Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for MindTickle
Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MindTickle 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 MindTickle.
To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MindTickle, perform the following steps:
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MindTickle > 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, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:
a. Click Upload metadata file.
b. Click on folder logo to select the metadata file and click Upload.
c. After the metadata file is successfully uploaded, the Identifier value gets auto populated in Basic SAML Configuration section.
In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<subdomain>.mindtickle.com
Note
If the Identifier value does not get auto populated, then please fill in the value manually according to your requirement. The Sign-on URL value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact MindTickle support team to get this value.
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 MindTickle section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.
Create a Microsoft Entra test user
In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MindTickle.
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.
Configure MindTickle SSO
To configure single sign-on on MindTickle side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to MindTickle support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.
Create MindTickle test user
In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in MindTickle. MindTickle supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in MindTickle, a new one is created after authentication.
MindTickle also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.
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 MindTickle Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to MindTickle Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the MindTickle tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to MindTickle Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.
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