Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Circus Street

In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Circus Street with Microsoft Entra ID. Circus Street is a global leader in providing digital training including e-commerce, data analytics and digital marketing to organizations through its proprietary platform.

When you integrate Circus Street with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

• Use Microsoft Entra ID to control who has access to Circus Street.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Circus Street with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

You'll configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on for Circus Street in a test environment. Circus Street supports SP and IDP initiated single sign-on.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Circus Street, you need:

• A Microsoft Entra user account. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles: Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Application Owner.
• A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Circus Street single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Add application and assign a test user

Before you begin the process of configuring single sign-on, you need to add the Circus Street application from the Microsoft Entra gallery. You need a test user account to assign to the application and test the single sign-on configuration.

Add Circus Street from the Microsoft Entra gallery

Add Circus Street from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to configure single sign-on with Circus Street. For more information on how to add application from the gallery, see the Quickstart: Add application from the gallery.

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account article to create a test user account called B.Simon.

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, and assign roles. The wizard also provides a link to the single sign-on configuration pane. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards..

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Complete the following steps to enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

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

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Circus Street > 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, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, the user does not have to perform any step as the app is already preintegrated with Azure.

6. If you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode, then perform the following step:

   In the Sign on URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CustomerSubDomainName>.circusstreet.com

   Note

   This value is not real. Update this value with the actual Sign on URL. Contact Circus Street support team to get the value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

7. Circus Street 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.

   

8. In addition to above, Circus Street 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
   email	user.mail
   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 Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

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

    

Configure Circus Street SSO

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

Create Circus Street test user

In this section, contact Circus Street support team to add the users in the Circus Street 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 Circus Street Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

Additional resources

• What is single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?
• Plan a single sign-on deployment.

Next steps

Once you configure Circus Street 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.