Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Printix

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

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Printix.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Printix 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.
• Printix single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
• Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.

Note

To test the steps in this tutorial, we do not recommend using a production environment.

Scenario description

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

• Rootly supports SP initiated SSO.
• Rootly supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

Add Printix from the gallery

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

Configuring and testing Microsoft Entra SSO for Printix

In this section, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Printix based on a test user called "Britta Simon".

For single sign-on to work, Microsoft Entra ID needs to know what the counterpart user in Printix is to a user in Microsoft Entra ID. In other words, a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Printix needs to be established.

In Printix, assign the value of the user name in Microsoft Entra ID as the value of the Username to establish the link relationship.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Printix, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Configuring Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.

   1. Creating a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Britta Simon.
   2. Assigning the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable Britta Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

2. Creating a Printix test user - to have a counterpart of Britta Simon in Printix that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.

3. Testing SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configuring 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 > Printix > 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 Printix Domain and URLs section, perform the following step:

   In the Sign-on URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<subdomain>.printix.net

   Note

   The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact Printix Client support team to get the value.

6. On the Set-up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

7. Click Save button.

8. Sign on to your Printix tenant as an administrator.

9. In the menu on the top, click the icon at the upper right corner and select "Authentication".

   

10. On the Setup tab, select Enable Azure/Office 365 authentication

    

11. On the Azure tab, input federation metadata URL to the textbox of "Federation metadata document".

    Attach the metadata xml file, which you downloaded from Microsoft Entra ID to Printix support team. Then they upload the xml file and provide a federation metadata URL.

    

12. Click the "Test" button and click "OK" button if the test was successful.

    Microsoft Entra ID page will show after clicking the test button. "The test was successful" here means after entering the credentials of your Azure test account it will pop up a message "Settings tested OK".Then click the OK button.

    

13. Click the Save button on "Authentication" page.

Tip

You can now read a concise version of these instructions inside the Azure portal, while you are setting up the app! After adding this app from the Active Directory > Enterprise Applications section, simply click the Single Sign-On tab and access the embedded documentation through the Configuration section at the bottom. You can read more about the embedded documentation feature here: Microsoft Entra ID embedded documentation

Creating 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.

Assigning the Microsoft Entra test user

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

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

Creating a Printix test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in Printix. Printix supports just-in-time provisioning, which is by default enabled.

There is no action item for you in this section. A new user is created during an attempt to access Printix if it doesn't exist yet.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, you need to contact the Printix support team.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Printix 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 Cloud App Security.