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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Eli Onboarding

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Eli Onboarding supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Eli Onboarding 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 Eli Onboarding.

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

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<YOUR DOMAIN URL>/sso/saml/login

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<YOUR DOMAIN URL>

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact Eli Onboarding 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 Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

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

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

To configure single sign-on on Eli Onboarding side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Eli Onboarding support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Eli Onboarding test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Eli Onboarding. Work with Eli Onboarding support team to add the users in the Eli Onboarding 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 Eli Onboarding Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Eli Onboarding 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.