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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Kudos

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Kudos.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Kudos with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To configure Microsoft Entra integration with Kudos, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra environment, you can get a free account.
  • Kudos single sign-on enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • Kudos supports SP initiated SSO.

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 Kudos into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Kudos 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 Kudos in the search box.
  4. Select Kudos 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 Kudos

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Kudos 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 Kudos.

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

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

    Note

    The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact Kudos Client support team to get the value. 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 Kudos 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 Kudos.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign into your Kudos company site as an administrator.

  2. In the menu on the top, click Settings icon.

    Settings

  3. Click Integrations > SSO and perform the following steps:

    SSO

    a. In Sign on URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL..

    b. Open your base-64 encoded certificate in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the X.509 certificate textbox

    c. In Logout To URL textbox, paste the value of Logout URL..

    d. In the Your Kudos URL textbox, type your company name.

    e. Click Save.

Create Kudos test user

In order to enable Microsoft Entra users to sign in to Kudos, they must be provisioned into Kudos. In the case of Kudos, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Kudos company site as administrator.

  2. In the menu on the top, click Settings icon.

    Settings

  3. Click User Admin.

  4. Click the Users tab, and then click Add a User.

    User Admin

  5. In the Add a User section, perform the following steps:

    Add a User

    a. Type the First Name, Last Name, Email and other details of a valid Microsoft Entra account you want to provision into the related textboxes.

    b. Click Create User.

Note

You can use any other Kudos user account creation tools or APIs provided by Kudos to provision Microsoft Entra user accounts.

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 Kudos Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Kudos 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.