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

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Arc Publishing - SSO with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Arc Publishing - SSO with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Scenario description

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

  • Arc Publishing - SSO supports SP and IDP initiated SSO
  • Arc Publishing - SSO supports Just In Time user provisioning

Adding Arc Publishing - SSO from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Arc Publishing - SSO.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Arc Publishing - SSO, 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 Arc Publishing - SSO SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Arc Publishing - SSO test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Arc Publishing - SSO 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 > Arc Publishing - SSO > 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.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  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: https://www.okta.com/saml2/service-provider/<Unique ID>

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://arcpublishing-<Customer>.okta.com/sso/saml2/<Unique ID>

  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://arcpublishing-<Customer>.okta.com/sso/saml2/<Unique ID>

    Note

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

  7. Arc Publishing - SSO 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.

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  8. In addition to above, Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Source Attribute
    firstName user.givenname
    lastName user.surname
    email user.mail
    groups user.assignedroles

    Note

    Here the groups attribute is mapped with user.assignedroles. These are custom roles created in Microsoft Entra ID to map the group names back in application. You can find more guidance here on how to create custom roles in Microsoft Entra ID.

  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.

    The Certificate download link

  10. On the Set up Arc Publishing - SSO section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

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 Arc Publishing - SSO.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Arc Publishing - SSO.
  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 have setup the roles as explained in the above, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Arc Publishing - SSO SSO

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

Create Arc Publishing - SSO test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Arc Publishing - SSO. Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Arc Publishing - SSO, a new one is created after authentication.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, contact Arc Publishing - SSO support team.

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 Arc Publishing - SSO Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Arc Publishing - SSO 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 Arc Publishing - SSO 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.