Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

To learn more about SaaS app integration with Microsoft Entra ID, see What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID.

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.
• Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center supports SP and IDP initiated SSO
• Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center supports Just In Time user provisioning

Adding Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center from the gallery

To configure the integration of Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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 Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center in the search box.
4. Select Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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 single sign-on for Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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 Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center, complete the following building blocks:

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 Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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 > Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center > 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.

   

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 text box, type a URL using the following pattern: <SUBDOMAIN>_sso

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.brightpattern.com/agentdesktop/sso/redirect

6. Click Set additional URLs and 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://<SUBDOMAIN>.brightpattern.com/

   Note

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

7. Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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, Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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 requirement.

   Name	Namespace
   firstName	user.givenname
   lastName	user.surname
   email	user.mail

9. 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.

   

10. On the Set up Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    

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 Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center.

3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.

   

4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.

   

5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

6. If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center SSO

To configure single sign-on on Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center. Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center 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 Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration using the Access Panel.

When you click the Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the Bright Pattern Omnichannel Contact Center for which you set up SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

Additional resources

• List of Tutorials on How to Integrate SaaS Apps with Microsoft Entra ID

• What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?

• What is Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID?