IP Ranges on Profiles

Use Case - An organization with some 50+ profiles is running a mission critical sfdc solution since last 5-6 years and after analysis of security implications decided to have IP based restriction on access. The organization in question is trying to make sure that mission critical application can be accessed only through office network or via VPN if outside office. The organization is global in nature and has 500+ possible IPs. Also, the deployment process involves migration of components through 4 boxes.

Possible Solution:-

1. Manually add IPs to all profiles - 50+ profiles X 500+ IPs = 25000 IPs entry. Quite cumbersome indeed, may be hours and hours. Also, very much possible that Networking team wants to do testing with only few IPs first and then add more and more.

2. Use Eclipse to add IP ranges to profiles - It will need just addition of 500 IPs on one profile and latter just copy & paste the same in other profiles.

I am going to describe below how we can make our life as developer easier:-

1. Create a project in eclipse and select specific profiles which needs IP ranges:-

2. Project will look something like this is eclipse:-

3. Open the profile on which you want to add IP ranges:-

4. Wrap each IP range under <loginIpRanges></loginIpRanges>. Inside <loginIpRanges></loginIpRanges>, keep in mind that <endAddress></endAddress> will come first, and the only <startAddress></startAddress> will come. something like:-

</loginIpRanges>

5. After having all IP Ranges, paste it in profile inside eclipse and save (or save to server):-

6. For other profiles, you already have all your possible IP Ranges wrapped inside <loginIpRanges></loginIpRanges> from above profile, copy and paste in other profiles and save to server.

Hopefully, it will make your life easier.

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