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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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.
  • O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

  • O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub supports IDP initiated SSO.

Add O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub from the gallery

To configure the integration of O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub in the search box.
  4. Select O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub, 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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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 > O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub > 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, the user does not have to perform any step as the app is already pre-integrated with Azure.

  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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub.
  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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub SSO

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

Create O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub.

To create a user called Britta Simon in O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub, perform the following steps:

Ask your O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub support team to create a user that has as nameID attribute the same value as the user name of Britta Simon in Microsoft Entra ID.

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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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 O.C. Tanner - AppreciateHub 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.