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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with desknet's NEO

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate desknet's NEO with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate desknet's NEO with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

  • desknet's NEO supports SP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of desknet's NEO into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add desknet's NEO 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 desknet's NEO in the search box.
  4. Select desknet's NEO 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 desknet's NEO

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with desknet's NEO 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 desknet's NEO.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with desknet's NEO, 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 desknet's NEO SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create desknet's NEO test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in desknet's NEO 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 > desknet's NEO > 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, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CUSTOMER_NAME>.dn-cloud.com

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CUSTOMER_NAME>.dn-cloud.com/cgi-bin/dneo/zsaml.cgi

    c. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<CUSTOMER_NAME>.dn-cloud.com/cgi-bin/dneo/dneo.cgi

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact desknet's NEO 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, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up desknet's NEO section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on 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 desknet's NEO.

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

  1. Sign in to your desknet's NEO company site as an administrator.

  2. In the menu, click SAML authentication link settings icon.

    Screenshot for SAML authentication link settings.

  3. In the Common settings, click use from SAML Authentication Collaboration.

    Screenshot for SAML authentication use.

  4. Perform the below steps in the SAML authentication link settings section.

    Screenshot for SAML authentication link settings section.

    a. In the Access URL textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you copied previously.

    b. In the SP Entity ID textbox, paste the Identifier value, which you copied previously.

    c. Click Choose File to upload the downloaded Certificate (Base64) file into the x.509 Certificate textbox.

    d. Click change.

Create desknet's NEO test user

  1. Sign in to your desknet's NEO company site as an administrator.

  2. In the menu, click Administrator settings icon.

    Screenshot for Administrator settings.

  3. Click settings icon and select User management in the Custom settings.

    Screenshot for User management settings.

  4. Click Create user information.

    Screenshot for User information button.

  5. Fill the required fields in the below page and click creation.

    Screenshot for User creation section.

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 desknet's NEO Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to desknet's NEO Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

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

Next steps

Once you configure desknet's NEO 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.