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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Zoom

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

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

Prerequisites

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

Scenario description

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

To configure the integration of Zoom into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Zoom 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 Zoom in the search box.
  4. Select Zoom 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 for Zoom

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Zoom 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 Zoom.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Zoom, 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 Zoom SSO - to configure the Single Sign-On settings on application side.
    1. Create Zoom test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Zoom that is 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 > Zoom application integration page, find the Manage section and select 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, click the edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Screenshot of Edit Basic SAML Configuration.

  5. 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: <companyname>.zoom.us

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<companyname>.zoom.us/saml/SSO

    c. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<companyname>.zoom.us

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact Zoom Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot of The Certificate download link.

  7. On the Set up Zoom section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot of Copy configuration URLs.

Note

To learn how to configure Role in Microsoft Entra ID, see Configure the role claim issued in the SAML token for enterprise applications.

Note

Zoom might expect a group claim in the SAML payload. If you have created any groups, contact the Zoom Client support team with the group information so they can configure the group information on their end. You also need to provide the Object ID to Zoom Client support team so they can configure the Object ID on their end. To get the Object ID, see Configuring Zoom with Azure.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. 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.
  5. Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to Zoom.

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

  1. To automate the configuration within Zoom, you need to install My Apps Secure Sign-in browser extension by clicking Install the extension.

    Screenshot of My apps extension.

  2. After adding extension to the browser, click on Set up Zoom will direct you to the Zoom application. From there, provide the admin credentials to sign into Zoom. The browser extension will automatically configure the application for you and automate steps 3-6.

    Screenshot of Setup configuration.

  3. If you want to set up Zoom manually, in a different web browser window, sign in to your Zoom company site as an administrator.

  4. Click the Single Sign-On tab.

    Screenshot of Single sign-on tab.

  5. Click the Security Control tab, and then go to the Single Sign-On settings.

  6. In the Single Sign-On section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot of Single sign-on section.

    a. In the Sign-in page URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL..

    b. For Sign-out page URL value, in the Microsoft Entra admin center, navigate to Identity > App registrations> Endpoints.

    Screenshot of The Endpoints button.

    d. Copy the SAML-P SIGN-OUT ENDPOINT and paste it into Sign-out page URL textbox.

    Screenshot of The Copy End point button.

    e. Open your base-64 encoded certificate in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the Identity provider certificate textbox.

    f. In the Issuer textbox, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier..

    g. Select HTTP-Redirect as Binding and SHA-256 as Signature Hash Algorithm.

    h. Click Save Changes.

    Note

    For more information, visit the zoom documentation.

Create Zoom test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called B.Simon in Zoom. Zoom supports automatic user provisioning, which is by default enabled. You can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, you need to contact Zoom Client support team

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 Zoom Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Zoom Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Zoom tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Zoom Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Microsoft Entra Zoom 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.