Tutorial: Configure SpaceIQ for automatic user provisioning

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07/14/2021
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The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate the steps to be performed in SpaceIQ and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to configure Azure AD to automatically provision and de-provision users and/or groups to SpaceIQ.

Note

This tutorial describes a connector built on top of the Azure AD User Provisioning Service. For important details on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to SaaS applications with Azure Active Directory.

This connector is currently in Public Preview. For more information on the general Microsoft Azure terms of use for Preview features, see Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews.

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this tutorial assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

An Azure AD tenant
A SpaceIQ tenant
A user account in SpaceIQ with Admin permissions.

Assigning users to SpaceIQ

Azure Active Directory uses a concept called assignments to determine which users should receive access to selected apps. In the context of automatic user provisioning, only the users and/or groups that have been assigned to an application in Azure AD are synchronized.

Before configuring and enabling automatic user provisioning, you should decide which users and/or groups in Azure AD need access to SpaceIQ. Once decided, you can assign these users and/or groups to SpaceIQ by following the instructions here:

Assign a user or group to an enterprise app

Important tips for assigning users to SpaceIQ

It is recommended that a single Azure AD user is assigned to SpaceIQ to test the automatic user provisioning configuration. Additional users and/or groups may be assigned later.
When assigning a user to SpaceIQ, you must select any valid application-specific role (if available) in the assignment dialog. Users with the Default Access role are excluded from provisioning.

Set up SpaceIQ for provisioning

Sign in to your SpaceIQ Admin Console. Navigate to Settings by selecting it from the drop down menu on the top right corner of the screen.
From the Settings page Select Third Party Integrations.
Navigate to Provisioning and SSO tab. Search for the Azure tile. Click on Activate.
Copy the SCIM Bearer Token. This value will be entered in the Secret Token field in the Provisioning tab of your SpaceIQ application in the Azure portal. Click Activate

Add SpaceIQ from the gallery

Before configuring SpaceIQ for automatic user provisioning with Azure AD, you need to add SpaceIQ from the Azure AD application gallery to your list of managed SaaS applications.

To add SpaceIQ from the Azure AD application gallery, perform the following steps:

In the Azure portal, in the left navigation panel, select Azure Active Directory.
Go to Enterprise applications, and then select All applications.
To add a new application, select the New application button at the top of the pane.
In the search box, enter SpaceIQ, select SpaceIQ in the results panel, and then click the Add button to add the application.

Configuring automatic user provisioning to SpaceIQ

This section guides you through the steps to configure the Azure AD provisioning service to create, update, and disable users and/or groups in SpaceIQ based on user and/or group assignments in Azure AD.

Tip

You may also choose to enable SAML-based single sign-on for SpaceIQ, following the instructions provided in the SpaceIQ Single sign-on tutorial. Single sign-on can be configured independently of automatic user provisioning, though these two features compliment each other

To configure automatic user provisioning for SpaceIQ in Azure AD:

Sign in to the Azure portal. Select Enterprise Applications, then select All applications.
In the applications list, select SpaceIQ.
Select the Provisioning tab.
Set the Provisioning Mode to Automatic.
Under the Admin Credentials section, input https://api.spaceiq.com/scim in Tenant URL. Input the SCIM Authentication Token value retrieved earlier in Secret Token. Click Test Connection to ensure Azure AD can connect to SpaceIQ. If the connection fails, ensure your SpaceIQ account has Admin permissions and try again.
In the Notification Email field, enter the email address of a person or group who should receive the provisioning error notifications and check the checkbox - Send an email notification when a failure occurs.
Click Save.
Under the Mappings section, select Synchronize Azure Active Directory Users to SpaceIQ.
Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Azure AD to SpaceIQ in the Attribute Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in SpaceIQ for update operations. Select the Save button to commit any changes.
To configure scoping filters, refer to the following instructions provided in the Scoping filter tutorial.
To enable the Azure AD provisioning service for SpaceIQ, change the Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.
Define the users and/or groups that you would like to provision to SpaceIQ by choosing the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.
When you are ready to provision, click Save.

This operation starts the initial synchronization of all users and/or groups defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial sync takes longer to perform than subsequent syncs, which occur approximately every 40 minutes as long as the Azure AD provisioning service is running. You can use the Synchronization Details section to monitor progress and follow links to provisioning activity report, which describes all actions performed by the Azure AD provisioning service on SpaceIQ.

For more information on how to read the Azure AD provisioning logs, see Reporting on automatic user account provisioning.

Additional resources

Next steps

Learn how to review logs and get reports on provisioning activity