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Published inDec 2020
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf
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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Lovisa has been with Devoteam for over 4 years, working with multiple cloud vendors during that period. Starting out as a Project Manager, gaining certifications within G Suite and Salesforce, it was a natural step to start helping customers with their complete cloud setup, including Okta. Apart from customer work, she also has experience with management, both in resources and budget. With several Okta implementations under her belt and an Okta Professional certification in the bag, she now heads the Okta practice within Devoteam.
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HenkJan de Vries
HenkJan de Vries
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HenkJan de Vries

HenkJan has extensive experience with Okta, being an Okta partner engineer for over 5 years. With a long history of both implementing and supporting many Okta customers, he understands what long term requirements look like, but also the day to day management within organizations. Currently, he is strategically supporting customers to reach all their Okta potential. HenkJan is a certified consultant and is currently part of the exclusive SME group within Okta. Besides his business-related reach, he also enjoys helping unknown and uncontracted customers on several community boards, and by doing so, he has been named an Okta Advocate in 2019 and an Okta Community Leader in 2020.
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Setting up self-service options

Users have their personal dashboards to see and manage their applications. For applications integrated with SAML or OIDC, they would be automatically signed in when clicking on any of them. For SWA applications, where admins have set that end users will enter their own credentials, they will be prompted to do so the first time they click on an icon. After they are logged in, Okta will ask whether the login was successful. If the answer is yes, the credentials will be stored. If not, the end user will be able to try again.

The end users can re-arrange their applications by simply clicking and dragging. To find applications quickly, you can arrange applications in different tabs or simply use the search bar at the top of the page.

With the Add Applications feature for end users, they are able to add private applications, or corporate-owned applications if this is enabled. Navigate to Applications | Self Service in the admin console. In the topmost...

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Published in: Dec 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800566644

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Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Lovisa has been with Devoteam for over 4 years, working with multiple cloud vendors during that period. Starting out as a Project Manager, gaining certifications within G Suite and Salesforce, it was a natural step to start helping customers with their complete cloud setup, including Okta. Apart from customer work, she also has experience with management, both in resources and budget. With several Okta implementations under her belt and an Okta Professional certification in the bag, she now heads the Okta practice within Devoteam.
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HenkJan de Vries

HenkJan has extensive experience with Okta, being an Okta partner engineer for over 5 years. With a long history of both implementing and supporting many Okta customers, he understands what long term requirements look like, but also the day to day management within organizations. Currently, he is strategically supporting customers to reach all their Okta potential. HenkJan is a certified consultant and is currently part of the exclusive SME group within Okta. Besides his business-related reach, he also enjoys helping unknown and uncontracted customers on several community boards, and by doing so, he has been named an Okta Advocate in 2019 and an Okta Community Leader in 2020.
Read more about HenkJan de Vries