Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with LINE WORKS
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In this tutorial, you learn how to integrate LINE WORKS with Microsoft Entra ID.
Integrating LINE WORKS with Microsoft Entra ID provides you with the following benefits:
You can control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to LINE WORKS.
You can enable your users to be automatically signed-in to LINE WORKS (Single Sign-On) with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
You can manage your accounts in one central location.
Prerequisites
To configure Microsoft Entra integration with LINE WORKS, you need the following items:
A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra environment, you can get a free account
LINE WORKS single sign-on enabled subscription
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.
LINE WORKS supports SP initiated SSO
Note
Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.
Adding LINE WORKS from the gallery
To configure the integration of LINE WORKS into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add LINE WORKS from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.
Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with LINE WORKS 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 LINE WORKS.
To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with LINE WORKS, perform the following steps:
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > LINE WORKS > 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 edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:
a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://auth.worksmobile.com/d/login/<domain>/
b. In the Response URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://auth.worksmobile.com/acs/ <domain>
Note
These values are not real. Update these values with actual Sign-On URL and Response URL. Contact LINE WORKS support team to get the 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 Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.
On the Set up LINE WORKS 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 > LINE WORKS.
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 LINE WORKS SSO
To configure single sign-on on LINE WORKS side, please read the LINE WORKS SSO documents and configure a LINE WORKS setting.
Note
You need to convert the downloaded Certificate file from .cert to .pem
Create LINE WORKS test user
In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in LINE WORKS. Access LINE WORKS admin page and add the users in the LINE WORKS platform.
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 LINE WORKS Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to LINE WORKS Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft Access Panel. When you click the LINE WORKS tile in the Access Panel, this will redirect to LINE WORKS Sign-on URL. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.
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