration, Apex & Metadata, and All Users from the production organization. The most common use case for this sandbox is for coding since you have to build code in a sandbox in order to push it to production. It can also be used to make configuration changes, as well as to test those changes...

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Sharif Shaalan

Sharif Shaalan was first introduced to Salesforce as an end user in 2007. His range of experience, from a sales rep to technical architect, helped him successfully lead more than 100 implementations including projects that were showcased on the main stage at Dreamforce. In 2013, Sharif was chosen as a Salesforce MVP, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Sharif is a regular speaker at Salesforce conferences and has obtained more than 10 Salesforce certifications. He is the founder and CEO of Agile Cloud Consulting and continues to be an active Salesforce community contributor
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Timothy Royer

Timothy Royer is the VP of Delivery at Agile Cloud Consulting and a Salesforce Certified Application Architect. Timothy began his Salesforce career in 2012 as an accidental administrator and has since participated in a number of implementations in a variety of roles. Timothy has experience as a Salesforce customer, a Salesforce partner, and as a member of the Salesforce.org professional services team.
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