Okta is great for Microsoft technologies

Boosting productivity and security like never before – with Okta’s Secure Identity Integrations,  Microsoft products can scale effortlessly with end-to-end security set up  in seconds.

Okta’s deep capabilities for Microsoft offers: 

Deploy with Okta from Months to Minutes

Okta’s integration with Office 365, part of our Secure Identity Integrations, simplifies access management, enhances security, and increases operational efficiency. Organizations can now deploy Office 365 by a fraction of the time - reducing timelines from over six months to minutes - all while improving user experience and cutting operational costs.

Okta enables access to any app using AD credentials

Organizations using Active Directory typically manage thousands of user identities. An acquisition brings in new systems and domains that need to be consolidated and connected to company resources. Okta makes it very simple to manage complex Active Directory environments to provide access to cloud and on-premises applications.

Okta enables easy integration to Windows 10 new features

Customers that have standardized on Windows 10, can still use Okta to manage identity. Okta supports Microsoft’s modern browser, authentication methods, and provides efficient single sign-on and device management for all your Windows 10 ecosystem. Most organizations have to support a multitude of devices both corporate issued and user owned. Okta offers a future-proof, vendor-neutral identity architecture.

Okta also enables Windows 10 desktop single sign-on using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). You can find Okta apps for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store for Business, too.

• Extend Windows Hello facial recognition authentication to more apps and devices
• Automatic join for Windows 10 devices to Azure Active Directory
• Extend System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Intune device co-management to Macs, Linux, and various other mobile devices
• Integrate and extend Windows 10 to more applications and devices

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Customers using Azure cloud applications like Office 365 are automatically provisioned in Azure Active Directory. However, synchronizing user accounts from on-premises AD to Azure AD often involves significant trade-offs in infrastructure complexity, availability, and security.

Okta’s integration with Azure Active Directory, part of our Secure Identity Integrations, enables organizations to eliminate these challenges. Okta provides an agentless, standards-based integration, enabling seamless lifecycle management of users. This approach simplifies hybrid environments, enhances security, and reduces the need for on-premises infrastructure, ensuring a modern, scalable identity solution. 

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Customers want to protect their investments in Microsoft SharePoint Server. Okta provides a broad set of functionality to address the user management, single sign-on and federation needs of the on-premises SharePoint servers.

Okta integration improves collaboration between customers and partners, or internal users from multiple divisions. Users in both on-premises and cloud directories can log in through Okta to access a single on-premises SharePoint deployment.

• Cloud single sign-on to on-premises SharePoint, and any on-premises web applications hosted on SharePoint
• Enable all users – internal employees, external customers, business partners – to access SharePoint and collaborate on the same platform
• Expose on-premises business intelligence applications to federated external users

Okta enables the choice of device management solutions

A number of customers are moving to a device trust model to handle the proliferation of devices per user and the diversity of user owned and corporate owned devices. Some customers still rely on device management solutions like Intune. Okta integrates with MDM providers like Intune, MobileIron, and Airwatch.

Okta’s device trust model requires devices to meet a number of contextual conditions — such as IP address, location, user group, and enrollment in a mobile device management solution — before they can access cloud services. Okta will check if the device is managed. It will approve access for Windows devices that are joined to on-premises AD, and require Mac and iOS devices to be enrolled in Intune or another MDM solution.

Okta simplifies access to Dynamics

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software applications that run on the Office 365 platform.

Okta’s agentless custom integration with Office 365 enables access to Dynamics applications with no requirements to set up and manage physical infrastructure, or change firewall settings.

Maximize the benefits of Cloud App Security with Okta

Many of our customers use cloud application security broker (CASB) solutions like Microsoft Cloud App Security to protect data on corporate-owned applications, enforce data loss prevention policies, and detect and alert on security incidents.

Combining a CASB with identity and access management delivers unprecedented insight and control into on-premises and cloud environments, and helps security teams combat complex cyber threats.

Okta’s API-driven identity platform enables two-way communication with Cloud App Security to help monitor and secure SaaS applications. Okta collects information on users, their devices, and location to manage access and monitor activity in cloud applications.

Azure Information Protection is a content classification solution that enables an administrator or end users to classify, label, and protect documents and emails. Using Okta as the identity provider provides role-based access control to Azure Information Protection and thousands of SaaS apps in the Okta Integration Network.

Since this is a cloud-based service that requires user authentication into Azure Active Directory, Okta will speed up deployment of this service through its rapid provisioning of users into Azure AD. Environments with user identities stored in LDAP and Okta Universal Directory can use Okta to provision user identities from those directories into Azure Active Directory.

Okta’s role and license management capabilities can define an administrator in the Azure AD tenant.  Administrators can create templates and data classification labels in the Azure portal, enforce template policies based on the content of the document or email, and create secure mail flow policies in Office 365. Templates with Azure Information Protection policies can be shared across all users in an Okta-connected Azure Active Directory tenant.