Signup for okta for your company first to get an Okta account.\\
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After you have signed up, validated your account and signed in, go to the admin panel area.\\
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Add a new app.\\
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Step1 is setting the name:\\
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Step2 is configuring the URL and entity ID:\\
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You can preview the SAML, or come back afterwards to get the Meta Data file so that you have the last two parts needed.\\
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You need ot copy the entire cert out of the XML file...all the contents from the start and end tags, but without the tags.