Okta is the industry-leading cloud alternative to ADFS. Here are the top three reasons to use Okta instead of Microsoft ADFS. Low Total Cost of Ownership IT solutions are moving to the cloud because of lower cost of ownership. Skip running on-premises infrastructure, and you’ll spend a lot less money on hardware and maintenance.
Start with Okta., and go anywhere. Okta is a secure identity cloud that links all your apps, logins and devices into a unified digital fabric. With Okta, you’re up and running on day one, with every app and program you use to work, instantly available. Whether you’re at your desktop or on the go, Okta seamlessly connects you to everything you need.
Okta is also widely used in non-profit, financial services, travel and leisure industry, technology, energy, and the government. For all these industries, Okta offers applications that can be linked with Single Sign-On.
This of course begs the query “How do I use Okta with my users?”
Use Okta to allow your users to sign in to other applications instead of requiring them to remember separate sets of credentials for each application or service. Users can simply sign in once and access your full suite of applications.
Another frequent inquiry is “How many applications does Okta have?”.
With Okta, you have the choice of more than 6,000 applications in a wide range of branches. New applications are added daily, of which they constantly monitor the status and maintain connections.
Why choose Okta for Office 365?
Office 365 is by far the most complex cloud application suite you may ever have to manage, and many Microsoft-centric organizations choose Okta specifically for Office 365.
Why use Okta for scalable authentication?
Get scalable authentication built right into your application without the development overhead, security risks, and maintenance that come from building it yourself. You can connect any application in any language or on any stack to Okta and define how you want your users to sign in.
Works Great with Microsoft and Other Technologies Microsoft customers also choose Okta for identity because of its strong partnership and broad integration with Microsoft products including Office 365, Windows 10, Azure Active Directory, Share. Point, and Intune.
What are the benefits of Okta moving to the cloud?
With Okta’s lightweight agent, you minimize your on-premises footprint as you move to the cloud. Zero servers and on-premises software to deploy, update, and manage means lower TCO.
Moreover, why choose Okta to maintain your ADFS farm?
When maintaining your own ADFS farms, you need to stay vigilant for attacks to your infrastructure, and unfailingly keeping servers, firewalls, and ADFS software all up to date to ensure no vulnerabilities can expose you. With Okta, all these worries disappear as we maintain the entire service for you.
Okta Tenant, or Okta Org – Okta Tenant is the start point for implementation. Okta Tenant represents the real-world application including users and applications, and multi-factor authentication. Users access their org and are presented with a list of administered application tiles which can be to access their applications.
What version of Windows Server does Okta support?
Although the IWA Web Agent will also work with Windows Server 2008, for best results, Okta recommends Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. If you use Windows Server 2008 R2, keep in mind the following:.
What are the server requirements for okta IWA?
Make sure that Port 80 (for http) and Port 443 (for https) are open for inbound traffic on the same server that hosts the Okta IWA Web agent. Note : Okta strongly recommends that you enable SSL.
What ports are used by Okta agent?
Figure 6: Okta Agent connections are Port 443 for AD (SSL Encrypted) and over Port 636 for LDAP. No firewall changes are needed for either the AD or LDAP Agents.