Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Beeline

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Beeline only supports IDP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Beeline 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 Beeline.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Beeline, 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 Beeline SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Beeline test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Beeline 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 > Beeline > 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 Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://projects.beeline.com/<ProjInstance_Name>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://azure-prj.auth.beeline.com/login/callback?connection=<ProjInstance_Namee>-SSO

    Note

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

  6. The Beeline application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format. Please work with Beeline support team first to identify the correct user identifier which will be mapped into the application. Also please take the guidance from Beeline support team about the attribute which they want to use for this mapping. You can manage the value of this attribute from the User Attributes tab of the application. The following screenshot shows an example for this. Here we have mapped the User Identifier claim with the userprincipalname attribute, which provides unique user ID, which will be sent to the Beeline application in every successful SAML response.

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  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. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Beeline.

  9. Select Properties and copy the User Access URL.

    Copy User Access URL

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 Beeline.

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

To configure single sign-on on Beeline side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and the User Access URL properties to Beeline support team. They require the metadata and User Access URL so that the SAML SSO connection is configured properly on both sides.

Create Beeline test user

In this section, you will create a user, Britta Simon, in Beeline. The Beeline application needs all users to be provisioned in the application before doing Single Sign On. So work with the Beeline support team to provision all these users into the application.

Test SSO

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

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Beeline for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Beeline tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Beeline 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 Beeline 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.