Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Prosci Portal

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

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Prosci Portal.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Prosci Portal with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Prosci Portal, you need:

• A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Prosci Portal single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Prosci Portal supports SP initiated SSO.

Note

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

Adding Prosci Portal from the gallery

To configure the integration of Prosci Portal into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Prosci Portal 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 Prosci Portal in the search box.
4. Select Prosci Portal 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Prosci Portal

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Prosci Portal 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 Prosci Portal.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Prosci Portal, 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 Prosci Portal SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Prosci Portal test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Prosci Portal 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 in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Prosci Portal > 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.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

   a. In the Identifier textbox, type one of the following values:

   Environment	URL
   Production	urn:auth0:prosci-prod:microsoft
   Staging	urn:auth0:prosci-staging:microsoft

   b. In the Reply URL textbox, type one of the following URLs:

   Environment	URL
   Production	https://id.prosci.com/login/callback?connection=microsoft
   Staging	https://id-staging.prosci.com/login/callback?connection=microsoft

   c. In the Sign on URL textbox, type one of the following URLs:

   Environment	URL
   Production	https://id.prosci.com
   Staging	https://id-staging.prosci.com

   d. In the Relay State textbox, type one of the following URLs:

   Environment	URL
   Production	https://portal.prosci.com
   Staging	https://portal-staging.prosci.com

   e. In the Logout Url textbox, type one of the following URLs:

   Environment	URL
   Production	https://id.prosci.com/logout
   Staging	https://id-staging.prosci.com/logout

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.

   

7. On the Set up Prosci Portal section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you create a test user in the Microsoft Entra admin center 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 Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to Prosci Portal.

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

To configure single sign-on on Prosci Portal side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from Microsoft Entra admin center to Prosci Portal support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Prosci Portal test user

In this section, you create a user called B.Simon in Prosci Portal. Work with Prosci Portal support team to add the users in the Prosci Portal 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.

• Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center. This will redirect to Prosci Portal Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Prosci Portal tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Prosci Portal Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next Steps

Once you configure Prosci Portal 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.