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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Manifestly Checklists

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Manifestly Checklists supports SP and IDP 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 Manifestly Checklists into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Manifestly Checklists 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 Manifestly Checklists in the search box.
  4. Select Manifestly Checklists 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 Manifestly Checklists

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Manifestly Checklists 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 Manifestly Checklists.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Manifestly Checklists, 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 Manifestly Checklists SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Manifestly Checklists test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Manifestly Checklists 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 > Manifestly Checklists > 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 Identifier text box, type the URL: https://app.manifest.ly/users/saml/metadata

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type the URL: https://app.manifest.ly/users/saml/auth

    c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Sign-on URL
    https://app.manifest.ly/users/sign_in
    https://app.manifest.ly/a/<CustomerName>

    Note

    This value is not real. Update this value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact Manifestly Checklists Client support team to get this value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. Manifestly Checklists 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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  7. In addition to above, Manifestly Checklists 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
    email user.mail
    first_name user.givenname
    last_name user.surname

  8. 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.

    The Certificate download link

  9. On the Set up Manifestly Checklists section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on 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 Manifestly Checklists.

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

  1. Log in to your Manifestly Checklists company site as an administrator.

  2. Go to Settings > SSO and click Set up SAML Sign On button.

    Screenshot shows the SSO Settings.

  3. In the Edit SAML Single Sign page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the SSO Configuration.

    1. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and paste the content into the SAML Cert textbox.

    2. In the SAML Entity textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value which you copied previously.

    3. In the SAML URL textbox, paste the Login URL value which you copied previously.

    4. Click Save.

Create Manifestly Checklists test user

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

  2. Go to Teams > Users and click Add User.

    Screenshot shows the Team Members.

  3. Enter the Name and Email in the textbox and click Send Invite.

    Screenshot shows to add users.

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 Manifestly Checklists Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Manifestly Checklists 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 Manifestly Checklists 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 Manifestly Checklists 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 Manifestly Checklists for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Manifestly Checklists 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 Cloud App Security.