Let’s see how we can have our salesforce enterprise Salesforce Org for a 30-day Trial and use it as a Production environment. With the help of this Salesforce Org, we will spin up the new Sandbox environment and will use it for Change Set Deployment.
This org will be valid for 30 days and is enough for us to complete the change set deployment.
Step 1 – Click Here to sign up for free Salesforce Enterprise Org.
Step2 – Fill out the form and while entering the email provide a valid email
Step3 – You will receive a verification email in your provided and once you click on that email it will ask you to set your password and will also provide your username
Note: – If you do not find this email in your inbox then check the other folders like Junk/Spam/Updated/Social.
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Now, you have your own Enterprise Production Org for 30 days. You are ready to work with Change Set Based Deployment
If your Org Expires you can again spin up the new org using the same url and same email.
As this is a free Trial Org, some features might be missing like Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud. However, it will not impact our course.
Create your own Sandbox
Now, you have your own Production Org, to login to Production Org you need to navigate to https://login.salesforce.com/ and provide your username & password there.
Once you are inside Salesforce Org. Let’s create your own Sandbox however, you will see how to create a new sandbox in the next section as well.
In Your Salesforce Org, Navigate to Setup and from Quick Search Box Search for Sandbox
Click on Sandboxes -> then Click on New Sandbox
1. Provide the name of the Sandbox ( for example – Dev ) & optional description ( for example – this sandbox will be used to develop the new features and used by the internal developers. )
2. Select Production for Create From Picklist.
3. For Sandbox Licenses you will see multiple options, Click Next under Developer Licence
The next Screen will ask for Apex Class Name, ignore that and click on create
The next screen will take you back to the sandboxes list where you will see your sandbox is being prepared
It will take some time for your sandbox to be ready and it completely depends upon the amount of metadata you have inside your org ( Objects, Custom Settings, Metadata, Remote Site Setting, Static Resource & etc ). As this is a brand new org it will not take more time to make your sandbox ready.
Refresh your page after 15-20 minutes and you might see the below screen which will say that it is activating your Sandbox.
Once the sandbox is activated (maybe after 30 min or even more) you will see the login button, click on the login button and it will take you to the sandbox login page where it will auto-populate the username provide the password same as production and click on Log In to Sandbox
and you will be there inside sandbox org ( if it asks for the verification code please provide the code which will be sent to your email )
Congratulation!! 🎉🎉 You have just set up your first-ever sandbox org.
Common Questions
Question: How the username will be formed?
Answer: The user name will be formed with the following combination
Production Org User Name + Sandbox name.
For Example, Production UserName is salesforce+prod@gmail.com and the sandbox name is dev then sandbox the username will be salesforce+prod@gmail.com.dev
Question: How to log in to Sandbox Org?
Answer: Navigate to https://test.salesforce.com/ and provide your username and password.
Resources
- Salesforce Sandboxes: Choosing the Right Type for Your Needs
- Click Here to sign up for free Salesforce Enterprise Org
