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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with FileCloud

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

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

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

  • FileCloud supports SP initiated SSO.

  • FileCloud supports Just In Time user provisioning.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with FileCloud 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 FileCloud.

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

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.filecloudonline.com

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.filecloudonline.com/simplesaml/module.php/saml/sp/metadata.php/default-sp

    Note

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

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up FileCloud section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 FileCloud.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign-on to your FileCloud tenant as an administrator.

  2. On the left navigation pane, click Settings.

    Screenshot that shows "Settings" highlighted in the left navigation pane.

  3. Click SSO tab on Settings section.

    Screenshot that shows the "Settings" section with the "S S O" tab selected.

  4. Select SAML as Default SSO Type on Single Sign On (SSO) Settings panel.

    Screenshot that shows the "Single Sign On (S S O) Settings" panel with "S A M L" selected.

  5. In the IdP End Point URL textbox, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier..

    Screenshot that shows the "S A M L Settings" section with "I d P End Point U R L" highlighted.

  6. Open your downloaded metadata file in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the IdP Meta Data textbox on SAML Settings panel.

    Configure Single Sign-On On App side

  7. Click Save button.

Create FileCloud test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in FileCloud. FileCloud 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 FileCloud, a new one is created after authentication.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, you need to contact the FileCloud Client support team.

Test SSO

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

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure FileCloud 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.