[SalesForce] Sandbox Login Issue

The DeveloperForce Wiki provides a good explanation on the differences in the sandbox licences. It has a table which includes information on how many sandboxes and which types are provided with your licences.

http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/An_Introduction_to_Environments

Also worth a look is the licence types as some include sandboxes for free.

http://www.sfdcstatic.com/au/assets/pdf/datasheets/DS_SalesCloud_EdCompare.pdf

To give a brief summary for your questions.

1. This depends on the type of sandbox that you create, developer sandboxes for instance are free but include very little storage space for testing. In short the answer is probably no as you do not pay extra for the licences within the sandbox per-se, but depending on the types of licences you purchase originally (enterprise & above include some sandboxes) and the type of sandbox that you purchase (full or configuration sandbox) you may pay between 15-20% of your total licence costs, from what I understand (I am not in the sales area) this is something that can typically be negotiated depending on the length of time required, the number of licences and other factors and not specifically listed in any official salesforce.com documentation.

2. Yes generally when you cut a sandbox the users are also copied to the sandbox environment with the name of the sandbox appended to the end of their username and email.

3. If you delete a sandbox, you delete a sandbox. Any data or code that is not in production will be permanently deleted. The only other thing that really happens of note is if you delete a full sandbox you have to wait 29 days before being able to cut a new one. More information on the management of sandboxes is available here.

https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=data_sandbox_manage.htm&language=en_US

Hope this answers your questions.

Take a look at this document :

https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=data_sandbox_create.htm&language=en_US

Users can log into the sandbox at https://test.salesforce.com by appending .sandbox_name to their Salesforce usernames. For example, if a username for a production organization is user1@acme.com, and the sandbox is named “test”, then the modified username to log into the sandbox is user1@acme.com.test.

> Note Salesforce automatically changes sandbox usernames, but not passwords.