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Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with directprint.io Cloud Print Administration

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate directprint.io Cloud Print Administration with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate directprint.io Cloud Print Administration with Azure AD, you can:

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to directprint.io Cloud Print Administration.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to directprint.io Cloud Print Administration with their Azure AD accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • directprint.io Cloud Print Administration single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.

  • directprint.io Cloud Print Administration supports IDP initiated SSO.

  • directprint.io Cloud Print Administration supports Just In Time user provisioning.

To configure the integration of directprint.io Cloud Print Administration into Azure AD, you need to add directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration in the search box.
  6. Select directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with directprint.io Cloud Print Administration, 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create directprint.io Cloud Print Administration test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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 the application is pre-configured in IDP initiated mode and the necessary URLs are already pre-populated with Azure. The user needs to save the configuration by clicking the Save button.

  5. 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.

    The Certificate download link

  6. On the Set up directprint.io Cloud Print Administration section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
  2. In the applications list, select directprint.io Cloud Print Administration.
  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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration SSO

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

Create directprint.io Cloud Print Administration test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in directprint.io Cloud Print Administration. directprint.io Cloud Print Administration supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in directprint.io Cloud Print Administration, a new one is created after authentication.

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 and you should be automatically signed in to the directprint.io Cloud Print Administration for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the directprint.io Cloud Print Administration tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the directprint.io Cloud Print Administration for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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.