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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with valid8Me

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate valid8Me with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate valid8Me with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to valid8Me.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to valid8Me with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • valid8Me single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
  • Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.

Scenario description

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

  • valid8Me supports SP and 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 valid8Me into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add valid8Me 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 valid8Me in the search box.
  4. Select valid8Me 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, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for valid8Me

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with valid8Me 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 at valid8Me.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with valid8Me, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure valid8Me SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create valid8Me test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in valid8Me that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > valid8Me > 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 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 Azure.

  6. If you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign on URL (Optional) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://login.valid8me.com/?idp=https://sts.windows.net/${TenantID}/

    Note

    This value is not real. Update this value with the actual Sign on URL. Contact valid8Me support team to get the value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  7. 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.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

  8. On the Set up valid8Me section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration appropriate URL.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user 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 test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to valid8Me.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > valid8Me.
  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 valid8Me SSO

  1. Log in to your valid8Me company site as an administrator.

  2. From the left side menu, expand Configuration > Single Sign On > Identity Management tab and click Create.

    Screenshot that shows the Configuration Settings.

  3. In the Microsoft Entra SAML settings section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot that shows the Identity Management page.

    a. In the Login URL textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you copied previously.

    b. In the Microsoft Entra Identifier textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value, which you copied previously.

    c. In the Logout URL textbox, paste the Logout URL value, which you copied previously.

    d. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and upload file into the Certificate (Base64) textbox.

    e. Click Create.

Create valid8Me test user

  1. In a different web browser window, log in to your valid8Me website as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Configuration > Single Sign On > Invitation tab and click Create.

  3. Perform the following steps in the Create page:

    Screenshot that shows the User Information fields.

    1. Enter a valid email domain in the Email Suffixes textbox.

      Note

      the domain name should be same as Microsoft Entra account email domain.

    2. Select one of the System Roles according to your requirement.

    3. Click Create.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to valid8Me Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to valid8Me Sign on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the valid8Me 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 valid8Me 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 valid8Me for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure valid8Me 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 Cloud App Security.