Okta natively does not allow you to sync users to Office 365 contacts; they either exist as users in Office 365, or they don’t exist at all.
In hybrid scenarios where you are doing a staged migration to Office 365, or where you simply manage your contacts in Okta, you may want to populate the Global Address List in Office 365 with your Okta users.
I’ve written a simple solution for this, you will require:
As this was a business requirement for a customer, I coded up a small proof of concept you can schedule that will read membership of selected groups in Okta through the Okta API, then ensure that ONLY those members are in the matching role groups in Exchange Online.
Okta exposes a very useful API, with which I’ve been working for a while to ensure business fit for certain scenario’s that Okta and/or Office 365/Azure don’t fully support yet.
One of those scenario’s requires information about certain groups and their members. I’m narrowing the selection down to just pure Okta groups, but any groups (e.g. AD Synced) can be returned with below code by adjusting the filter in the retrieveAllOktaGroups function.
