Configure Beeline Enterprise for Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID

In this article, you learn how to integrate Beeline Enterprise with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Beeline Enterprise with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this article assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• A Microsoft Entra user account with an active subscription. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles:
  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Application Owner.

• Beeline Enterprise single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Beeline Enterprise supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

Add Beeline Enterprise from the gallery

To configure the integration of Beeline Enterprise into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Beeline Enterprise 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 Entra ID > Enterprise apps > New application.
3. In the Browse Microsoft Entra Gallery section, type Beeline Enterprise in the search box.
4. Select Beeline Enterprise from the results panel and then select Create. 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 Beeline Enterprise

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Beeline Enterprise 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 Enterprise.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Beeline Enterprise, 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 Enterprise SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Beeline Enterprise test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Beeline that's 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 Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Beeline Enterprise > 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, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

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

   a. In the Identifier text box, type a value using the following pattern: urn:auth0:<Auth0TenantName>:<CustomerName>-SSO

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<Auth0TenantName>.<Auth0Environment>.beeline.com/login/callback?connection=<CustomerName>-SSO

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

   In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<Environment>.beeline.com/<CustomerName>/security/auth0/auth0spinitiatedssohandler.ashx

   Note

   These values aren't real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact Beeline Enterprise support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

7. Select Save.

8. The Beeline Enterprise application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format. Please work with Beeline Enterprise support team first to identify the correct user identifier which is mapped into the application. Also please take the guidance from Beeline Enterprise 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 is sent to the Beeline Enterprise application in every successful SAML response.

   

9. Browse to Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Beeline Enterprise > Manage > Single sign-on.

10. 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.

    

11. In the Set up Beeline Enterprise section, copy the Login URL and Logout URL.

    

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account quickstart to create a test user account called B.Simon.

Configure Beeline Enterprise SSO

To configure single sign-on on Beeline Enterprise side, you need to send the following items that you gathered from a step earlier in this article to the Beeline Enterprise support team. They will configure single sign-on on the Beeline Enterprise side.

• Certificate (Base64)
• Login URL
• Logout URL

Create Beeline Enterprise test user

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

Test SSO

In this section, you have two different ways to test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration.

• Browse to Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Beeline Enterprise > Manage > Single sign-on. Select Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Beeline Enterprise for which you set up the SSO.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you select the Beeline Enterprise tile in My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Beeline Enterprise site for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps portal, see Introduction to the My Apps portal.

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