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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra 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 Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate directprint.io Cloud Print Administration with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID 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 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.
  • directprint.io Cloud Print Administration single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra 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 Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add directprint.io Cloud Print Administration 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 directprint.io Cloud Print Administration in the search box.
  4. 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 Microsoft Entra SSO for directprint.io Cloud Print Administration

Configure and test Microsoft Entra 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 a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in directprint.io Cloud Print Administration.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with directprint.io Cloud Print Administration, 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 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 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 > directprint.io Cloud Print Administration > 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 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.

  6. 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

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

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > directprint.io Cloud Print Administration.
  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 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 Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application, 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.