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.
Overview
People affected2 accounts across 1 forum
Workarounds found3 items attempted
Community agreement2 total upvotes
What people tried
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- 1swap the profile immediately and waiting for any feedback to see what if they are missing anythingDid this help you?
- 2use Permission Sets/Permission Set Groups to grant back only the specific access they actually needDid this help you?
- 3Adding a muting permission set to a permission set group to suppress license-granted permissions.Did this help you?
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r/salesforce2 people · September 2026
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