Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Stage and Screen

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11/15/2023

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

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

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Stage and Screen, you need:

A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
Stage and Screen single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

Stage and Screen support both SP and IDP initiated SSO.
Stage and Screen support Just In Time user provisioning.

Add Stage and Screen from the gallery

To configure the integration of Stage and Screen into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Stage and Screen 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 Stage and Screen in the search box.
Select Stage and Screen 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 Stage and Screen

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Stage and Screen 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 Stage and Screen.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Stage and Screen, perform the following steps:

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.
Configure Stage and Screen SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
1. Create Stage and Screen test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Stage and Screen that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Stage and Screen > 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, the user does not have to perform any step as the app is already pre-integrated with Microsoft Entra.
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://portal.stageandscreen.travel/ssosp/spinit?clientid=<Client_ID>

Note

The Sign on URL is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact Stage and Screen support team to get the value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.
Stage and Screen application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.
In addition to above, Stage and Screen application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

Name Source Attribute

PortalID <ID>
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

Name	Source Attribute
PortalID	`<ID>`

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Microsoft Entra admin center 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:
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.
Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to Stage and Screen.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Stage and Screen.
In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
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 Stage and Screen SSO

To configure single sign-on on Stage and Screen side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to Stage and Screen support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Stage and Screen test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Stage and Screen. Stage and Screen support 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 Stage and Screen, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

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

SP initiated:

Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center. This will redirect to Stage and Screen Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Stage and Screen Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center and you should be automatically signed in to the Stage and Screen 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 Stage and Screen 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 Stage and Screen 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 Stage and Screen 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.