Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Leapsome

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10/23/2023

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

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

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

Leapsome supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
Leapsome supports Automated user provisioning.

Note

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

Add Leapsome from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Leapsome 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 Leapsome.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Leapsome, perform the following steps:

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.
Configure Leapsome SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
1. Create Leapsome test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Leapsome 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 > Leapsome > 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, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

a. In the Identifier text box, type the URL: https://www.leapsome.com

b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.leapsome.com/api/users/auth/saml/<CLIENTID>/assert
Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://www.leapsome.com/api/users/auth/saml/<CLIENTID>/login

Note

The preceding Reply URL and Sign-on URL value is not real value. You will update these with the actual values, which is explained later in the tutorial.
Leapsome 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.

In addition to above, Leapsome 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 requirements.

Name	Source Attribute	Namespace
firstname	user.givenname	https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims
lastname	user.surname	https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims
title	user.jobtitle	https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims
picture	URL to the employee's picture	https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims

Note

The value of picture attribute is not real. Update this value with actual picture URL. To get this value contact Leapsome Client support team.

On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.
On the Set up Leapsome section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

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:
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.
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 Leapsome.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Leapsome.
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 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
In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Leapsome SSO

In a different web browser window, sign in to Leapsome as a Security Administrator.
On the top right, Click on Settings logo and then click Admin Settings.
On the left menu bar click Single Sign On (SSO), and on the SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) page perform the following steps:

a. Select Enable SAML-based single sign-on.

b. Copy the Login URL (point your users here to start login) value and paste it into the Sign-on URL textbox in Basic SAML Configuration section.

c. Copy the Reply URL (receives response from your identity provider) value and paste it into the Reply URL textbox in Basic SAML Configuration section.

d. In the SSO Login URL (provided by identity provider) textbox, paste the value of Login URL, which you copied.

e. Copy the Certificate that you have downloaded from Azure portal without --BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE-- comments and paste it in the Certificate (provided by identity provider) textbox.

f. Click UPDATE SSO SETTINGS.

Create Leapsome test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Leapsome. Work with Leapsome Client support team to add the users or the domain that must be added to an allow list for the Leapsome platform. If the domain is added by the team, users will get automatically provisioned to the Leapsome platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

Leapsome also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

SP initiated:

Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Leapsome Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Leapsome Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Leapsome for which you set up the SSO.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Leapsome tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Leapsome for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Leapsome 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.