Microsoft Entra integration with MindTickle

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

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to MindTickle.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to MindTickle 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.

• MindTickle single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• MindTickle supports SP initiated SSO.

• MindTickle supports Just In Time user provisioning.

• MindTickle supports Automated user provisioning.

Add MindTickle from the gallery

To configure the integration of MindTickle into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add MindTickle 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 MindTickle in the search box.
4. Select MindTickle 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

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:

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 MindTickle SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create MindTickle test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in MindTickle 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 Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > MindTickle > 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, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

   a. Select Upload metadata file.

   

   b. Select folder logo to select the metadata file and select 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 doesn't get auto populated, then please fill in the value manually according to your requirement. The Sign-on URL value isn't real. Update the value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact MindTickle support team to get this value.

6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, select Download to download the Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

   

7. On the Set up MindTickle section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

   

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 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's 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.

• Select Test this application, this option redirects 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 select the MindTickle tile in the My Apps, this option redirects to MindTickle Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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