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Microsoft Entra SSO integration with MetLife Legal Plans Member App

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate MetLife Legal Plans Member App with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate MetLife Legal Plans Member App with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to MetLife Legal Plans Member App.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to MetLife Legal Plans Member App with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with MetLife Legal Plans Member App, you need:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • MetLife Legal Plans Member App single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

  • MetLife Legal Plans Member App supports only IDP initiated SSO.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

To configure the integration of MetLife Legal Plans Member App into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add MetLife Legal Plans Member App from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
  3. In the Add from the gallery section, type MetLife Legal Plans Member App in the search box.
  4. Select MetLife Legal Plans Member App from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MetLife Legal Plans Member App using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in MetLife Legal Plans Member App.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MetLife Legal Plans Member App, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra ID test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra ID test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure MetLife Legal Plans Member App SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create MetLife Legal Plans Member App test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in MetLife Legal Plans Member App that is linked to the Microsoft Entra ID representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MetLife Legal Plans Member App > Single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Screenshot shows how to edit Basic SAML Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, the user does not have to perform any step as the app is already pre-integrated with Microsoft Entra.

  6. MetLife Legal Plans Member App application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

    Screenshot shows the image of attributes configuration.

    Note

    Please rename emailaddress to EmailAddress and remove namespace for this attribute manually under Additional Claim section shown in the above screenshot to work SSO connection properly on both sides as per application side requirement.

  7. In addition to above, MetLife Legal Plans Member App application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

    Name Source Attribute
    EmployeeId user.employeeid

  8. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Raw) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

  9. On the Set up MetLife Legal Plans Member App section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration URLs.

Create a Microsoft Entra ID test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Microsoft Entra admin center called B.Simon.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Display name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
    3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
    4. Select Review + create.
  5. Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra ID test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to MetLife Legal Plans Member App.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MetLife Legal Plans Member App.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
    1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
    2. If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
    3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

To configure single sign-on on MetLife Legal Plans Member App side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Raw) and appropriate copied URLs from Microsoft Entra admin center to MetLife Legal Plans Member App support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

In this section, you create a user called B.Simon in MetLife Legal Plans Member App. Work with MetLife Legal Plans Member App support team to add the users in the MetLife Legal Plans Member App platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center and you should be automatically signed in to the MetLife Legal Plans Member App for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the MetLife Legal Plans Member App tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the MetLife Legal Plans Member App for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure MetLife Legal Plans Member App you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization's sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.