Winter 16 release includes several new features: - Setup audit fields can now be enabled directly without contacting support to migrate record creation/update data. - Inactive user records can now be updated during data migration without needing to activate users. - Lightning Experience updates reports and dashboards with a new rich editor and interactive features only available in Lightning. - Changeset deployment can now run specified test classes instead of all tests.

2. • SFDC Winter 16 Updates
Below are the few new features in Winter 16 release:
Setup Audit fields
Update records
owned by inactive
users
Lightning Experience
– Reports &
dashboard features
Running specified
test classes with
Changeset
deployment
Salesforce new
Security features –
Security and
Identity

3. • Setup Audit fields feature – Winter 16 release update
– Setup Audit fields
• What is audit fields feature? This feature allow us to
migrate created date, last modified date, created by & last modified
by fields data.
• Many of us know about setup audit fields in salesforce.com. In
Salesforce data migration we cannot migrate some fields data
directly like created date & Last modified by fields data. To migrate
this data we need to contact salesforce.com support to enable audit
fields.
• With the Winter 16 Salesforce release, we can directly enable this
feature without contacting Salesforce.
• To enable the user permissions, first enable the organization
preference on the User Interface page. From Setup, enter User
Interface in the Quick Find box, then select User Interface. After you
enable the organization preference, enable the user permissions in
a permission set or profile. You can set audit fields only in API-
enabled editions of Salesforce.

4. • Update records owned by inactive users
– How to Update records owned by inactive users during data
migration
• Migrating bulk data from one organization to other
organization is very difficult as migrating data owned
by inactive users is difficult. We have activate &
inactivate to migrate such type of data. This really very
difficult task to migrate huge data and time we may
have to face licensing issues to activate users.
• Finally this task is going to easier for us as Salesforce is
providing a feature in Winter 16 upgrade. Salesforce
has placed this feature behind an organization
preference called “Enable Set Audit Fields upon Record
Creation and Update Records with Inactive Owners.”

5. • Lightning Experience – Winter 16 updates
– Lightning Experience – Reports & dashboard features
• Lightning Experience features:
• – Salesforce has redesigned Reports & Dashboard homepage in Winter 16
release to provide rich user interface to users.
– New rich editor to create dashboards.
– Interactive dashboards to present & share information.
– New features on report run page to get more information from
interactive chats & filters.
• Above features are available in Lightning Experience only.
• New Names for Reporting Products and Features in winter 16 release:
• – Salesforce1 Reporting is now called Salesforce Reports and Dashboards.
– Salesforce1 Reporting API via Apex is now called Salesforce Reports and
Dashboards API via Apex.
– Salesforce1 Reporting REST API is now called Salesforce Reports and
Dashboards REST API.

6. • Running Specified Tests-Changeset deployment
– Running specified test classes with Changeset deployment
• Running specified tests option is now available with change set deployment in
Salesforce. This option is available with winter 16 release. We can choose which
tests to run when deploying or validating inbound changeset in Sandbox org
production orgs. This option is available in both Salesforce Classic & Salesforce
Lightning Experience.
• Below running test option are available when you validate/deploy an inbound
changeset:
• Default, Run Local Tests, Run All Tests & Run specified Tests.
• Default: By default no test classes will execute in a sandbox & all local tests will run
when your inbound change set contains apex classes/apex triggers.
• Run Local Tests: All local test classes will run with this option(Excludes managed
packages classes).
• Run All Tests: All test classes will execute including managed packages.
• Run Specified Tests: Only specified test classes will run with this option. We have
to provide specified tests in comma-separated list.
• This option is available with winter 16 release.

7. • Salesforce Security related
updates – winter 16
– Salesforce new Security features – Security and Identity
• – Log in look and feel – Salesforce has redesigned and improves salesforce.com login
user experience in winter 16 release. This feature is available in both Lightning
Experience & Salesforce classic.
• – Salesforce has improved safety for Unwanted login attempts. This feature is available
in all editions.
• – Now, we can track the geographic locations of the IP addresses for any user form user
detail page.
• – Transition security policies – to learn about security issues.
• – Safety is improved for Unwanted login attempts: Salesforce added measures to
prevent.
• – We can customize error messages, if error occurred during SSO using an
authentication provider.
• – Easy way to reorder applications. user interface is improved to arrange the default
sort order for salesforce.com, custom & connected apps in your salesforce.com org.