Manage external users

Okta's Partner Admin Portal helps you securely manage access for users who exist outside your core organization. This allows you to grant specific admins the power to manage their own users, groups, and apps, without ever needing direct access to your Okta environment.

  • Generate a portal for your partner admins to manage their users, and app and group assignments. Partner admins can manage users and app assignments outside the Okta Admin Console. This ensures least-privilege access and prevents partner admins from accessing the Admin Console.
  • Delegate administration of isolated populations to your partner admin with specific permission to manage the groups and users. Partner admins can perform all lifecycle management actions for their end users through the portal while being kept out of the Okta Admin Console.
  • Customize and build your portal using APIs instead of Okta's pre-built offering.

This feature is available to customers of Secure Partner Access and Advanced Directory Management, each designed to address the unique needs of its audience. Contact Okta Support to enable this feature for your org.

Realms

Realms is the key framework for user segmentation that drives the Partner Admin Portal. Some configuration tasks direct you to the Realms documentation. However, not all configurations apply to this feature to manage your external users.

Partner Admin Portal

The partner admin portal allows your partner admins to manage users and app assignments. It displays all the portals that the partner admins have permission to manage.

Topics

Set up Partner Admin Portal portal

Create a Partner Admin Portal

Manage the Partner Admin Portal

Manage users

Manage groups

Manage apps