User account Freezing

Freezing :-

It means temporarily suspend a user account, So He/She not able to access your Salesforce org once  they left the organization and you need more time to deactivate user account.

Explanation : -

We cant deactivate users account immediately once user left the organization. Some time we have requirement to deactivate user but that user may be selected in workflow email alert, custom hierarchy field or some where else in this case you need to perform some extra steps, may be it take  few minutes to few hours but it may possible user can access your Salesforce org even he/she left the organization. So from Winter 14 release salesforce come up with an feature called as “Freeze” users.

Freezing user accounts doesn’t make their user licenses available for use in your organization. You must deactivate user accounts to make their user licenses available.

Steps to freeze :-

To freeze user’s account follow the below instruction :-

1. Click on Name | Setup | Administration Setup |Manage Users | Users.
2. Click the name of the user whose account you want to freeze.
3. Click Freeze button beside login.

Only System Administrator or Users with “Manage Users” Permission can perform Freezing.