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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Workfront

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

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

Prerequisites

To configure Microsoft Entra integration with Workfront, you need the following items:

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

Scenario description

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

  • Workfront supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Workfront 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 Workfront.

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

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<companyname>.attask-ondemand.com

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<companyname>.attasksandbox.com/SAML2

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact Workfront Client support team to get these values. 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, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Workfront 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 Workfront.

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

  1. Sign-on to your Workfront company site as administrator.

  2. Go to Single Sign On Configuration.

  3. On the Single Sign-On dialog, perform the following steps

    Configure Single Sign-On

    a. As Type, select SAML 2.0.

    b. Select Service Provider ID.

    c. Paste the Login URL into the Login Portal URL textbox.

    d. Paste Logout URL into the Sign-Out URL textbox.

    e. Paste Change Password URL into the Change Password URL textbox.

    f. Click Save.

Create Workfront test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in Workfront.

To create a user called Britta Simon in Workfront, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign on to your Workfront company site as administrator.

  2. In the menu on the top, click People.

  3. Click New Person.

  4. On the New Person dialog, perform the following steps:

    Create a Workfront test user

    a. In the First Name textbox, type "Britta."

    b. In the Last Name textbox, type "Simon."

    c. In the Email Address textbox, type Britta Simon's email address in Microsoft Entra ID.

    d. Click Add Person.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Workfront 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.