Make your Salesforce Project More Successful by Inviting a BA to the Party (Or Thinking Like One)


Today I welcome my good friend, Garry Polmateer as a guest blogger at CRMFYI. Garry is not only a Salesforce community rockstar, but he's planned and executed some great Salesforce implementations,

A Little Help from My Friends


In a demonstration of community and collaboration, Mike Gerholdt and I have created a blog post / demo video of utilizing inline Visualforce to display rich text info in standard page layouts without

Chatter-vantage #1 - No Need to Rush the Stage


Salesforce has created a conference attendee experience using Chatter that blows away all other conferences. Their Dreamforce Attendee Portal allows attendees to connect with speakers before, during

I Need You; to Join The Salesforce Channel Community


If you follow me on Twitter, it's hard to miss my regular status updates like,  "21 videos were posted to The Salesforce Channel today," but what's that all about? The Salesforce Channel is a website

Calling All Heroes! You Belong at Dreamforce


Earlier this year, I wrote about being a hero to your users, and the gist of it was that through social media, you can surround yourself with fantastic people who will make you a hero to your users. I

» Winter 08

Winter 08 Upgrade Coming November 2 to NA1 and NA5

Posted on by Jeff Grosse in News, Upgrades | 3 Comments

Ice cubeThe day is coming!  I just got notified that NA1 and NA5 will be upgraded to Winter 08 on November 2.  The maintenance window will be from 8:30 PM PDT to 1:30 AM PDT on November 3. 

To see what features are coming in Winter 08, just go to the Idea Exchange and search on “Coming in Winter 08.”  You can also subscribe to an RSS feed of these changes coming in Winter 08.

This is a very significant release and I really look forward to using it.  As admin previews and release notes are available, I’ll post links to them as well. 

UPDATE:  NA2, NA3, NA4, and EU0 will be upgraded on November 9 and 10.  (Thanks for the info Neal)  You can get all the detailed times at http://trust.salesforce.com/.