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Tutorial: Integrate Replicon with Microsoft Entra ID

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

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

Note

This integration is also available to use from Microsoft Entra US Government Cloud environment. You can find this application in the Microsoft Entra US Government Cloud Application Gallery and configure it in the same way as you do from public cloud.

Scenario description

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

  • Replicon supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Replicon 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 Replicon.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Replicon, 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 Replicon SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Replicon test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Replicon 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 > Replicon application integration page, find the Manage section and select 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 page, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://global.replicon.com/!/saml2/<client name>/sp-sso/post

    b. In the Identifier box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://global.replicon.com/!/saml2/<client name>

    c. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://global.replicon.com/!/saml2/<client name>/sso/post

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign-On URL, Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Replicon Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. Click the pencil icon for SAML Signing Certificate to edit the settings.

    Signing Algorithm

    1. Select Sign SAML assertion as the Signing Option.

    2. Select SHA-256 as the Signing Algorithm.

  7. 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

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 Replicon.

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

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

  2. To configure SAML 2.0, perform the following steps:

    Enable SAML authentication

    a. To display the EnableSAML Authentication2 dialog, append the following to your URL, after your company key: /services/SecurityService1.svc/help/test/EnableSAMLAuthentication2

    1. The following shows the schema of the complete URL: https://na2.replicon.com/<YourCompanyKey>/services/SecurityService1.svc/help/test/EnableSAMLAuthentication2

    b. Click the + to expand the v20Configuration section.

    c. Click the + to expand the metaDataConfiguration section.

    d. Select SHA256 for xmlSignatureAlgorithm

    e. Click Choose File, to select your identity provider metadata XML file, and click Submit.

Create Replicon test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called B.Simon in Replicon.

If you need to create user manually, perform following steps:

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

  2. Go to Administration > Users.

    Users

  3. Click +Add User.

    Add User

  4. In the User Profile section, perform the following steps:

    User profile

    a. In the Login Name textbox, type the Microsoft Entra ID email address of the Microsoft Entra user you want to provision like B.Simon@contoso.com.

    Note

    Login Name needs to match the user's email address in Microsoft Entra ID

    b. As Authentication Type, select SSO.

    c. Set Authentication ID to the same value as Login Name (The Microsoft Entra ID email address of the user)

    d. In the Department textbox, type the user’s department.

    e. As Employee Type, select Administrator.

    f. Click Save User Profile.

Note

You can use any other Replicon user account creation tools or APIs provided by Replicon to provision Microsoft Entra user accounts.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Replicon 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.