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Tutorial: Azure Active Directory integration with Attendance Management Services

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Attendance Management Services with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Attendance Management Services with Azure AD, you can:

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to Attendance Management Services.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Attendance Management Services with their Azure AD accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To configure Azure AD integration with Attendance Management Services, you need the following items:

  • An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have an Azure AD environment, you can get a free account.
  • Attendance Management Services single sign-on enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • Attendance Management Services supports SP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of Attendance Management Services into Azure AD, you need to add Attendance Management Services from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
  2. On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
  3. Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
  4. To add new application, select New application.
  5. In the Add from the gallery section, type Attendance Management Services in the search box.
  6. Select Attendance Management Services 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 Azure AD SSO for Attendance Management Services

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Attendance Management Services using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in Attendance Management Services.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Attendance Management Services, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
  2. Configure Attendance Management Services SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Attendance Management Services test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Attendance Management Services that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.

  1. In the Azure portal, on the Attendance Management Services application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.

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

  3. 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

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

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://id.obc.jp/<TENANT_INFORMATION>/

    b. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://id.obc.jp/<TENANT_INFORMATION>/

    Note

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

  5. 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

  6. On the Set up Attendance Management Services section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

Create an Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.

  1. From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
  2. Select New user at the top of the screen.
  3. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User 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. Click Create.

Assign the Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Attendance Management Services.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
  2. In the applications list, select Attendance Management Services.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button 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, click the Assign button.

Configure Attendance Management Services SSO

  1. In a different browser window, sign-on to your Attendance Management Services company site as administrator.

  2. Click on SAML authentication under the Security management section.

    Screenshot shows SAML authentication selected in a page that uses non-latin characters.

  3. Perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows window where you can perform the tasks described in this step.

    a. Select Use SAML authentication.

    b. In the Identifier textbox, paste the value of Azure AD Identifier value, which you have copied from Azure portal.

    c. In the Authentication endpoint URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL value, which you have copied from Azure portal.

    d. Click Select a file to upload the certificate which you downloaded from Azure AD.

    e. Select Disable password authentication.

    f. Click Registration.

Create Attendance Management Services test user

To enable Azure AD users to sign in to Attendance Management Services, they must be provisioned into Attendance Management Services. In the case of Attendance Management Services, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Attendance Management Services company site as an administrator.

  2. Click on User management under the Security management section.

    Screenshot shows User management selected in a page that uses non-latin characters.

  3. Click New rules login.

    Screenshot shows selecting the plus option.

  4. In the OBCiD information section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows window where you can perform the tasks described.

    a. In the OBCiD textbox, type the email of user like BrittaSimon@contoso.com.

    b. In the Password textbox, type the password of user.

    c. Click Registration

Test SSO

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

  • Click on Test this application in Azure portal. This will redirect to Attendance Management Services Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Attendance Management Services 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.