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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Evernote

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Evernote 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 Evernote into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Evernote 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 Evernote in the search box.
  4. Select Evernote 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 Evernote

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Evernote 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 Evernote.

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

    In the Identifier text box, type the URL: https://www.evernote.com/saml2

  6. Click Set additional URLs and perform the following step if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://www.evernote.com/Login.action

  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.

    The Certificate download link

  8. To modify the Signing options, click the Edit button to open the SAML Signing Certificate dialog.

    Screenshot that shows the "S A M L Signing Certificate" dialog with the "Edit" button selected.

    image

    a. Select the Sign SAML response and assertion option for Signing Option.

    b. Click Save

  9. On the Set up Evernote section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on 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 Evernote.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your Evernote company site as an administrator

  2. Go to 'Admin Console'

    Admin-Console

  3. From the 'Admin Console', go to ‘Security’ and select ‘Single Sign-On’

    SSO-Setting

  4. Configure the following values:

    Certificate-Setting

    a. Enable SSO: SSO is enabled by default (Click Disable Single Sign-on to remove the SSO requirement)

    b. Paste Login URL value into the SAML HTTP Request URL textbox.

    c. Open the downloaded certificate from Microsoft Entra ID in a notepad and copy the content including "BEGIN CERTIFICATE" and "END CERTIFICATE" and paste it into the X.509 Certificate textbox.

    d.Click Save Changes

Create Evernote test user

In order to enable Microsoft Entra users to sign into Evernote, they must be provisioned into Evernote.
In the case of Evernote, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user accounts, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your Evernote company site as an administrator.

  2. Click the 'Admin Console'.

    Admin-Console

  3. From the 'Admin Console', go to ‘Add users’.

    Screenshot that shows the "Users" menu with "Add Users" selected.

  4. Add team members in the Email textbox, type the email address of user account and click Invite.

    Add-testUser

  5. After invitation is sent, the Microsoft Entra account holder will receive an email to accept the invitation.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Evernote Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Evernote 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 Evernote 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 Evernote 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 Evernote 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.