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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with BMIS - Battery Management Information System

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate BMIS - Battery Management Information System with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate BMIS - Battery Management Information System with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to BMIS - Battery Management Information System.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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.
  • BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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.

  • BMIS - Battery Management Information System supports IDP initiated SSO.

Add BMIS - Battery Management Information System from the gallery

To configure the integration of BMIS - Battery Management Information System into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 BMIS - Battery Management Information System in the search box.
  4. Select BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 BMIS - Battery Management Information System

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 BMIS - Battery Management Information System.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with BMIS - Battery Management Information System, 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 BMIS - Battery Management Information System SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create BMIS - Battery Management Information System test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 > BMIS - Battery Management Information System > 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 SAML Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, the application is pre-configured and the necessary URLs are already pre-populated with Azure. The user needs to save the configuration by clicking the Save button.

  6. BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 Battery Management Information System application image.

  7. In addition to above, BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 requirement.

    Name Source Attribute
    email user.mail
    first_name user.givenname
    last_name user.surname
    user_name user.mail

  8. On the Set-up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

  9. On the Set up BMIS - Battery Management Information System section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration appropriate 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 BMIS - Battery Management Information System.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > BMIS - Battery Management Information System.
  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 BMIS - Battery Management Information System SSO

To configure single sign-on on BMIS - Battery Management Information System side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to BMIS - Battery Management Information System support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create BMIS - Battery Management Information System test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in BMIS - Battery Management Information System. Work with BMIS - Battery Management Information System support team to add the users in the BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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.

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the BMIS - Battery Management Information System for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the BMIS - Battery Management Information System tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the BMIS - Battery Management Information System for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure BMIS - Battery Management Information System 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 Cloud App Security.