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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Bime

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Bime.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Bime 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.
  • Bime single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • Bime supports SP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of Bime into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Bime 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 Bime in the search box.
  4. Select Bime 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 Bime

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Bime 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 Bime.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Bime, 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 Bime SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Bime test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Bime 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 > Bime > 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.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. 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://<tenant-name>.Bimeapp.com

    b. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<tenant-name>.Bimeapp.com

    Note

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

  6. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Edit button to open SAML Signing Certificate dialog.

    Edit SAML Signing Certificate

  7. In the SAML Signing Certificate section, copy the THUMBPRINT and save it on your computer.

    Copy Thumbprint value

  8. On the Set up Bime section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Copy configuration 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 Bime.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, log into your Bime company site as an administrator.

  2. In the toolbar, click Admin, and then Account.

    Screenshot shows the Admin item selected and Account selected.

  3. On the account configuration page, perform the following steps:

    Configure Single Sign-On

    a. Select Enable SAML authentication.

    b. In the Remote Login URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL.

    c. In the Certificate Fingerprint textbox, paste the THUMBPRINT value..

    d. Click Save.

Create Bime test user

In order to enable Microsoft Entra users to log in to Bime, they must be provisioned into Bime. In the case of Bime, provisioning is a manual task.

To configure user provisioning, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to your Bime tenant.

  2. In the toolbar, click Admin, and then Users.

    Screenshot shows the Admin item selected and Users selected.

  3. In the Users List, click Add New User (“+”).

    Users

  4. On the User Details dialog page, perform the following steps:

    User Details

    a. In the First name textbox, enter the first name of user like Britta.

    b. In the Last name textbox, enter the last name of user like Simon.

    c. In the Email textbox, enter the email of user like brittasimon@contoso.com.

    d. Click Save.

Note

You can use any other Bime user account creation tools or APIs provided by Bime to provision Microsoft Entra user accounts.

Test SSO

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

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Bime Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Bime tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Bime Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Bime 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.