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0D51Y00006et57KSAQOkta Classic EngineUniversal DirectoryAnswered2025-03-30T09:01:55.000Z2019-09-17T12:03:45.000Z2021-02-19T15:00:38.000Z

a5rpe (a5rpe) asked a question.

September 17, 2019 at 12:03 PM
Sync Manager attribute from Okta to O365

I think this should be under Universal Directory but if it’s better moved elsewhere please advise.

 

We capture all employee’s Manager during provisioning and as an attribute in Okta. We’ve noted that the field will not sync over to O365.

 

We don’t have on-premise AD and hope to keep it that way as all endpoints are treated as BYOD.

 

I’m wondering if there’s a way to sync the Manager or Manager ID attribute from Okta over to O365 (or however we’d need to in order to use that info through Azure to develop org. charts and allow employees to see this info through the GAL.

 

Has as anyone been successful in doing this without on-premise AD?

 

thanks in advance. Inherited what i believe is a great IAM solution but haven’t had time to dig into training or more advanced settings.

  • 6 answers
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  • 8n9yw (8n9yw)

    Yes, you need to enable the API so Okta can update the user attributes.

    or use AAD connect on the AD side as both can update users. neither needs to be onsite just have cloud access.

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  • 8n9yw (8n9yw)

    Yes, you need to enable the API so Okta can update the user attributes.

    or use AAD connect on the AD side as both can update users. neither needs to be onsite just have cloud access.

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    • ajhstn (Customer)

      Hi Phil

       

      what do you mean exactly by saying "you need to enable the API" and how does this enable manager field sync?

       

      i can visualise custom code using the Okta Api to retrieve the Manager field and then updating office 365, but what are you referring to exactly.

       

      Also the question seems to all how to do this in non AD environments, but you still refer to AD in your answer, please clarify

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  • 5f7vl (5f7vl)

    hey @okta admin, Manager attribute can't be synced to O365 without onprem AD, got that confirmed by Okta support. Would definitely be interested to see how you've done that if actually implemented, but so far it's not possible to do this with Okta mastered users.

    • b71vv (b71vv)

      Hi Aliya,

      Do you know if it is still the case? We've noticed the manager attribute not being mapped to new o365 users once we went okta mastered.

       

      Cheers

  • JuanB.86576 (Customer)

    looks like is not possible, based on what I read in other posts...Okta mastered users cannot push the manager attribute down to O365

  • 8c907 (8c907)

    I’m wondering if there’s a way to sync the Manager or Manager ID attribute from Okta over to O365 (or however we’d need to in order to use that info through Azure to develop org. charts and allow employees to see this info through the GAL.

     

    I don't know about the GAL, but is it possible to bring the manager attribute in as a custom field and base your Org chart around that? Not an ideal solution but perhaps possible.

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Sync Manager attribute from Okta to O365