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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Nitro Productivity Suite

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Nitro Productivity Suite.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed in to Nitro Productivity Suite with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location: the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need:

Scenario description

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

  • Nitro Productivity Suite supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • Nitro Productivity Suite supports Just In Time user provisioning.

To configure the integration of Nitro Productivity Suite into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Nitro Productivity Suite 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 Nitro Productivity Suite in the search box.
  4. Select Nitro Productivity Suite from the results, 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 single sign-on for Nitro Productivity Suite

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Nitro Productivity Suite, by using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a linked relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Nitro Productivity Suite.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Nitro Productivity Suite, complete the following building blocks:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO to enable your users to use this feature.

    a. Create a Microsoft Entra test user to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.

    b. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

  2. Create a Nitro Productivity Suite test user to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Nitro Productivity Suite, linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of the 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 > Nitro Productivity Suite application integration page, find the Manage section. Select single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64). Select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot of SAML Signing Certificate section, with Download link highlighted

  5. In the Set up Nitro Productivity Suite section, select the copy icon beside Login URL.

    Screenshot of Set up Nitro Productivity Suite section, with URLs and copy icons highlighted

  6. In the Nitro Admin portal, on the Enterprise Settings page, find the Single Sign-On section. Select Setup SAML SSO.

    a. Paste the Login URL from the preceding step into the Sign In URL field.

    b. Upload the Certificate (Base64) from the earlier step in the X509 Signing Certificate field.

    c. Select Submit.

    d. Select Enable Single Sign-On.

  7. Return to the Azure portal. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Screenshot of Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, with pencil icon highlighted

  8. In the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you want to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier text box, copy and paste the SAML Entity ID field from the Nitro Admin portal. It should have the following pattern: urn:auth0:gonitro-prod:<ENVIRONMENT>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, copy and paste the ACS URL field from the Nitro Admin portal. It should have the following pattern: https://gonitro-prod.eu.auth0.com/login/callback?connection=<ENVIRONMENT>

  9. Select Set additional URLs, and perform the following step if you want to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://sso.gonitro.com/login

  10. Select Save.

  11. The Nitro Productivity Suite application expects the SAML assertions to be 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.

    Screenshot of default attributes

  12. In addition to the preceding attributes, the Nitro Productivity Suite application expects a few more attributes to be passed back in the SAML response. These attributes are pre-populated, but you can review them per your requirements.

    Name Source attribute
    employeeNumber user.objectid

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you 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 enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Nitro Productivity Suite.

  1. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications.
  2. In the applications list, select Nitro Productivity Suite.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section, and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user. Then, in the Add Assignment dialog box, select Users and groups.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog box, select B.Simon from the list of users. Then choose Select 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 box, select Assign.

Create a Nitro Productivity Suite test user

Nitro Productivity Suite supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no additional action for you to take. If a user doesn't already exist in Nitro Productivity Suite, 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:

  1. Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Nitro Productivity Suite Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  2. Go to Nitro Productivity Suite 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 Nitro Productivity Suite for which you set up the SSO

You can also use Microsoft Access Panel to test the application in any mode. When you click the Nitro Productivity Suite tile in the Access Panel, 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 Nitro Productivity Suite for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

Next steps

Once you configure the Nitro Productivity Suite you can enforce session controls, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session controls extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.