Migrate Org-Wide Defaults and Sharing Rules Between Salesforce Orgs
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Can you move Org-Wide Defaults and Sharing Rules from one Salesforce org to another? Yes — OWD is a value on the object's metadata and sharing rules are a per-object component, so both are deployable; the platform's own tooling just makes it awkward. It's one of the oldest questions on the platform — the most-viewed sharing question on Salesforce StackExchange asks exactly this — and the usual answer is a shrug. Change sets carry OWD invisibly inside the object, treat each object's sharing rules as an all-or-nothing blob, and give no warning when a rule points at a group the target doesn't have.