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Microsoft Entra SSO integration with The People Experience Hub

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate The People Experience Hub with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate The People Experience Hub with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with The People Experience Hub, you need:

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

Scenario description

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

  • The People Experience Hub supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

Note

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with The People Experience Hub 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 The People Experience Hub.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with The People Experience Hub, 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 The People Experience Hub SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create The People Experience Hub test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in The People Experience Hub 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 > The People Experience Hub > 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.

    Screenshot shows how to edit Basic SAML Configuration.

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

    a. In the Identifier textbox, type the URL: https://app.pxhub.io

    b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://auth.api.pxhub.io/v1/auth/saml/<COMPANY_ID>/assert

  6. Perform the following step, if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign on URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://auth.api.pxhub.io/v1/auth/saml/<COMPANY_ID>/login

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact The People Experience Hub support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

  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.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up The People Experience Hub section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration appropriate URL.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll 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 The People Experience Hub.

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

  1. Log in to The People Experience Hub company site as an administrator.

  2. Go to Admin Settings > Integrations > Single Sign-On and click Manage.

    Screenshot shows settings of the configuration.

  3. In the SAML 2.0 Single sign-on page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows configuration of the page.

    1. Enable SAML 2.0 Single sign-on toggle on.

    2. Copy EntityID value, paste this value into the Identifier textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in Microsoft Entra admin center.

    3. Copy Login URL value, paste this value into the Sign on URL textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in Microsoft Entra admin center.

    4. Copy Reply URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL textbox in the Basic SAML Configuration section in Microsoft Entra admin center.

    5. In the SSO Login URL textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you copied from the Microsoft Entra admin center.

    6. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and paste the content into the X509 Certificate textbox.

    7. Click Save Configuration.

Create The People Experience Hub test user

  1. In a different web browser window, sign into The People Experience Hub website as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Admin Settings > Users and click Create.

    Screenshot shows how to create users in application.

  3. In the Create a new admin users section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows how to create new users in the page.

    1. In the Email textbox, enter a valid email address of the user.

    2. In the First Name textbox, enter the first name of the user.

    3. In the Last Name textbox, enter the last name of the user.

    4. Click Create User.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

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

  • Go to The People Experience Hub Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center and you should be automatically signed in to The People Experience Hub 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 People Experience Hub 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 People Experience Hub for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next Steps

Once you configure The People Experience Hub 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.