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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with ScaleX Enterprise

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to ScaleX Enterprise.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to ScaleX Enterprise 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.
  • ScaleX Enterprise single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • ScaleX Enterprise supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with ScaleX Enterprise 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 ScaleX Enterprise.

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

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://platform.rescale.com/saml2/<company id>/

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://platform.rescale.com/saml2/<company id>/acs/

  6. Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://platform.rescale.com/saml2/<company id>/sso/

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign-on URL. Contact ScaleX Enterprise Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  7. Your ScaleX Enterprise 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, where as emailaddress is mapped with user.mail. ScaleX Enterprise application expects emailaddress to be mapped with user.userprincipalname, so you need to edit the attribute mapping by clicking on Edit icon and change the attribute mapping.

    image

  8. 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.

    The Certificate download link

  9. On the Set up ScaleX Enterprise section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

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 ScaleX Enterprise.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > ScaleX Enterprise.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  6. If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure ScaleX Enterprise SSO

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your ScaleX Enterprise company site as an administrator

  2. Click the menu in the upper right and select Contoso Administration.

    Note

    Contoso is just an example. This should be your actual Company Name.

    Screenshot that shows an example company name selected from the menu in the upper-right.

  3. Select Integrations from the top menu and select single sign-on.

    Screenshot that shows "Integrations" selected, and "Single Sign-On" selected from the drop-down menu.

  4. Complete the form as follows:

    Configure single sign-on

    a. Select Create any user who can authenticate with SSO.

    b. Service Provider saml: Paste the value urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent.

    c. Name of Identity Provider email field in ACS response: Paste the value http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress.

    d. Identity Provider EntityDescriptor Entity ID: Paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value copied.

    e. Identity Provider SingleSignOnService URL: Paste the Login URL.

    f. Identity Provider public X509 certificate: Open the X509 certificate downloaded from the Azure in notepad and paste the contents in this box. Ensure there are no line breaks in the middle of the certificate contents.

    g. Check the following checkboxes: Enabled, Encrypt NameID and Sign AuthnRequests.

    h. Click Update SSO Settings to save the settings.

Create ScaleX Enterprise test user

To enable Microsoft Entra users to sign in to ScaleX Enterprise, they must be provisioned in to ScaleX Enterprise. In the case of ScaleX Enterprise, provisioning is an automatic task and no manual steps are required. Any user who can successfully authenticate with SSO credentials will be automatically provisioned on the ScaleX side.

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 ScaleX Enterprise Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to ScaleX Enterprise 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 ScaleX Enterprise 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 ScaleX Enterprise 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 ScaleX Enterprise for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure ScaleX Enterprise 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.