Microsoft Outlook 2016 16.16.8 Okta Login Screen Loop Mac

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If you use Azure MFA as your multi-factor solution, Microsoft provide a workaround for the password loop problem. Each user gets an App Password to use for any applications that do not support Modern Authentication or any applications that are not enabled for Modern Authentication. Now, not everybody likes using app passwords since they are hard to manage and will place an extra workload on your Helpdesk. Aug 01, 2017 Users would attempt to login to Outlook, the login box would come up and the password box would either be grayed out or disappear entirely. Under Settings, Accounts, Access work or school we found an Office 365 account and a domain login. Clicking on the Office 365 account and selecting Remove solved the problem for us.

Okta is an innovator and leader of the cloud identity access management space. It's the first choice of thousands of customers adopting cloud applications to enable rapid and cost-effective deployments. We're focused on solving identity and access management for our customers with a turn-key and user-centric solution.

Okta’s identity architecture not only bridges existing or legacy infrastructure into the future, it also enables customer choice beyond Microsoft technologies. This includes cloud applications, workflow orchestration, network security, application delivery, analytics, cloud application security brokers (CASB), API management, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Why customers choose Okta for Microsoft technologies

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  2. Okta supports Microsoft’s modern browser, authentication methods, and provides efficient single sign-on and device management for all your Windows 10 ecosystem. Most organizations have to support a multitude of devices both corporate issued and user owned. Okta offers a future-proof, vendor-neutral identity architecture.
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Broad Coverage

Okta integrates with a wide variety of Microsoft products

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Unique Value Adds

Okta’s integrations offer value around simplification, high availability, and security

Okta offers broad integration for most Microsoft products

Office 365

Deploy 6X Faster with Okta

Office 365 continues to be the most popular application deployed using Okta for identity. That’s because Okta shortens the deployments of Office 365 from over six months to under four weeks for tens of thousands of users. Okta also offers unique functionality for automation and user experience that leads to long term operational cost savings.

Current Challenges

Customers are told to choose either lightweight Pass-Through Authentication and AAD Connect — with no federated single sign-on or high availability — or AD FS, which requires six or more components per Active Directory domain. More complex Office 365 environments are significantly simpler to deploy with Okta.

Key benefits of Okta + Office 365
  • 100% cloud-based identity solution = no physical infrastructure required
  • Automated Office 365 license management
  • Just in time user provisioning, one-click deprovisioning

Office 365

Featured Customer:

20,500 Adobe employees are using Okta for SSO into 300 enterprise apps, including Office 365. The company decided to deploy Microsoft Office 365 to all its employees—moving email, calendaring, and Sharepoint tools to the cloud. After reviewing their options and Okta’s record in the industry, Adobe IT decided to sunset the internal single-sign-on system and deploy Office 365 with Okta authentication.

Active Directory + AD FS

Okta enables access to any app using AD credentials

Organizations using Active Directory typically manage thousands of user identities. An acquisition brings in new systems and domains that need to be consolidated and connected to company resources. Okta makes it very simple to manage complex Active Directory environments to provide access to cloud and on-premises applications.

Current Challenges

Customers using their current Active Directory (AD) as the single source of truth will need to build out a complex federation infrastructure with six or more AD FS servers for every single AD domain that the organization may have, or use Azure AD Connect Pass-through Authentication, which does not offer single sign-on and high availability. Each of these options require opening firewall ports.

Consolidating domains after a merger or acquisition can often take weeks (even months) of effort from multiple IT teams to manage these transitions. During the transition period end users don’t have access to the tools or resources they need, and the company’s security posture is at stake when it is reliant on the security of its weakest link.

Key benefits of Active Directory + Okta
  • Built-in support for multiple trusted and untrusted AD forests enable efficient domain consolidation
  • Real-time synchronization of users managed in AD via Okta AD agent
  • No firewall modifications necessary and no on prem infrastructure needed

Active Directory + AD FS

Featured Customer:

Allergan was able to integrate multiple Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP directories, to automatically provision all users to downstream cloud or on-prem applications.

“The cloud provisioning model that Okta is built on is very attractive because our business is becoming ecosystem-based, not just enterprise-based.” — Mike Towers, CISO, Allergan

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Windows 10

Okta enables easy integration to Windows 10 new features

Customers that have standardized on Windows 10, can still use Okta to manage identity. Okta supports Microsoft’s modern browser, authentication methods, and provides efficient single sign-on and device management for all your Windows 10 ecosystem. Most organizations have to support a multitude of devices both corporate issued and user owned. Okta offers a future-proof, vendor-neutral identity architecture.

Okta also enables Windows 10 desktop single sign-on using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). You can find Okta apps for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store for Business, too.

Key benefits of Windows 10 + Okta
  • Extend Windows Hello facial recognition authentication to more apps and devices
  • Automatic join for Windows 10 devices to Azure Active Directory
  • Extend System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Intune device co-management to Macs, Linux, and various other mobile devices
  • Integrate and extend Windows 10 to more applications and devices

Windows 10

Featured Customer:

Envision Healthcare protects 8,000 users with Okta Adaptive Multi-factor authentication.

“Healthcare companies looking for two-factor authentication, the ability to manage their identities well, and capabilities to federate with other hospitals—as well as a universal directory—should seriously look at Okta.” — Mark Hagan, Chief Information Officer, Envision Healthcare

Azure Active Directory

Okta enables single sign-on for hybrid deployments with Azure AD

Customers using Azure cloud applications like O365 are provisioned by default in Azure AD. For synchronizing user accounts from on-premises AD into Azure AD there are several serious trade-offs around on-premises footprint, availability and security.

Okta has an agentless custom integration with Azure Active Directory that allows Okta to do the lifecycle management of users.

Key benefits of Azure Active Directory + Okta
  • Automate provisioning, updating, and deprovisioning of user accounts into Azure AD
  • Simplify hybrid environments
  • Extend beyond Azure cloud and applications to enable customer choice

Azure Active Directory

Featured Customer:

“[Okta] is one of the things that I can put in my toolkit to say, ‘Hey, we're gonna move faster because we have this identity component nailed.” — Scott Howitt, CISO, MGM Resorts International

Microsoft On-Premises SharePoint Servers

Customers want to protect their investments in Microsoft SharePoint Server. Okta provides a broad set of functionality to address the user management, single sign-on and federation needs of the on-premises SharePoint servers.

Okta integration improves collaboration between customers and partners, or internal users from multiple divisions. Users in both on-premises and cloud directories can log in through Okta to access a single on-premises SharePoint deployment.

Key benefits of On-Premises SharePoint + Okta
  • Cloud single sign-on to on-premises SharePoint, and any on-premises web applications hosted on SharePoint
  • Enable all users – internal employees, external customers, business partners – to access SharePoint and collaborate on the same platform
  • Expose on-premises business intelligence applications to federated external users

Microsoft On-Premises SharePoint Servers

Featured Customer:

Acxiom employees no longer get locked out of applications, and can access their work from wherever they are.

“Okta has also made IT much more efficient. Identity has been virtualized into one platform and we can track it better, making the onboarding and termination processes much easier.' — Pablo Valarezo, IAM Program Manager, Acxiom

Microsoft Intune Mobile App Management

Okta enables the choice of device management solutions

A number of customers are moving to a device trust model to handle the proliferation of devices per user and the diversity of user owned and corporate owned devices. Some customers still rely on device management solutions like Intune. Okta integrates with MDM providers like Intune, MobileIron, and Airwatch.

Okta’s device trust model requires devices to meet a number of contextual conditions — such as IP address, location, user group, and enrollment in a mobile device management solution — before they can access cloud services. Okta will check if the device is managed. It will approve access for Windows devices that are joined to on-premises AD, and require Mac and iOS devices to be enrolled in Intune or another MDM solution.

Key benefits of Intune + Okta
  • Get the cloud identity and access management benefits like SSO, lifecycle management, and MFA, along with Intune’s mobile device management
  • Okta's device trust can assess a device's security posture, and use Intune app protection
  • Easy transition to a more simple and secure device trust model

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Microsoft Intune Mobile App Management

Featured Customer:

With a lean IT team, and a tight timeline to deploy a new mobile security solution, Del Monte Foods turned to Okta Mobility Management to secure mobile devices and streamline the onboarding process for new users.

Dynamics

Okta simplifies access to Dynamics

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software applications that run on the Office 365 platform.

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Okta’s agentless custom integration with Office 365 enables access to Dynamics applications with no requirements to set up and manage physical infrastructure, or change firewall settings.

Key benefits of Microsoft Dynamics + Okta
  • 100% cloud-based, integrated platform that works at large scale and low cost
  • Automated, preconfigured authentication to Microsoft Dynamics
  • No physical infrastructure or tools required

Learn more about Okta solutions

Dynamics

Featured Customer:

Post Holdings infrastructure solutions architect Larry Woods worked with the team at Okta to deploy Office 365 across nearly 4,000 users – a process that would traditionally take about eight months – within six weeks.

Cloud Application Security

Maximize the benefits of Cloud App Security with Okta

Many of our customers use cloud application security broker (CASB) solutions like Microsoft Cloud App Security to protect data on corporate-owned applications, enforce data loss prevention policies, and detect and alert on security incidents.

Combining a CASB with identity and access management delivers unprecedented insight and control into on-premises and cloud environments, and helps security teams combat complex cyber threats.

Okta’s API-driven identity platform enables two-way communication with Cloud App Security to help monitor and secure SaaS applications. Okta collects information on users, their devices, and location to manage access and monitor activity in cloud applications.

Key benefits of Cloud App Security + Okta
  • Use Cloud App Security's built-in connector to Okta to receive data on user logins
  • Extend Okta's syslog capabilities to view reports in the Cloud App Security portal
  • Use Cloud App Security's policy monitoring and response capabilities to gain insight into user access to O365 applications

Learn more about Okta solutions

Cloud Application Security

Featured Customer:

Experian delivers data services through new applications and APIs, and chose Okta as the identity layer to power it all.

“Now I have the ability to manage APIs in the same way that I manage devices, users, and applications, and how we give access to those applications.” — Mervyn Lally, EVP of Global Product Development, Experian

Microsoft Azure Information Protection

Azure Information Protection is a content classification solution that enables an administrator or end users to classify, label, and protect documents and emails. Using Okta as the identity provider provides role-based access control to Azure Information Protection and thousands of SaaS apps in the Okta Integration Network.

Since this is a cloud-based service that requires user authentication into Azure Active Directory, Okta will speed up deployment of this service through its rapid provisioning of users into Azure AD. Environments with user identities stored in LDAP and Okta Universal Directory can use Okta to provision user identities from those directories into Azure Active Directory.

Okta’s role and license management capabilities can define an administrator in the Azure AD tenant. Administrators can create templates and data classification labels in the Azure portal, enforce template policies based on the content of the document or email, and create secure mail flow policies in Office 365. Templates with Azure Information Protection policies can be shared across all users in an Okta-connected Azure Active Directory tenant.

Key benefits of Azure Information Protection + Okta
  • Start with a simple, wizard driven integration to Azure AD via your Okta portal
  • Set up policies in the Azure portal to help protect sensitive information
  • Remove access to any Microsoft Online resource using Okta's automated deprovisioning capability

Learn more about Okta solutions

Microsoft Azure Information Protection

Featured Customer:

Flex relies on Okta to provide a unified identity platform to secure the supply chain and manage employee access to applications.

“Okta plays a role in all three of my initiatives: Cyber security, business productivity, and best of breed. It fits all three, so it’s a perfect match.” — Gus Shahin, CIO, Flex

Updated: April 4, 2019

Latest issues added or updated

Server update

Without Skype for Business Server 2015 CU4 (build 9319.272 or later) or Lync Server 2013 CU8 HF1 (build 8309.973 or later), Skype for Business on Mac requires Mobility enablement on the server side. After updating to builds 9317.272 or 8309.973 or later, Mobility enablement will no longer be required.

You can download these updates at Updates for Skype for Business Server 2015 and Updates for Lync Server 2013.

You can also find more information at FAQ - Skype for Business on Mac.

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Known issues

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Outlook integration

Requirements for Skype for Business and Outlook integration on Mac:

  • Mac Outlook version 15.28 or later is required.

  • Skype for Business must be running.

  • Same user account needs to be signed into Outlook and Skype for Business.

Troubleshooting Outlook integration in case Contacts don’t show presence, online meetings fail to schedule, or there is no dial-in information in meeting invitation:

  1. Ensure the user account is the same in Outlook and Skype for Business.

  2. Restart Outlook.

  3. Reinstall Skype for Business on Mac.

  4. Perform clean uninstall of Lync 2011. See How to Perform a Clean Uninstall of Lync for Mac 2011 for more information.

  5. Ensure Skype for Business is running and signed in.

Can’t see users’ Skype for Business presence in Outlook 2016 for Mac

If you have Lync for Mac 2011 installed on the same Mac device, Lync for Mac might have changed the configuration. Recommend that you reinstall Skype for Business on Mac.

Can't search Skype directory

Skype for Business on Mac users can't search the Skype directory, although you've enabled this functionality for your organization. However, Skype for Business on Mac users can communicate with Skype users if they know the Skype user's Microsoft account. See Add a contact in Skype for Business

Side-by-side installation

Side-by-side installation of Skype for Business and Lync is not supported on Mac. We recommend that you perform a clean uninstall of Lync for Mac 2011 prior to installing Skype for Business.

Cannot sign in to Skype for Business

Some Lync profiles might be different from Skype for Business on Mac profiles and can cause a discrepancy. See How to Perform a Clean Uninstall of Lync for Mac 2011 for more information.

Mobility Policy required

With the release of Skype for Business Server 2015 CU4 and Lync Server 2013 CU8 HF1, we will support Skype for Business on Mac as a desktop application. This means that having a mobility policy assigned to Mac users will not be required. Until these server updates, Mobility enablement on the server side is required.

Meeting invitations only display a single dial-in number

Fix: Update to Outlook 2016 for Mac build 15.32 or later.

Single/tabbed window experience not available

By default, if your topology meets the following requirements, all conversations will be shown in a single/tabbed window. However, there are cases when the client can’t detect if server-side conversation history is enabled and it will not default to single window view. This can be remedied by updating settings in Preferences.

Requirements for single/tabbed window experience:

  • Skype for Business Online or Skype for Business Server 2015

  • Server-side conversation history enabled.

Troubleshooting if single window mode is not available, check the following:

  • Preferences > General > Show chats in separate pop-up windows is unchecked. (In app versions prior to 16.25, this setting is named Show conversation in separate windows.)

Adding a distribution group that has more than 100 contacts will result to 100 contacts only

Workaround: To view the full member list of distribution group, use Outlook to expand the group.

Skype for Business on Mac fails to sign-in

(Skype for Business Server Online, Exchange Server Online, Identity managed on-premises with ADFS 3.0 and WIA authentication enabled for wiasupporteduseragents-Mozilla/5.0)

Workaround:

  1. Remove “Mozilla/5.0” from the WIASupportedUserAgents parameter in AdfsProperties. Essentially, you will need to:

    1. Run Get-AdfsProperties select wiasupporteduseragents and get the output.

    2. Then remove _only_ “Mozilla/5.0” from the output.

    3. Then run Set-AdfsProperties -WIASupportedUserAgents with the output from step b.

  2. Revert back to using Lync for Mac 2011.

Note: Skype for Business on Mac gets represented by the underlying ADAL library as user agent Mozilla/5.0 (no option to set it from the app), and Windows Integrated Authentication is generally used only for Windows clients and therefore not supported by ADAL library on Mac.

Contact Management, including Delegate Management, is only supported on Skype for Business Server 2015 with UCS disabled

Users on Skype for Business Server 2015 cannot modify their contacts list in Skype for Business if a user account is enabled by the Skype for Business administrator for the Unified Contact Store (UCS) for Exchange. If the users are hosted on Lync Server 2013, Contact Management is not supported. Users can make changes to their contacts list in Outlook. Delegate Management can be done by the Lync or Skype for Business administrator using the SEFAUtil administrative tool.

Skype for Business Server 2015 with UCS disabled is the only currently supported Contact Management.

While in a peer-to-peer session between a Windows Skype for Business client and a Mac Skype for Business client, and sharing is started by the Mac Skype for Business client, the Windows Skype for Business client will not be able to see the Mac user's desktop if VBSS is disabled in the environment.

Desktop viewing is currently not supported in this Skype for Business scenario for Windows on-premises users.

Workaround:

  • Option 1: Enable VBSS in the environment.

  • Option 2: Users can join a conference call or use 'Meet Now.'

Enhanced 911 (E-911) support

Support for E-911 emergency calls made from Skype for Business on Mac has the following requirements for on-premises servers:

  • Skype for Business on Mac version 16.11 or later.

  • Skype for Business Server 2015, December 2017 update or Lync Server 2013, November 2016 update (CU8 HF1).

  • Enable911 in CsPlatformServiceSettings must be true.

  • West Safety Services customers: Emergency Gateway Version 5.4.

  • EnhancedEmergencyServicesEnabled property of the user’s location policy is enabled or

  • EnhancedEmergencyServicesEnabled property is enabled on the location policy applied to the network site of the subnet to which the user is connected (Skype for Business Server 2015, July 2018 update required).

Instant messaging (IM) notification for emergency calls not sent to a distribution list

For users of Skype for Business Server 2015, sending an IM notification of an emergency call placed from Skype for Business on Mac to a distribution list (as specified by the the notification URI in the location policy) requires the July 2018 update.

In Outlook, cannot join a meeting from a non-federated organization

Users cannot join a meeting from another organization that isn’t federated with your organization when users click the join links in Outlook.

Workaround: Join the meeting from the Meetings tab inside the app (version 16.11.149 and later).

Large PowerPoint files cannot be shared in a meeting

PowerPoint files that are larger than 30 MB can't be shared in a meeting from Skype for Business on Mac.

Workaround: Open the PowerPoint file on the computer and share the screen in the meeting.

Contact card information for the signed-in user is out of date

When contact details for the signed-in user change, the contact card in Skype for Business on Mac may not show the current information.

For Skype for Business Online users:

  • Wait for at least 24 hours from the time that the new contact information was published in Active Directory.

  • Sign out of all Skype for Business apps on all devices.

  • Sign out from or disconnect desk phones or applications provided by peripheral manufactures (such as headsets) that have a Skype for Business connection.

  • Sign in to the Skype for Business app on Mac, iOS, or Android.

  • Wait five minutes and check the contact information.

For Skype for Business Server 2015 or 2019 users: sign in from Skype for Business app on Windows. A fix will be available in a future server update that does not require the Windows app.

'Chat not available' in a meeting if no message is sent or received for 1 hour

If no messages are sent in the meeting for 1 hour, UCWA disconnects the client from the IMMCU on user inactivity. The disconnection is not visible until the Mac user attempts to send a message.

Workarounds:

- Send an instant message within 1 hour.
- Rejoin the meeting.

Features not available in this release

You can use and share themes among the Office for Mac applications that support themes, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For example, you can create or customize a theme in PowerPoint, and then apply it to a Word document or Excel sheet. That way, all of your related business documents have a similar look and feel. Using styles in microsoft word. Dec 21, 2015  I use Word paragraph styles regularly (Office 365 for Mac 2016), and have included in many paragraph style definitions the style for the following paragraph, which saves keystrokes or clicks. Beginning in one of the later updates to Office for Mac 2011, that stopped working in several of my defined paragraph styles.

If you have Skype for Business Server 2015, see the Skype for Business on Mac column in Client comparison tables for Skype for Business Server 2015.

If you have Lync Server 2013, see the Skype for Business on Mac column in Client comparison tables for Lync Server 2013.

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