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Puneet Mehra 14Puneet Mehra 14 

Managing Profiles in Salesforce

Hello there,

I just needed some advice on Salesforce housekeeping for Profiles. After reading the articles online, I've reached these conclusions:

1. You can clone but not delete Standard Profiles
2. You can clone and delete Custom Profiles
3. Profiles are specific to user licenses ie, Profiles for a 'Salesforce' license cannot be cloned to create a new profile for 'Platform'

So, if I had to create new profiles, I have no way to "disable" old custom profiles. If anything, I'll have to create new profiles for these users and restrict Application/Object access on my legacy profiles if I plan to keep them.

If anyone has better ideas for Profile management, please let me know. Many thanks!
 
fundooMentalfundooMental
But you are not bound or forced to use the legacy profiles (standard profiles). Just clone them and use your new custom profile and never use the standard profiles.