Okta administration: directory, apps, provisioning and sign-in policies
For Okta administrators: the Admin Console and End-User Dashboard; Universal Directory users, groups, statuses and profile sources (including the Active Directory agent); app integrations from the Okta Integration Network with SAML or OIDC, assigned to groups; provisioning with Lifecycle Management and SCIM; authenticators and enrollment policies; how the global session policy and authentication policies combine; standard and custom admin roles; the System Log; and what deactivating a leaver really does.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Okta
Skills you'll practise
- Identify Okta user statuses (Staged, Provisioned/Pending user action, Active, Suspended, Deactivated and others) and explain what suspending versus deactivating does to sessions and app assignments
- Explain profile sources and directory integrations, and choose where an attribute change must be made
- Choose between SAML and OIDC app integrations, assign apps to groups, and explain what SCIM provisioning creates, updates and deactivates
- Configure authenticator enrollment policies and explain how the global session policy and an app's authentication policy are evaluated together
- Choose a standard or custom admin role using least privilege
- Use the System Log to investigate sign-in and lifecycle events, and run an offboarding that leaves no app access behind
Course outline
- 1.Okta administration essentialsVideo · 2 min
- 2.Consoles, Universal Directory, users and profile sourcesLesson · 18 min
- 3.App integrations, assignments and provisioningLesson · 18 min
- 4.Authenticators, sign-in policies, admin roles and the System LogLesson · 19 min
- 5.Okta administration: directory, apps, provisioning and sign-in policies: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Okta docs: Admin Dashboard
- Okta docs: Universal Directory
- Okta docs: User account statuses
- Okta docs: Manage groups
- Okta docs: Manage profiles
- Okta docs: Manage profile and attribute sourcing
- Okta docs: About profile sourcing
- Okta docs: Manage your Active Directory integration
- Okta docs: Get started with Active Directory integration
- Okta docs: Active Directory integration workflow
- Okta docs: Overview of app integrations
- Okta docs: Assign app integrations
- Okta docs: Provisioning options for app integrations
- Okta docs: Understanding SCIM (developer concepts)
- Okta docs: Understanding SAML (developer concepts)
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