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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Meta Work Accounts

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Meta Work Accounts supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Meta Work Accounts 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 Meta Work Accounts.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Meta Work Accounts, 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 Meta Work Accounts SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Meta Work Accounts test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Meta Work Accounts 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 > Meta Work Accounts > 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, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://work.facebook.com/company/<ID>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://work.facebook.com/work/saml.php?__cid=<ID>

  6. 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 the URL: https://work.facebook.com

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Engage the Work Accounts team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  7. 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

  8. On the Set up Meta Work Accounts 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 Meta Work Accounts.

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

  1. Log in to your Meta Work Accounts company site as an administrator.

  2. Go to Security > Single Sign-On.

  3. Enable Single-sign on(SSO) checkbox and click +Add new SSO Provider.

  1. On the Single Sign-On (SSO) Setup page, perform the following steps:

  1. Enter a valid Name of the SSO Provider.

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

  3. In the SAML Issuer URL textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value which you copied previously.

  4. Enable SAML logout redirection checkbox and in the SAML Logout URL textbox, paste the Logout URL value which you copied previously.

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

  6. Copy Audience URL value, paste this value into the Identifier textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  7. Copy ACS (Assertion Consumer Service) URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  8. In the Test SSO Setup section, enter a valid email in the textbox and click Test SSO.

  9. Click Save Changes.

Create Meta Work Accounts test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Meta Work Accounts. Work with the Work Accounts team to add the users in the Meta Work Accounts platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

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 Meta Work Accounts Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

Next steps

Once you configure Meta Work Accounts 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.