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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Agile Provisioning

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Agile Provisioning.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Agile Provisioning 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.
  • Agile Provisioning 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.

  • Agile Provisioning supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of Agile Provisioning into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Agile Provisioning 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 Agile Provisioning in the search box.
  4. Select Agile Provisioning from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Agile Provisioning

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Agile Provisioning 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 Agile Provisioning.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Agile Provisioning, 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 Agile Provisioning SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Agile Provisioning test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Agile Provisioning 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 > Agile Provisioning > 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 S A M L Configuration.

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

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a value using the following pattern: <CustomerFullyQualifiedName>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerFullyQualifiedName>/web-portal/saml/SSO

  6. 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://<CustomerFullyQualifiedName>/web-portal/

    Note

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

  7. 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.

    Screenshot shows 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 Agile Provisioning.

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

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

Create Agile Provisioning test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Agile Provisioning. Work with Agile Provisioning support team to add the users in the Agile Provisioning platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

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 Agile Provisioning Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Agile Provisioning 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 Agile Provisioning 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 Agile Provisioning 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 Agile Provisioning for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Agile Provisioning 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.