Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Frontify
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Frontify with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Frontify with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:
- Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Frontify.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Frontify 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.
- Frontify single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.
- Frontify supports SP initiated SSO.
Add Frontify from the gallery
To configure the integration of Frontify into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Frontify from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
- Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
- In the Add from the gallery section, type Frontify in the search box.
- Select Frontify 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 Frontify
Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Frontify 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 Frontify.
To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Frontify, perform the following steps:
- Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
- Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
- Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
- Configure Frontify SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create Frontify test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Frontify that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
- Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.
Configure Microsoft Entra SSO
Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Frontify > Single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
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://<DOMAIN NAME>/api/auth/saml/metadata/
b. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<DOMAIN NAME>/
Note
These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Sign on URL. Contact Frontify Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.
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.
Create a Microsoft Entra test user
In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
- Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
- Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
- In the User properties, follow these steps:
- In the Display name field, enter
B.Simon
. - In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example,
B.Simon@contoso.com
. - Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
- Select Review + create.
- In the Display name field, enter
- 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 Frontify.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
- Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Frontify.
- In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
- Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
- In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
- If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
- In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.
Configure Frontify SSO
To configure single sign-on on Frontify side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to Frontify support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.
Create Frontify test user
In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Frontify. Work with Frontify support team to add the users in the Frontify 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, this will redirect to Frontify Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Frontify Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Frontify tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Frontify Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.
Next steps
Once you configure Frontify 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.