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Tutorial: Azure Active Directory integration with MindTickle

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate MindTickle with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate MindTickle with Azure AD, you can:

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to MindTickle.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to MindTickle with their Azure AD accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • MindTickle single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • MindTickle supports SP initiated SSO.

  • MindTickle supports Just In Time user provisioning.

  • MindTickle supports Automated user provisioning.

To configure the integration of MindTickle into Azure AD, you need to add MindTickle from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
  2. On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
  3. Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
  4. To add new application, select New application.
  5. In the Add from the gallery section, type MindTickle in the search box.
  6. Select MindTickle from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Configure and test Azure AD SSO for MindTickle

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with MindTickle using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in MindTickle.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with MindTickle, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
  2. Configure MindTickle SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create MindTickle test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in MindTickle that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.

  1. In the Azure portal, on the MindTickle application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.

  2. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  3. 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

  4. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

    a. Click Upload metadata file.

    Upload metadata file

    b. Click on folder logo to select the metadata file and click Upload.

    choose metadata file

    c. After the metadata file is successfully uploaded, the Identifier value gets auto populated in Basic SAML Configuration section.

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<subdomain>.mindtickle.com

    Note

    If the Identifier value does not get auto populated, then please fill in the value manually according to your requirement. The Sign-on URL value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact MindTickle support team to get this value.

  5. 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

  6. On the Set up MindTickle section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

Create an Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.

  1. From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
  2. Select New user at the top of the screen.
  3. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User 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. Click Create.

Assign the Azure AD test user

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

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
  2. In the applications list, select MindTickle.
  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 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.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure MindTickle SSO

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

Create MindTickle test user

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

MindTickle also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Azure AD single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application in Azure portal. This will redirect to MindTickle Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure MindTickle 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.