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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with InVision

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

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

Scenario description

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with InVision 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 InVision.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with InVision, 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 InVision SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create InVision test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in InVision 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 > InVision > 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, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.invisionapp.com

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.invisionapp.com//sso/auth

  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://<SUBDOMAIN>.invisionapp.com

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign-on URL. Contact InVision Client support team to get these values. 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.

    The Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up InVision 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 InVision.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > InVision.

  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 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.

  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure InVision SSO

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

  2. Click on Team and select Settings.

    Screenshot shows the Team tab with Settings selected.

  3. Scroll down to Single sign-on and then click Change.

    Screenshot shows the Change button for Single sign-on.

  4. On the Single sign-on page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Single sign-on page where you enter the values in this step.

    a. Change Require SSO for every member of < account name > to On.

    b. In the name textbox, enter the name for example like azureadsso.

    c. Enter the Sign-on URL value in the Sign-in URL textbox.

    d. In the Sign-out URL textbox, paste the Log out URL value, which you copied previously.

    e. In the SAML Certificate textbox, open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad, copy the content and paste it into SAML Certificate textbox.

    f. In the Name ID Format textbox, use urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:Unspecified for the Name ID Format.

    g. Select SHA-256 from the dropdown for the HASH Algorithm.

    h. Enter appropriate name for the SSO Button Label.

    i. Make Allow Just-in-Time provisioning On.

    j. Click Update.

Create InVision test user

  1. In a different web browser window, sign into InVision site as an administrator.

  2. Click on Team and select People.

    Screenshot shows the Team tab with People selected.

  3. Click on the + ICON to add new user.

    Screenshot shows the + icon to add a user.

  4. Enter the email address of the user and click Next.

    Screenshot shows the Invite to dialog box where you can enter addresses.

  5. Once verify the email address and then click Invite.

    Screenshot shows the Invite dialog where you can select Invite to proceed.

Note

InVision also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

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 InVision Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to InVision 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 InVision 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 InVision 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 InVision 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 InVision 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.