Test your Salesforce Sites and Communities in a sandbox using custom domains (Pilot). Customers with a My Domain can accelerate domain requests with Salesforce Edge. Remove instance names from My Domain URLs through critical updates or sandbox refreshes.
- Use Custom Domains for Sandboxes (Pilot)
Develop and test your Salesforce Sites and communities within your sandboxes using custom domains. This feature allows you to test new custom domains in a sandbox before deploying them to Salesforce production. - Route My Domains Through Salesforce Edge (Previously Released Critical Update)
We’re accelerating domain requests for My Domains. With this update, you keep the same My Domain address, but requests go through Salesforce Edge. Salesforce Edge uses machine-learning technology to improve connectivity and performance. You can acknowledge this update to let Salesforce move your org’s My Domain to the new service before the July 2020 auto-activation date. This critical update was first made available in Winter ’20. - Stabilize the Hostname for My Domain URLs in Sandboxes (Previously Released Critical Update)
We’re removing instance names from MyDomain URLs for sandboxes. The instance name identifies where your Salesforce sandbox org is hosted. Removing the instance name makes the URL cleaner and easier for users to remember. For example, MyDomain–SandboxName.my.salesforce.com replaces MyDomain–SandboxName.cs5.my.salesforce.com. This critical update was first made available in Summer ’18. - Stabilize URLs for Visualforce, Experience Builder, Site.com Studio, and Content Files (Previously Released Critical Update)
We’re removing the instance names from Visualforce, Experience Builder, Site.com Studio, and content file URLs. An instance name identifies where your Salesforce org is hosted. Instanceless domains are cleaner and easier for users to remember. This critical update applies to orgs that have a deployed My Domain. After this update, a URL that includes the instance name, such as a bookmark, automatically redirects to the new hostname. This critical update was first made available in Spring ’18. - Get Stabilized My Domain URLs in New and Refreshed Sandboxes
As part of our effort to stabilize domains by removing instance names from their URLs, the My Domain URL format is changing for sandboxes. When you create or refresh a sandbox with a deployed My Domain, the sandbox name within the hostname becomes lowercase. Also, the “Stabilize the Hostname for My Domain URLs in Sandboxes” and “Remove Instance Names From URLs for Visualforce, Experience Builder, Site.com Studio, and Content Files” critical updates are automatically activated. These critical updates remove the instance name from the sandbox URLs.