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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Accredible

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In this tutorial, you learn how to integrate Accredible with Microsoft Entra ID. Integrating Accredible with Microsoft Entra ID provides you with the following benefits:

  • You can control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Accredible.
  • You can enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Accredible (Single Sign-On) with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • You can manage your accounts in one central location.

If you want to know more details about SaaS app integration with Microsoft Entra ID, see What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Prerequisites

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

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra environment, you can get one-month trial here
  • Accredible single sign-on enabled subscription

Scenario description

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

  • Accredible supports IDP initiated SSO

To configure the integration of Accredible into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Accredible from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

To add Accredible from the gallery, do the following steps:

  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 Accredible, select Accredible from result panel then click Add button to add the application.

    Accredible in the results list

Configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on

In this section, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Accredible 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 Accredible needs to be established.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Accredible, you need to complete the following building blocks:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra Single Sign-On - to enable your users to use this feature.
  2. Configure Accredible Single Sign-On - to configure the Single Sign-On settings on application side.
  3. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Britta Simon.
  4. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable Britta Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  5. Create Accredible test user - to have a counterpart of Britta Simon in Accredible that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  6. Test single sign-on - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra single sign-on

In this section, you enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

To configure Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Accredible, perform the following steps:

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Accredible application integration page, select Single sign-on.

    Configure single sign-on link

  3. On the Select a Single sign-on method dialog, select SAML/WS-Fed mode to enable single sign-on.

    Single sign-on select mode

  4. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, click Edit icon to open Basic SAML Configuration dialog.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, perform the following steps:

    Accredible Domain and URLs single sign-on information

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern:

    https://api.accredible.com/sp/admin/accredible
https://api.accredible.com/sp/user/accredible

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://api.accredible.com/v1/saml/admin/<Unique id>/consume

    Note

    The Reply URL value is not real. According to the role of user, use the identifier value respectively. Each customer has a unique Reply URL depending on their ID. Contact Accredible support team to get these values.

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

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Accredible section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

    a. Login URL

    b. Microsoft Entra Identifier

    c. Logout URL

Configure Accredible Single Sign-On

To configure single sign-on on Accredible side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Accredible support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

The objective of this section is to create a test user called Britta 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 Accredible.

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

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

    Enterprise applications blade

  3. In the applications list, select Accredible.

    The Accredible link in the Applications list

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

    The "Users and groups" link

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

    The Add Assignment pane

  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 any role value in the SAML assertion then in the Select Role dialog select the appropriate role for the user from the list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

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

Create Accredible test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Accredible. You need to send the user's email id to Accredible support team, then they verify the email and send you the invite mail so that you can add user in accredible platform.

Test single sign-on

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration using the Access Panel.

When you click the Accredible tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the Accredible for which you set up SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

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