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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Mind Tools Toolkit

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Mind Tools Toolkit.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed in to Mind Tools Toolkit (single sign-on) with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location: the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To configure Microsoft Entra integration with Mind Tools Toolkit, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • A Mind Tools Toolkit subscription with single sign-on (SSO) enabled.

Scenario description

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

  • Mind Tools Toolkit supports SP-initiated SSO.
  • Mind Tools Toolkit supports just-in-time user provisioning.

Note

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

To configure the integration of Mind Tools Toolkit into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Mind Tools Toolkit 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, enter Mind Tools Toolkit in the search box.
  4. Select Mind Tools Toolkit from the search results, 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 Mind Tools Toolkit

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Mind Tools Toolkit 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 Mind Tools Toolkit.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Mind Tools Toolkit, 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 Mind Tools Toolkit SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Mind Tools Toolkit test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Mind Tools Toolkit 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 > Mind Tools Toolkit > 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. In the Basic SAML Configuration section, in the Sign-on URL box, enter a URL having the pattern https://app.goodpractice.net/#/<subscriptionUrl>/s/<LOCATION_ID>.

    Note

    The Sign-on URL value isn't real. Update the value with the actual sign-on URL. Contact the Mind Tools Toolkit Client support team to get the value.

  6. On the Set-up Single Sign-On with SAML page, go to the SAML Signing Certificate section. To the right of Federation Metadata XML, select Download to download the XML text and save it on your computer. The XML contents depend on the options you select.

    The SAML Signing Certificate section, with Download highlighted next to Federation Metadata XML

  7. In the Set up Mind Tools Toolkit section, copy whichever of the following URLs you need.

    The Set up Mind Tools Toolkit section, with the configuration URLs highlighted

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 Mind Tools Toolkit.

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

To configure single sign-on on the Mind Tools Toolkit side, send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML text and the previously copied URLs to the Mind Tools Toolkit support team. They configure this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Mind Tools Toolkit test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Mind Tools Toolkit. Mind Tools Toolkit supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There's no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Mind Tools Toolkit, 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, this will redirect to Mind Tools Toolkit Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Mind Tools Toolkit tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Mind Tools Toolkit Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Mind Tools Toolkit 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.