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

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

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Workshop.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Workshop 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.
• Workshop single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Workshop supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
• Workshop supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Add Workshop from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Workshop 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 Workshop.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Workshop, 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 Workshop SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Workshop test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Workshop 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 > Workshop > 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 pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, enter the values for the following fields:

   a. In the Identifier (ENTITY ID) text box, type one of the following URLs:

   Identifier
   https://app.useworkshop.com/auth/auth/saml/metadata?id=<ID>
   https://app-eu.useworkshop.com/auth/auth/saml/metadata?id=<ID>

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type one of the following URLs:

   Reply URL
   https://app.useworkshop.com/auth/auth/saml/callback?id=<ID>
   https://app-eu.useworkshop.com/auth/auth/saml/callback?id=<ID>

6. Perform the following step, if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

   In the Sign on URL text box, type one of the following URLs:

   Sign on URL
   https://app.useworkshop.com/auth/auth/saml?id=<ID>
   https://app-eu.useworkshop.com/auth/auth/saml?id=<ID>

   Note

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

7. Workshop 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.

   

8. In addition to above, Workshop 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
   first_name	user.givenname
   last_name	user.surname
   email	user.mail

9. 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.

   

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 Workshop.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Workshop.
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 Workshop SSO

1. In a different browser window log in to your Workshop as an administrator.

2. Click the profile icon at the top right corner and select Settings from the list.

3. In the Settings, go to the SSO tab and click Add SAML.

   

4. In the Idp metadata url textbox, paste the App Federation Metadata Url value which you copied previously.

   

5. Click Create Sso.

Create Workshop test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Workshop. Workshop 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 Workshop, 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, this will redirect to Workshop Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

IDP initiated:

• Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Workshop 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 Workshop 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 Workshop 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 Workshop 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.