Tutorial: Azure AD SSO integration with Silverback
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Silverback with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Silverback with Azure AD, you can:
- Control in Azure AD who has access to Silverback.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Silverback 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.
- Silverback single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
- Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Azure AD. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD single sign-on in a test environment.
- Silverback supports SP initiated SSO.
Add Silverback from the gallery
To configure the integration of Silverback into Azure AD, you need to add Silverback 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 Silverback in the search box.
- Select Silverback 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 Silverback
Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Silverback 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 Silverback.
To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Silverback, perform the following steps:
- Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
- Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
- Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
- Configure Silverback SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create Silverback test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Silverback 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 Silverback 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, perform the following steps:
a. In the Identifier box, type a URL using the following pattern:
<YOURSILVERBACKURL>.comb. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<YOURSILVERBACKURL>.com/sts/authorize/loginc. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<YOURSILVERBACKURL>.com/sspNote
These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact Silverback 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, click copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

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:
- In the Name field, enter
B.Simon. - In the User name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example,
B.Simon@contoso.com. - Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
- Click Create.
- In the Name field, enter
Assign the Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Silverback.
- In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
- In the applications list, select Silverback.
- 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 Silverback SSO
In a different web browser, log in to your Silverback Server as an Administrator.
Navigate to Admin > Authentication Provider.
On the Authentication Provider Settings page, perform the following steps:

a. Click on Import from URL.
b. Paste the copied Metadata URL and click OK.
c. Confirm with OK then the values will be populated automatically.
d. Enable Show on Login Page.
e. Enable Dynamic User Creation if you want to add by Azure AD authorized users automatically (optional).
f. Create a Title for the button on the Self Service Portal.
g. Upload an Icon by clicking on Choose File.
h. Select the background color for the button.
i. Click Save.
Create Silverback test user
To enable Azure AD users to log in to Silverback, they must be provisioned into Silverback. In Silverback, provisioning is a manual task.
To provision a user account, perform the following steps:
Log in to your Silverback Server as an Administrator.
Navigate to Users and add a new device user.
On the Basic page, perform the following steps:

a. In Username text box, enter the name of user like Britta.
b. In First Name text box, enter the first name of user like Britta.
c. In Last Name text box, enter the last name of user like Simon.
d. In E-mail Address text box, enter the email of user like Brittasimon@contoso.com.
e. In the Password text box, enter your password.
f. In the Confirm Password text box, Reenter your password and confirm.
g. Click Save.
Note
If you don’t want to create each user manually Enable the Dynamic User Creation Checkbox under Admin > Authentication Provider.
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 Silverback Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Silverback Sign on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Silverback tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Silverback Sign on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.
Next steps
Once you configure Silverback 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 Cloud App Security.
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