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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with HappyFox

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to HappyFox.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to HappyFox 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.
  • HappyFox single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • HappyFox supports SP initiated SSO.

  • HappyFox supports Just In Time user provisioning.

To configure the integration of HappyFox into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add HappyFox 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 HappyFox in the search box.
  4. Select HappyFox 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 HappyFox

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with HappyFox 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 HappyFox.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with HappyFox, 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 HappyFox SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create HappyFox test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in HappyFox 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 > HappyFox > 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, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.happyfox.com/

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.happyfox.com/saml/metadata/

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact HappyFox Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up HappyFox section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 HappyFox.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign-on to your HappyFox tenant as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Manage, click on Integrations tab.

    Screenshot that shows the "Manage" page with the "Integrations" tab selected.

  3. In the Integrations tab, click Configure under SAML Integration to open the Single Sign On Settings.

    Screenshot that shows the "S A M L Integration" setting with the "configure" action selected.

  4. Inside SAML configuration section, paste the Login URL value, which you have into SSO Target URL textbox.

    Screenshot that shows the "S A M L Configuration" section with the "S S O Target U R L" textbox highlighted.

  5. Open the certificate downloaded from Azure portal in notepad and paste its content in IdP Signature section.

    Screenshot that shows the "I d P Signature" section highlighted.

  6. Click Save Settings button.

    Configure Single Sign-On

Create HappyFox test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in HappyFox. HappyFox 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 HappyFox, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration using the My Apps.

  1. When you click the HappyFox tile in the My Apps, you should get login page of HappyFox application. You should see the ‘SAML’ button on the sign-in page.

    Plugin

  2. Click the SAML button to log in to HappyFox using your Microsoft Entra account.

For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure HappyFox 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.