Unknown user Permission: ViewDataAssessment - Profile migration issue

Question

I've been trying migrating some of my codes using ANT migration tool, including Admin profile.

<types>
    <members>Admin</members>       
    <name>Profile</name> 
</types>

Whenever i try to deployunpackaged from fsandbox to production, i keep getting following unknown user permission errors time to time.The latest one is Unknown user Permission: ViewDataAssessment

and before that I was getting following errors,

• Unknown user Permission:DelegatedTwoFactor
• Unknown user Permission:ModerateNetworkUsers

But i was able to compare the profiles between fsandbox and Production and fix it. How can I avoid issues like this in future. Is there any setting i can use to bypass these errors

Thanks, Lahiru

Answer 1

You will find many hits if you Google this and it is posted in the "Known Issues" Summer 14- Force.com project fails with "Unknown user permission" so add yourself there.

Manual (or scripted) editing of the profiles is the normal workaround. This is the sort of problem that some of the paid-for release management tools might automatically work-around.

Answer 2

Seems to me your sandbox is already on Summer '16, while your production still is on Spring '16. These are new permissions that have been added in the new version, and thus do not yet exist in your production environment.

According to me, best thing to do is to plan your sandbox refreshes accordingly. You are notified about this by Salesforce upfront. You can also read more about this on their blog.

Try to make sure your source and target environment will be on the same version whenever you plan to deploy.

If this is no longer possible, you can also manually remove the reference to that specific profile permission before deploying.