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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with StatusPage

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to StatusPage.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to StatusPage with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To configure Microsoft Entra integration with StatusPage, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra environment, you can get a free account.
  • StatusPage single sign-on enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • StatusPage supports IDP initiated SSO.

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

In this section, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with StatusPage based on a test user called Britta Simon. For single sign-on to work, a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in StatusPage needs to be established.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with StatusPage, 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 Britta Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable Britta Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure StatusPage SSO - to configure the Single Sign-On settings on application side.
    1. Create StatusPage test user - to have a counterpart of Britta Simon in StatusPage 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 > AskYourTeam > 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 Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, perform the following steps:

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

    Identifier
    https://<subdomain>.statuspagestaging.com/
    https://<subdomain>.statuspage.io/

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

    Reply URL
    https://<subdomain>.statuspagestaging.com/sso/saml/consume
    https://<subdomain>.statuspage.io/sso/saml/consume

    Note

    Contact the StatusPage support team at SupportTeam@statuspage.ioto request metadata necessary to configure single sign-on.

    a. From the metadata, copy the Issuer value, and then paste it into the Identifier textbox.

    b. From the metadata, copy the Reply URL, and then paste it into the Reply URL textbox.

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up StatusPage section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 enable Britta Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to StatusPage.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > StatusPage.

  3. In the applications list, select StatusPage.

  4. In the menu on the left, select Users and groups.

  5. Click the Add user button, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.

  6. In the Users and groups dialog select Britta Simon in the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

  7. 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.

  8. In the Add Assignment dialog click the Assign button.

Configure StatusPage SSO

  1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your StatusPage company site as an administrator

  2. In the main toolbar, click Manage Account.

    Screenshot shows Manage Account selected from the StatusPage company site.

  3. Click the Single Sign-on tab.

    Screenshot shows the Single Sign-on tab.

  4. On the SSO Setup page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the S S O Setup page where you can enter the values described.

    Screenshot shows the Save Configuration button.

    a. In the SSO Target URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL.

    b. Open your downloaded certificate in Notepad, copy the content, and then paste it into the Certificate textbox.

    c. Click SAVE CONFIGURATION.

Create StatusPage test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in StatusPage.

StatusPage supports just-in-time provisioning. You have already enabled it in Configure Microsoft Entra Single Sign-On.

To create a user called Britta Simon in StatusPage, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign-on to your StatusPage company site as an administrator.

  2. In the menu on the top, click Manage Account.

    Screenshot shows Manage Account selected from the StatusPage company site.

  3. Click the Team Members tab.

    Screenshot shows the Team Members tab.

  4. Click ADD TEAM MEMBER.

    Screenshot shows the Add Team Member button.

  5. Type the Email Address, First Name, and Surname of a valid user you want to provision into the related textboxes.

    Screenshot shows the Add a User dialog box where you can enter the values described.

  6. As Role, choose Client Administrator.

  7. Click CREATE ACCOUNT.

Test SSO

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

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the StatusPage for which you set up the SSO

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the StatusPage tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the StatusPage for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure StatusPage 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.