Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with Parkalot - Car park management

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11/10/2021
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Parkalot - Car park management with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Parkalot - Car park management with Azure AD, you can:

Control in Azure AD who has access to Parkalot - Car park management.
Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Parkalot - Car park management 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.
Parkalot - Car park management single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.

Parkalot - Car park management supports SP initiated SSO
Parkalot - Car park management supports Just In Time user provisioning

Adding Parkalot - Car park management from the gallery

To configure the integration of Parkalot - Car park management into Azure AD, you need to add Parkalot - Car park management from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
To add new application, select New application.
In the Add from the gallery section, type Parkalot - Car park management in the search box.
Select Parkalot - Car park management 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 Parkalot - Car park management

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Parkalot - Car park management 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 Parkalot - Car park management.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Parkalot - Car park management, perform the following steps:

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.
Configure Parkalot-Car park management SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
1. Create Parkalot-Car park management test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Parkalot - Car park management that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

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

In the Azure portal, on the Parkalot - Car park management application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

On the Basic SAML Configuration section, enter the values for the following fields:

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

Identifier (Entity ID)
`https://parkalot.io`
`https://<CUSTOMERNAME>.parkalot.io`

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

Reply URL
`https://<CUSTOMERNAME>.parkalot.io`
`https://parkalot-saml.firebaseapp.com/__/auth/handler`
`https://parkalot-saml.web.app/__/auth/handler`
`https://<CustomerName>.parkalot.io/__/auth/handler`

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

Sign-on URL
`https://<CUSTOMERNAME>.parkalot.io/#/login`
`https://parkalot-saml.firebaseapp.com/#/login`
`https://parkalot-saml.web.app/#/login`

Note

These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign-on URL. Contact Parkalot - Car park management Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.

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.
On the Set up Parkalot - Car park management section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

Create an Azure AD test user

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

From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
Select New user at the top of the screen.
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 Parkalot - Car park management.

In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
In the applications list, select Parkalot - Car park management.
In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
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.
In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Parkalot-Car park management SSO

In a different web browser window, sign in to your Parkalot - Car park management company site as an administrator.
Select Setup SAML and click on the Edit icon on Add New card.
Perform the below mentioned steps in the following page.

a. In the Display Name textbox, give a valid name to it.

b. In the IdP Entity ID textbox, paste the Azure AD Identifier value, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

c. In the SSO url textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

d. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) from the Azure portal into Notepad and paste the content into the Certificate textbox.

e. Click SAVE.

Create Parkalot-Car park management test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Parkalot - Car park management. Parkalot - Car park management 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 Parkalot - Car park management, a new one is created after authentication.

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 Parkalot - Car park management Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Parkalot - Car park management Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Parkalot - Car park management tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Parkalot - Car park management Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Parkalot - Car park management 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.