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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with GaggleAMP

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • GaggleAMP supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

  • GaggleAMP supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with GaggleAMP 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 GaggleAMP.

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

    In the Identifier text box, type the URL: https://accounts.gaggleamp.com/auth/saml/callback

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up GaggleAMP 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 GaggleAMP.

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

  1. In another browser instance, navigate to the SAML SSO page created for you by the Gaggle support team (for example: https://accounts.gaggleamp.com/saml_configurations/oXH8sQcP79dOzgFPqrMTyw/edit).

  2. On your SAML SSO page, perform the following steps:

    GaggleAMP Single Sign-On

    a. Select Other from the Identity provider dropdown menu.

    b. In the Identity Provider Issuer textbox, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier..

    c. In the Identity Provider Single Sign-On URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL..

    d. Open your downloaded Certificate(Base64) file in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the X.509 Certificate textbox.

    e. Click Save.

Create GaggleAMP test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in GaggleAMP. GaggleAMP 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 GaggleAMP, 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:

  • Visit the invitation page of your Gaggle, you can find its unique link on the Manager View, menu option Members > Invite.

  • Click the Sign in with SAML button to initiate the login flow from there.

IdP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to GaggleAMP.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the GaggleAMP 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 GaggleAMP for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure GaggleAMP 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.