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

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

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

Scenario description

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Lucidchart 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 Lucidchart.

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

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
  2. Configure Lucidchart SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    • Create Lucidchart test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Lucidchart 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 > Lucidchart > 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, enter the values for the following fields:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL as: https://chart2.office.lucidchart.com/saml/sso/azure

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

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Lucidchart 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 Lucidchart.

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

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

  2. In the menu on the top, click Team.

    Team

  3. Click Applications > Manage SAML.

    Manage SAML

  4. On the SAML Authentication Settings dialog page, perform the following steps:

    a. Select Enable SAML Authentication, and then click Optional.

    SAML Authentication Settings

    b. In the Domain textbox, type your domain, and then click Change Certificate.

    Change Certificate

    c. Open your downloaded metadata file, copy the content, and then paste it into the Upload Metadata textbox.

    Upload Metadata

    d. Select Automatically Add new users to the team, and then click Save changes.

    Save Changes

Create Lucidchart test user

There is no action item for you to configure user provisioning to Lucidchart. When an assigned user tries to log into Lucidchart using the access panel, Lucidchart checks whether the user exists.

If there is no user account available yet, it is automatically created by Lucidchart.

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

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

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Lucidchart tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Lucidchart 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 the Lucidchart you can enforce session controls, which protect exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real-time. Session controls extend from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.