1. When you create an object, you’ll need to set the access permissions separately
2. Standard profiles will not have any access to custom objects created after Spring ’10’s launch
3. Existing objects will not be impacted

Here’s an excerpt from the notification:

What is the change?
In Spring ‘10, when you create a new custom object, the “Read,” “Create,” “Edit,” “Delete,” “View All,” and “Modify All” permissions for that object will be disabled by default. After the Spring ’10 release, you must specify which users should get access to custom objects.

Note: You can only change the object permissions for custom profiles, not standard profiles.  As a result, users with standard profiles (except System Administrator) will not be able to access custom objects created after the Spring ’10 release.

How will this change impact me?
If you have users assigned to standard profiles, clone these profiles and reassign your users to the newly created profiles. Then, when you create a new custom object, you will edit the user profiles to enable object permissions. Additionally, you can use enhanced profile management to edit multiple profiles at once.
Note: For custom objects created before the Spring ’10 release, access to these objects will not change.  Therefore, standard profiles will continue to have access to custom objects created prior to the Spring ’10 release.

Over the years Salesforce has made a few modifications customization options of system profiles.  As a best practice, we’d recommend creating custom profiles for all of your company’s roles, so you can control access however you choose.  These changes solidify this recommendations.  What’s your take on this change?

Winning Spring '10 Logo

The next release of Salesforce.com, Spring ‘10 is coming soon.  Salesforce previewed a few features at Dreamforce, and ideas from the community have been selected.  Here is a quick summary of what we know now.

• Chatter: social collaboration (or internal, enterprise grade twitter)
• New, refreshed UI.  Here’s a sneak peak (Thanks ZDNET)
• Updates Sales Cloud (more details to follow)
• Multiple master-detail relationships
• Rich text editing for all long text areas
• Send a test email, from an email template
• Customize the default event template (I have been waiting for this for 5 years!)
• URL rewrites for sites.  (Better for SEO, and more user friendly)

Check out the Ideas page for more ideas coming in Spring ‘10.

What’s your favorite feature? Respond in the comments.