Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with MCM
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate MCM with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate MCM with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:
- Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to MCM.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to MCM with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
- Manage your accounts in one central location.
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.
- MCM single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
- Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.
In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.
- MCM supports SP initiated SSO.
To configure the integration of MCM into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add MCM from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
- Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
- In the Add from the gallery section, type MCM in the search box.
- Select MCM 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 with MCM 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 MCM.
To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MCM, perform the following steps:
- Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
- Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
- Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
- Configure MCM SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create MCM test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in MCM that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
- Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.
Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MCM > Single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:
a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://myaba.co.uk/<companyname>
b. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://myaba.co.uk/client-access/<companyname>/saml.php
Note
These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Sign on URL. Contact MCM Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.
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.
On the Set up MCM section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.
In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
- Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
- Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
- In the User properties, follow these steps:
- In the Display name field, enter
B.Simon
. - In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example,
B.Simon@contoso.com
. - Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
- Select Review + create.
- In the Display name field, enter
- Select Create.
In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to MCM.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
- Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MCM.
- In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
- Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
- In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
- 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.
- In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.
To configure single sign-on on MCM side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to MCM support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.
In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in MCM. Work with MCM support team to add the users in the MCM platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.
Note
You can use any other MCM user account creation tools or APIs provided by MCM to provision Microsoft Entra user accounts.
In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.
Click on Test this application, this will redirect to MCM Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to MCM Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the MCM tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to MCM Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.
Once you configure MCM 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 Cloud App Security.