Community Blog Post: Okta Community Monthly Buzz- April 2025

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Okta Community Monthly Buzz- April 2025

Apr 21 2025

We’re thrilled to bring you the latest from the Okta Community, featuring product updates, our upcoming Ask Me Anything, member shout-outs, trending topics, and much more!

LATEST NEWS

May 7: Access Management Policies Ask Me Anything

Join us for our upcoming Ask Me Anything to discover how to tailor Authentication, Session, and Account Management Policies to strengthen security - without sacrificing user experience. Do you have questions about how Access Management Policies works, best practices, or specific security scenarios? Check out this blog post for an overview, post your questions, and Okta product experts will provide personalized written responses during the online event on May 7.

Introducing the Community Highlights YouTube Playlist

We launched our new Community Highlights playlist on the Okta Support YouTube Channel! This curated playlist is your go-to source for all things Okta Community, designed to keep you informed, engaged, and empowered. You can easily access and bookmark the playlist here.

Meet the Community Engineers in the Okta Community

Our community is built on the strength of peer-to-peer support, with guidance from our community support engineers to ensure you get the most out of your Okta experience. Each of our team members are not only talented engineers but also passionate about helping make your experience with Okta seamless. Get to know the people here to assist you with your Okta quests!

Okta Community April Member Shout-out

We had three outstanding members we featured in our March 2025 member shout-out series. Barry Audsley, Neil Coleman, and Greg Kalbach. were recognized for their notable impact this month, including helping fellow members by sharing insights, troubleshooting techniques, and more. Meet our winners.

PRODUCT UPDATES

Timezone conversion with OpenAI and Okta Workflows

Okta Workflows is a powerful no-code automation platform for identity-centric processes. Customers with a geographically dispersed workforce, remote workers, or partners need to perform identity operations such as user account creation and deactivation at specific times. Are you wondering how Identity-focused teams can automate identity processes with AI? Here is one practical use case for timezone conversion with OpenAI. See the use case.

Centrally Viewing Okta Logs in Heterogenous Cloud Environment

Explore a sample setup/configuration for centrally viewing/monitoring Okta logs when components are running in a heterogenous cloud environment. Users can apply the fundamentals to include/ingest more log sources and leverage the observability tool of your choice to meet your requirements and outcomes. Learn more.

March 2025: Okta Release Highlights

Get the scoop on new, generally available, and early access features. We have many new resources, including a Knowledge article, a short video, and detailed release notes. Check it out.

New Okta Workflows: March 2025

Calling all Workflows Builders! We have new educational resources, including introductory tutorials, new blogs, online meet-ups, new Knowledge articles, and more. Learn more.

Okta Support How To Videos: Update O365 App Instance to Support MS Graph

Curious about how to update the Office 365 app instance with manual federation to support Microsoft Graft? Our new support video has you covered. Watch the video..

TOP TRENDING COMMUNITY TOPICS

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