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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with SilkRoad Life Suite

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

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

Prerequisites

To configure Microsoft Entra integration with SilkRoad Life Suite, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra environment, you can get a free account.
  • SilkRoad Life Suite single sign-on enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

  • SilkRoad Life Suite supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with SilkRoad Life Suite 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 SilkRoad Life Suite.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with SilkRoad Life Suite, 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 SilkRoad Life Suite SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create SilkRoad Life Suite test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in SilkRoad Life Suite 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 > SilkRoad Life Suite > 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 have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

    Note

    You will get the Service Provider metadata file explained later in this tutorial.

    a. Click Upload metadata file.

    Screenshot shows Basic SAML Configuration with the Upload metadata file link.

    b. Click on folder logo to select the metadata file and click Upload.

    Screenshot shows a dialog box where you can select and upload a file.

    c. Once the metadata file is successfully uploaded, the Identifier and Reply URL values get auto populated in Basic SAML Configuration section.

    Note

    If the Identifier and Reply URL values are not getting auto populated, then fill in the values manually according to your requirement.

    d. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/

  6. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you do not have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Identifier URL
    https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/SP
    https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad.com/Authentication/SP

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

    Reply URL
    https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/
    https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad.com/Authentication/

    c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier,Reply URL and Sign-On URL. Contact SilkRoad Life Suite Client support 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, click Download to download the Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up SilkRoad Life Suite section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 SilkRoad Life Suite.

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

  1. Sign in to your SilkRoad company site as administrator.

    Note

    To obtain access to the SilkRoad Life Suite Authentication application for configuring federation with Microsoft Entra ID, please contact SilkRoad Support or your SilkRoad Services representative.

  2. Go to Service Provider, and then click Federation Details.

    Screenshot shows Federation Details selected from Service Provider.

  3. Click Download Federation Metadata, and then save the metadata file on your computer. Use Downloaded Federation Metadata as a Service Provider metadata file in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

    Screenshot shows the Download Federation Metadata link.

  4. In your SilkRoad application, click Authentication Sources.

    Screenshot shows Authentication Sources selected.

  5. Click Add Authentication Source.

    Screenshot shows the Add Authentication Source link.

  6. In the Add Authentication Source section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows Add Authentication Source with the Create Identity Provider using File Data button selected.

    a. Under Option 2 - Metadata File, click Browse to upload the downloaded metadata file from Azure portal.

    b. Click Create Identity Provider using File Data.

  7. In the Authentication Sources section, click Edit.

    Screenshot shows Authentication Sources with the Edit option selected.

  8. On the Edit Authentication Source dialog, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Edit Authentication Source dialog box where you can enter the values described.

    a. As Enabled, select Yes.

    b. In the EntityId textbox, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier..

    c. In the IdP Description textbox, type a description for your configuration (for example: Microsoft Entra SSO).

    d. In the Metadata File textbox, Upload the metadata file which you have downloaded previously.

    e. In the IdP Name textbox, type a name that is specific to your configuration (for example: Azure SP).

    f. In the Logout Service URL textbox, paste the value of Logout URL..

    g. In the Sign-on service URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL..

    h. Click Save.

  9. Disable all other authentication sources.

    Screenshot shows Authentication Sources where you can disable other sources.

Create SilkRoad Life Suite test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in SilkRoad Life Suite. Work with SilkRoad Life Suite Client support team to add the users in the SilkRoad Life Suite 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, this will redirect to SilkRoad Life Suite Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure SilkRoad Life Suite 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.