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Microsoft Entra SSO integration with User Interviews

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to User Interviews.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to User Interviews with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with User Interviews, you need:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • User Interviews single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • User Interviews supports both SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • User Interviews supports Just In Time user provisioning.

To configure the integration of User Interviews into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add User Interviews 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 User Interviews in the search box.
  4. Select User Interviews 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for User Interviews

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with User Interviews 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 User Interviews.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with User Interviews, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra ID test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra ID test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure User Interviews SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create User Interviews test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in User Interviews that is linked to the Microsoft Entra ID representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > User Interviews > 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 how to edit Basic SAML Configuration.

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

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Identifier
    https://www.userinterviews.com/saml/metadata?team_id=<team_id>
    https://www.userinterviews.com/saml/metadata?<team_id>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type one of the following URL/Pattern:

    Reply URL
    https://www.userinterviews.com/saml/consume?team_id=<team_id>
    https://www.userinterviews.com/saml/consume

  6. 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://www.userinterviews.com/saml/join?team_id=<team_id>

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact User Interviews support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  7. User Interviews 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.

    Screenshot shows the image of attributes configuration.

  8. In addition to above, User Interviews 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
    first_name user.givenname
    last_name user.surname

  9. 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.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

  10. On the Set up User Interviews section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration URLs.

Create a Microsoft Entra ID test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Microsoft Entra admin center 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 ID test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to User Interviews.

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

  1. Log in to User Interviews company site as an administrator.

  2. Go to Microsoft Entra Setup > Team settings > Advanced options and perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the configuration.

    a. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and paste the content into the SSO Certificate textbox.

    b. In the SSO Entity ID textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier which you have copied from the Microsoft Entra admin center.

    c. In the SSO URL textbox, paste the Login URL value which you copied from the Microsoft Entra admin center.

    d. Click Save.

    e. Copy the ACS URL and paste it in the Reply URL textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

    f. Copy the Entity ID and paste it in the Identifier (Entity ID) textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

Create User Interviews test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in User Interviews. User Interviews 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 User Interviews, 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 in Microsoft Entra admin center. This will redirect to User Interviews Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center and you should be automatically signed in to the User Interviews 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 User Interviews 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 User Interviews 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 User Interviews 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.