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

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • EZOfficeInventory supports SP initiated SSO.
  • EZOfficeInventory 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.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with EZOfficeInventory 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 EZOfficeInventory.

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

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.ezofficeinventory.com/users/sign_in

    Note

    The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact EZOfficeInventory Client support team to get the value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. EZOfficeInventory 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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  7. In addition to above, EZOfficeInventory 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
    first_name user.givenname
    last_name user.surname
    email user.mail

  8. 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

  9. On the Set up EZOfficeInventory 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 EZOfficeInventory.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your EZOfficeInventory company site as an administrator

  2. On the top-right corner of the page, click on Profile and then navigate to Settings > Add Ons.

    Screenshot that shows the "Settings" page with the "Add Ons" action selected.

  3. Scroll down up to the SAML Integration section, perform the following steps:

    EZOfficeInventory configuration

    a. Check the Enabled option.

    b. In the Identity Provider URL text box, Paste the Login URL value, which you copied previously.

    c. Open the Base64 encoded certificate in notepad, copy its content and paste it into the Identity Provider Certificate text box.

    d. In Login Button Text text box, enter the text of login button.

    e. In First Name text box, enter first_name.

    f. In Last Name text box, enter last_name.

    g. In Email text box, enter email.

    h. Select your role as per your requirement from the EZOfficeInventory Role By default option.

    i. Click Update.

Create EZOfficeInventory test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in EZOfficeInventory. EZOfficeInventory 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 EZOfficeInventory, a new one is created after authentication.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure EZOfficeInventory 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.