How to fix users incorrectly given admin privileges
Standard management tools make it difficult to scale back excessive permissions or restrict access using Permission Set Licenses once elevated roles have been assigned. This creates security vulnerabilities and leaves administrators unable to properly control user access levels.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1swap the profile immediately and waiting for any feedback to see what if they are missing anything
- 2use Permission Sets/Permission Set Groups to grant back only the specific access they actually need
- 3Adding a muting permission set to a permission set group to suppress license-granted permissions.
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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