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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with deBroome Brand Portal

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to deBroome Brand Portal.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to deBroome Brand Portal 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.
  • deBroome Brand Portal 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.

  • deBroome Brand Portal supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • deBroome Brand Portal supports Just In Time user provisioning.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with deBroome Brand Portal 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 deBroome Brand Portal.

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

  1. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerBrandPortalUrl>/rv2/saml2/metadata

    b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerBrandPortalUrl>/rv2/saml2/acs

  2. 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://<CustomerBrandPortalUrl>/sso

    Note

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

  3. deBroome Brand Portal 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.

    image

  4. In addition to above, deBroome Brand Portal 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

  5. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, In the SAML Signing Certificate section, click copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

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 deBroome Brand Portal.

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

To configure single sign-on on deBroome Brand Portal side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to deBroome Brand Portal support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create deBroome Brand Portal test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in deBroome Brand Portal. deBroome Brand Portal 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 deBroome Brand Portal, 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, this will redirect to deBroome Brand Portal Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to deBroome Brand Portal 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 deBroome Brand Portal 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 deBroome Brand Portal 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 deBroome Brand Portal 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 deBroome Brand Portal 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.