Tutorial: Integrate Adaptive Insights with Microsoft Entra ID

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10/23/2023

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

Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Adaptive Insights.
Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Adaptive Insights 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.
Adaptive Insights single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

Adaptive Insights supports IDP initiated SSO

Add Adaptive Insights from the gallery

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

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
In the Add from the gallery section, type Adaptive Insights in the search box.
Select Adaptive Insights 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 Adaptive Insights

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Adaptive Insights 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 Adaptive Insights.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Adaptive Insights, perform the following steps:

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.
Configure Adaptive Insights SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
1. Create Adaptive Insights test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Adaptive Insights that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Adaptive Insights application integration page, find the Manage section and select Single sign-on.
On the Select a Single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.
On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://login.adaptiveinsights.com:443/samlsso/<unique-id>

b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://login.adaptiveinsights.com:443/samlsso/<unique-id>

Note

You can get Identifier(Entity ID) and Reply URL values from the Adaptive Insights’s SAML SSO Settings page.
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.
On the Set up Adaptive Insights section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
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.
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 Adaptive Insights.

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Adaptive Insights.
In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
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 Adaptive Insights SSO

In a different web browser window, sign in to your Adaptive Insights company site as an administrator.
Go to Administration.
In the Users and Roles section, click SAML SSO Settings.
On the SAML SSO Settings page, perform the following steps:

a. In the Identity provider name textbox, type a name for your configuration.

b. Paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value into the Identity provider Entity ID textbox.

c. Paste the Login URL value into the Identity provider SSO URL textbox.

d. Paste the Logout URL value into the Custom logout URL textbox.

e. To upload your downloaded certificate, click Choose file.

f. Select the following, for:
- SAML user id, select User’s Adaptive Insights user name.
- SAML user id location, select User id in NameID of Subject.
- SAML NameID format, select Email address.
- Enable SAML, select Allow SAML SSO and direct Adaptive Insights login.
g. Copy Adaptive Insights SSO URL and paste into the Identifier(Entity ID) and Reply URL textboxes in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

h. Click Save.

Create Adaptive Insights test user

To enable Microsoft Entra users to sign in to Adaptive Insights, they must be provisioned into Adaptive Insights. In the case of Adaptive Insights, provisioning is a manual task.

To configure user provisioning, perform the following steps:

Sign in to your Adaptive Insights company site as an administrator.
Go to Administration.
In the Users and Roles section, click Users.
In the New User section, perform the following steps:

a. Type the Name, Username, Email, Password of a valid Microsoft Entra user you want to provision into the related textboxes.

b. Select a Role.

c. Click Submit.

Note

You can use any other Adaptive Insights user account creation tools or APIs provided by Adaptive Insights to provision Microsoft Entra user accounts.

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 Adaptive Insights for which you set up the SSO.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Adaptive Insights tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Adaptive Insights 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 Adaptive Insights 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.