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Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Visual Paradigm Online

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

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

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Visual Paradigm Online, you need:

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

Scenario description

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

  • Visual Paradigm Online supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Visual Paradigm Online 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 Visual Paradigm Online.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Visual Paradigm Online, 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 Visual Paradigm Online SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Visual Paradigm Online test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Visual Paradigm Online 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 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 > Visual Paradigm Online > 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, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://online.visual-paradigm.com/w/<Workspace_ID>/saml2

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://online.visual-paradigm.com/w/<Workspace_ID>/saml2/service/

    c. In the Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://online.visual-paradigm.com/login.jsp

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Visual Paradigm Online support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  6. Your Visual Paradigm Online 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 an example for this. The default value of Unique User Identifier is user.userprincipalname but Box expects this to be mapped with the user's email address. For that you can use user.mail attribute from the list or use the appropriate attribute value based on your organization configuration.

    Screenshot shows custom attribute mapping.

  7. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

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

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration URLs.

Create a Microsoft Entra 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 test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to Visual Paradigm Online.

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

To configure single sign-on on Visual Paradigm Online side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from Microsoft Entra admin center to Visual Paradigm Online support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Visual Paradigm Online test user

In this section, you create a user called B.Simon in Visual Paradigm Online. Work with Visual Paradigm Online support team to add the users in the Visual Paradigm Online 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. This will redirect to Visual Paradigm Online Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Visual Paradigm Online tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Visual Paradigm Online Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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