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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Skills Workflow

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Skills Workflow.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Skills Workflow 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.
  • Skills Workflow single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
  • Along with Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator can also add or manage applications in Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Azure built-in roles.

Scenario description

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

  • Skills Workflow supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Skills Workflow 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 Skills Workflow.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Skills Workflow, 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 Skills Workflow SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Skills Workflow test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Skills Workflow 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 > Skills Workflow > 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.

    Screenshot shows to edit Basic S A M L Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type the URL: https://auth.skillsworkflow.com/saml2

    b. In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://auth.skillsworkflow.com/saml2/acs

  6. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

  7. On the Set up Skills Workflow section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration appropriate U R L.

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 Skills Workflow.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Skills Workflow.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  6. If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Skills Workflow SSO

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

Create Skills Workflow test user

In this section, you create a user called B.Simon in Skills Workflow. Work with Skills Workflow support team to add the users in the Skills Workflow platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

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 Skills Workflow Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Skills Workflow Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Skills Workflow tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Skills Workflow Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Skills Workflow 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.