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Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with HeyBuddy

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate HeyBuddy with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate HeyBuddy with Azure AD, you can:

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to HeyBuddy.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to HeyBuddy 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.
  • HeyBuddy single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • HeyBuddy supports SP initiated SSO
  • HeyBuddy 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 HeyBuddy into Azure AD, you need to add HeyBuddy 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 HeyBuddy in the search box.
  6. Select HeyBuddy 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 HeyBuddy

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with HeyBuddy 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 HeyBuddy.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with HeyBuddy, 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 HeyBuddy SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create HeyBuddy test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in HeyBuddy 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 HeyBuddy 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, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://api.heybuddy.com/auth/<ENTITY ID>

    Note

    The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. The Entity ID in the Sign on URL is auto generated for each organization. Contact HeyBuddy Client support team to get these values.

  5. HeyBuddy application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

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  6. In addition to above, EZOfficeInventory application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirement.

    Name Source Attribute
    Roles user.assignedroles

    Note

    Please refer to this link on how to configure and setup the roles for the application.

  7. 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

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 HeyBuddy.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
  2. In the applications list, select HeyBuddy.
  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 have setup the roles as explained in the above, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure HeyBuddy SSO

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

Create HeyBuddy test user

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

Note

If you need to create a user manually, contact HeyBuddy support team.

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. This will redirect to HeyBuddy Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure HeyBuddy 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.