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

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Podbean supports SP initiated SSO

  • Podbean supports Just In Time user provisioning

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Podbean 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 Podbean.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Podbean, 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 Podbean SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Podbean test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Podbean 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 > Podbean > 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 edit/pen 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 a URL using the following pattern: https://www.podbean.com/sso/<CUSTOM_ID>

    Note

    The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact Podbean 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, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Podbean 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 Podbean.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to Podbean as an Administrator.

  2. Click Settings -> SSO Login on the left sidebar.

  3. Click on the URL, which is showing in the below image to download the Podbean SSO Metadata File and save it in your computer.

    screenshot to download the Podbean SSO Metadata File

  4. Upload the Federation Metadata XML file in the SSO IDP Metadata File.

  5. Set your Email domain, SSO Organization Name and click on Submit.

    screenshot to upload the Metadata File

Create Podbean test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Podbean. Podbean supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Podbean, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

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

  1. Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Podbean Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  2. Go to Podbean Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  3. You can use Microsoft Access Panel. When you click the Podbean tile in the Access Panel, this will redirect to Podbean Sign-on URL. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

Next steps

Once you configure Podbean 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.