Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Tidemark

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

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

Scenario description

In this article, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

• Tidemark supports SP initiated SSO.

Add Tidemark from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Tidemark 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 Tidemark.

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

   a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Identifier
   https://<subdomain>.tidemark.com/saml
   https://<subdomain>.tidemark.net/saml

   b. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Sign on URL
   https://<subdomain>.tidemark.com/login
   https://<subdomain>.tidemark.net/login

   Obs!

   These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Sign on URL. Contact Tidemark 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, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

   

7. On the Set up Tidemark section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 Tidemark.

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

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

Create Tidemark test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Tidemark. Work with Tidemark support team to add the users in the Tidemark platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

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

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

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

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