Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Alohi

In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Alohi with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Alohi with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Alohi, you need:

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

Scenario description

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

• Alohi supports both SP and IDP initiated SSO.
• Alohi supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Add Alohi from the gallery

To configure the integration of Alohi into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Alohi 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 Alohi in the search box.
4. Select Alohi 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 for Alohi

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Alohi 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 Alohi.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Alohi, 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 Alohi SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Alohi test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Alohi 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 > Alohi > 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.

   

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

6. Perform the following step, if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

   In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://app.fax.plus/login

7. Alohi 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.

   

8. In addition to above, Alohi 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
   firstname	user.givenname
   lastname	user.surname

9. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

10. On the Set up Alohi section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    

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 Alohi.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Alohi.
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.

Configure Alohi SSO

To configure single sign-on on Alohi side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from Microsoft Entra admin center to Alohi support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Alohi test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Alohi. Alohi supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Alohi, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

• Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center. This will redirect to Alohi Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

• Go to Alohi Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

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

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Alohi tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign-on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Alohi for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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