Welcome to the Okta Community Newsletter

Hello everyone! As we move into the autumn season (my favorite!), we want to welcome you to our first newsletter for the Okta Community. The Okta Community team has been busy ensuring we provide you with a great community experience. We’re excited to inform and inspire you every month with all things community, including the latest enhancements, product insights, member spotlights, and more. Here are the highlights from September 2022.

LATEST NEWS

NOW AVAILABLE: Your Okta Customer Success Hub

A one stop destination for Okta admins to access personalized resources to get the most out of Okta. Learn more

Okta’s Certification Program 

Now you can become an Okta Certified Administrator by showcasing the tasks you perform each day on the job in a live Okta tenant. Learn more 

Game on! Earn badges in the Okta Community

Connect with like-minded peers in our Community Groups, share your knowledge by asking and answering questions, and all around participating in the Community. Learn more.



Introducing: the Okta Community Catalysts program 

We are proud to announce an exciting new addition to the Okta Community. This private, invitation-only group provides a space for our elite customers and partners to share their expertise. Meet our 2022 Community Catalysts who are leading the way by lending their knowledge and best practices to our growing online community. Check out our About Page to learn more. 

PRODUCT UPDATES

Introducing Okta Identity Governance

A new and reimagined product to help organizations to improve security and compliance posture. Get an exclusive sneak peek from Paresh Bhaya, Senior Director of Product Marketing. Read the blog.  

August 2022 Product Highlights

Catch up on the latest and greatest product updates from Okta. Watch now

OKTA IDEAS UPDATE

Thank you to our passionate and loyal community of Okta users for taking the time to submit feature requests/Ideas. Your feedback helps shape the product roadmap, ultimately making Okta products and solutions better for everyone. With that said, we have some exiting updates to share. Over the last 4 months, 524 new product ideas were submitted by customers and partners. Of these new ideas 33 are on the product roadmap and 8 have been released. Our customers play a huge role in how we develop our products, so thank you for your continued feedback.

Have a new feature request or Idea? We want to hear from you! Learn more about Okta Ideas here. 

MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS

Please join us in congratulating our community leaders who are fostering incredible community discussions and solutions to help make your experience with Okta products and solutions better. Meet our customers who recently earned the:

Visit their Community profiles to read more about their contributions.

Matthew Harshbarger

Application Developer, State of Iowa

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Jijo Joseph

Global lead for IAM practice at Digitaiken

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Riya Raju

Digitailken

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Jani Kruus

Senior Customer Identity Engineer at Insulet

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Lucas Rockwell 

One Peloton

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TOP TRENDING COMMUNITY TOPICS 

Top Questions

Issue: Any success with Agentless Desktop SSO?

Working with Workday RAAS report in Workflows

How do I add a deleted user back to Okta?

Cache List in a Workflow

Validate nonce/state tokens using OIDC authentication

Top Knowledge Base Articles

Getting Started on the Okta Community

Okta Verify does not work on my new device

Security Notice - CVE-2022-1697-FAQ

How to reset your Okta Verify token

Beginner’s Guide to SAML

Stay up-to-date with trending questions and knowledge base articles by checking out the Community Home Page and filtering by top questions, latest posts, and most recent activity. 

WHAT’S NEXT

Coming Soon: Community Scavenger Hunt

Earn points and badges by learning how to get the most out of the community to help you leverage the powerful resources and deepen your peer engagements

Are you ready for Oktane22?

Join us in San Francisco from November 8-10, and be part of history as we reveal the future of identity. Read the blog post from John Zissimos, CMO at Okta, to get a sneak peek of all the exciting things we have planned this year. Register now, and the Community Team will see you in November. 

We value your feedback and would love your thoughts on our first newsletter. So please stop in the comments and share your favorite topic area of the newsletter and what you want to hear more about.

The Okta Community Team looks forward to sharing more exciting updates with you next month!