Will creating a user's Okta account deactivate their downstream application account?

When a user's Okta account is created, it does not automatically deactivate their downstream application account. Each application integrated with Okta has its own set of user accounts and statuses, which are independently managed. The creation of an Okta account essentially allows for access management and single sign-on capabilities, but it does not impact the status of the account in the linked downstream applications.

In a typical scenario, the downstream application accounts remain active unless a specific action is taken to deactivate them, such as unassigning the user from those applications or the user choosing to deactivate their account directly within the application. Thus, creating the Okta account and affecting the downstream application account is not an automatic correlation, which is why the response indicating that it will not deactivate the account is accurate.