Author: Dany Leclerc

With a wealth of experience driving some of the largest Mission Critical End Points deployments across Transportation, Retail, Healthcare and Field services, Dany has spent over a decade focusing on Security and Cloud computing in both Europe and Australia. Dany chose to join Okta, the leader in the Identity Access Management and Customer Identity, after the pandemic accelerated the drive toward digital transformation, demanding an increased focus on securing Identity.

Enforcing device assurance on unmanaged devices (BYOD)

One of the biggest challenges for organisations is being able to increase the security posture of their employee's BYOD devices while respecting their privacy and improving their user experience. Okta announced recently the new feature called Okta Device Assurance which allow organisations to increase the posture of their BYOD's users leveraging Okta Verify Application. Until … Continue reading Enforcing device assurance on unmanaged devices (BYOD) →

Zoho ManageEngine Service Desk Plus Lifecycle Management with Okta Workflows

Setup Instructions This document is designed to provide the required configuration to enable Okta Workflows to provision and deprovision users to ManageEngine / ServiceDesk as Requesters and Technicians. Step 1 – Create Okta Groups Go to your Okta tenant’s administration console, go to Directory > Groups and create the following groups: Requesters Technicians These groups … Continue reading Zoho ManageEngine Service Desk Plus Lifecycle Management with Okta Workflows →

Microsoft Office 365 Guest users’ lifecycle managment with Okta Workflows

One of the many automation use cases that Okta brings to the Microsoft ecosystem is its capability to manage the lifecycle of identities. In this Article I will guide you how to provision and deprovision Office 365 Guest accounts automatically when a user gets onboarded until their offboarding as an exemple, leveraging Okta Workflows and … Continue reading Microsoft Office 365 Guest users’ lifecycle managment with Okta Workflows →

Okta Custom Domain Configuration with Let’s Encrypt Certificates

This guide will walk through the process of changing your Okta URL to a custom domain. In this guide, I’ll be using my domain hogwartsadmin.com, which has been purchased through GoDaddy, Let’s Encrypt (TLS Certificate) and Google’s Dig for (DNS Lookup). Step 1: Decide on and enter custom domain name in your Okta Tenant Once … Continue reading Okta Custom Domain Configuration with Let’s Encrypt Certificates →

Okta Sign On Error Message Customizations

With the increase of Adaptive MFA use case and all the different combination of posture presented to evaluate the sign in into a resource, organisations require to customize their messaging to their end users to provide context and reduce the login experience friction. Keep in mind that for security reason we may not want to … Continue reading Okta Sign On Error Message Customizations →

Office 365 / Azure AD seemless Users and Password’s Migration to Okta

In today's world, more and more organizations are looking at simplifying their Identity and access management solution in order to better secure their identity but also to reduce cost while improving the user experience. One of the use case we see more and more is organizations using Okta to centralise their users coming from mutliple … Continue reading Office 365 / Azure AD seemless Users and Password’s Migration to Okta →

Okta End-to-End Passwordless and true SSO Experience into Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

As we evolve through the new "normal", most organizations are looking to extend their digital user experience to frictionless in order to increase workforce productivity while working from anywhere. This is where Identity and Access Management plays a fundamental part to it and one of the key capability to enhance user experience is "PasswordLess". At … Continue reading Okta End-to-End Passwordless and true SSO Experience into Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) →

Setup Okta as IdP with ADFS (SP)

Take the advantage of Okta Passwordless experience to access all your ADFS integrated applications. In this article we are Integrating Okta as IDP with ADFS as SP where Salesforce has been SAML integrated with ADFS. Prerequisites: Active Directory running 2008 R2 or higher.ADFS installed and configured. (ADFS doesn't need to be exposed to the internet … Continue reading Setup Okta as IdP with ADFS (SP) →

VMware Horizon Passwordless experience powered by Okta

-This Article is written for Lab demonstration purpose and some of the practice are not all recommended for production- As part of a customer requirement project, I was asked to proof/demo how Okta can help performing passworless experience in order to let their End Users to seemlessly access their Virtual apps and desktops from anywhere. … Continue reading VMware Horizon Passwordless experience powered by Okta →