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Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce

In this course, you’ll learn how the authentication and authorization mechanisms work, and your options for connecting external inbound and outbound integrations to your Salesforce org.

Intermediate
2h 6m
(35)

Created by Chuck Liddell and Don Robins

Last Updated Jul 08, 2022

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Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce

In this course, you’ll learn how the authentication and authorization mechanisms work, and your options for connecting external inbound and outbound integrations to your Salesforce org.

Intermediate
2h 6m
(35)

Created by Chuck Liddell and Don Robins

Last Updated Jul 08, 2022

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Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce, Chuck Liddell and Don Robins demonstrate how to choose from the many options available for securing external app and service integrations with Salesforce. Learn an overview of TLS and HTTP network mechanics, Apex callouts using Named Credentials to cleanly separate code from authentication configuration, OAuth and common Salesforce OAuth flows, and authenticating inbound calls to various Salesforce APIs using both SOAP and REST. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained deep and valuable insight into the flexible and powerful authentication mechanisms available for both inbound and outbound Salesforce integrations.

Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce
Intermediate
2h 6m
(35)
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Chuck Liddell - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce
Chuck Liddell
2 courses 4.7 author rating 62 ratings

Chuck comes from the trenches of enterprise Salesforce development. A developer and consultant on the platform for the last decade, he holds 21 Salesforce certifications and is a Salesforce MVP

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Don Robins - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Authenticating External App and Service Integrations with Salesforce
Don Robins
52 courses 4.5 author rating 1549 ratings

Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing

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