- Okta and Mimecast integration users
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
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Login to the Okta Admin Console and click on Applications > Applications. Find the SAML app that should be configured to use the Okta Email attribute.
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Click on the Sign On tab and then click on Edit. Locate the Application username setting.
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Change the Application username format setting to Email.
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Save the changes.
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Navigate to the Assignments tab and select the user/group assignment that needs to use the Okta email attribute as the login name in Mimecast.
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Click on the Update Now button under the Sign On tab for existing user/group assignments. This ensures that the changes made in Step 3 will apply to the existing user/group assignment.
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Users can now log in to the Mimecast portal using their Okta email attribute as the login name.
NOTE: After Step 6, set the Application username setting back to its original value (the value it had before changing it to Email in Step 3).
