Overview
Salesforce has officially announced that permissions on profiles have an end-of-life date. Retirement is due in the Spring ‘26 release. Netwrix Platform governance can help you plan and solve for this major transition.
Description
Salesforce plans to retire permissions on profiles in the Spring '26 release, moving those permissions to permission sets and permission set groups. While profiles will still be used for certain settings like login hours and default record types, they will no longer be the primary method for granting user access.
Shift in user management:
Admins will need to transition their user management practices to focus on permission sets.
Link to article by Salesforce Ben for more details.
Solution
Plan the transition of your permissions from Profiles to Permission Sets ahead of time leveraging Netwrix Platform Governance tools included in our Enterprise Compliance license such as:
- Permission Comparison tool
- Access review assistant
- Access Reports
Tools in details
1**. Permission comparison tool**
this tool enables you to compare the System permission and the Object permission of a Profile VS a Permission set . You can also compare 2 profiles or2 permission sets to review the system or object permissions they share.
See in the example below how you can compare:
Marketing User Profile to the Marketing Permission Set
You can compare the system permissions or the object permissions the Profile and the Permission set have.
Here we can see how the object permissions are compared object by object and with their CRUD access (Create, Read, Edit, Delete, View all and Modify All)
Both of these helping you and the rest of the admin team to review, compare and make a clear decision on what to transfer from Profiles to Permission sets.
You can even download this report into an excel using the “Export Data” button.
2. Access review Assistant tool
With this tool you can see the list of system permissions a Profile or a Permission set has and export them to excel to keep the list of permissions and help you make the Permission Set that has the same System permissions as the Profile you wish to re-create as a Permission set.
3. Access reports
We have 5+ Access reports out of the box and during implementation tailored reports can be co-created to help get insights on your Profiles and Permission Set access.
Permissions by Object Report
Users to Profile and Permission Set Report
Connect with the team to know more on how Netwrix Platform Governance can help you prepare for this very important transition in 2026!