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Changes Are Coming to the Okta Developer Edition Organizations
Okta is replacing Developer Edition organizations with the Integrator Free Plan as the default developer organization type on May 22, 2025, as part of architectural changes tied to its Secure Identity Commitment. The new organization is intended for iterative integration development, identity-flow validation, and OIN preparation, not production use, and provides access to expanded testing offerings and support resources. Existing Developer Edition organizations begin deactivation on July 18, 2025, in batches, after which users lose access to their organizations and resources. Migration choices include recreating resources with automation, generating Terraform configurations with Terraformer, or using EnvSync to back up supported objects and recreate many of them. Published OIN integrations remain available, but linking them to the new account requires contacting Okta; draft or in-review submissions from Developer Edition must be approved by June 9 or will be automatically declined and require resubmission.
How to Use Okta's PowerShell Module to Manage Your Okta Org
The tutorial shows how to use Okta’s official PowerShell module to administer an Okta org, covering authentication, user operations, group management, and broader API automation. It requires a PowerShell terminal, the module installed from the PowerShell Gallery, Chocolatey, or GitHub, plus an Okta Developer Edition account for the setup described. Authentication uses an OIDC Native application with the Device Authorization grant, a client ID, the org base URL, and the okta.users.manage and okta.groups.manage scopes; Invoke-OktaEstablishAccessToken completes authorization. Examples search and retrieve users, create and update profiles, create groups, add users, and inspect memberships with PowerShell pipelines and formatting cmdlets. The demonstrated workflow connects successfully and manages users and groups, while the same techniques are presented as applicable to other Okta API endpoints.
Introducing Okta's Official PowerShell Module
Okta’s official PowerShell Module provides PowerShell-based access to Okta group, group-rule, and user operations. The post shows installation from PSGallery, configuration with an organization base URL, client ID, and OAuth 2.0 scopes, followed by browser-based token establishment. Examples create a “Sales Team” group, define a rule that assigns users with the title “Sales Representative,” activate it, and create a matching user during onboarding. A second script imports employee records from a CSV, copies each property into a user profile, uses the email as the login, and calls New-OktaUser for each row. The source presents these workflows as examples for automating employee data synchronization when a custom tool lacks OIDC or SCIM compatibility.
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