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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Pacific Timesheet

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

  • You can control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Pacific Timesheet.
  • You can enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Pacific Timesheet (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 Pacific Timesheet, 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
  • Pacific Timesheet single sign-on enabled subscription

Scenario description

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

  • Pacific Timesheet supports IDP initiated SSO

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

To add Pacific Timesheet from the gallery, 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 > New application.

  3. In the search box, type Pacific Timesheet, select Pacific Timesheet from result panel then click Add button to add the application.

    Pacific Timesheet 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 Pacific Timesheet 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 Pacific Timesheet needs to be established.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Pacific Timesheet, 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 Pacific Timesheet 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 Pacific Timesheet test user - to have a counterpart of Britta Simon in Pacific Timesheet 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 Pacific Timesheet, 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 > Pacific Timesheet 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:

    Pacific Timesheet Domain and URLs single sign-on information

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<InstanceID>.pacifictimesheet.com/timesheet/home.do

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<InstanceID>.pacifictimesheet.com/timesheet/home.do

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Pacific Timesheet Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  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 Pacific Timesheet section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

    a. Login URL

    b. Microsoft Entra Identifier

    c. Logout URL

Configure Pacific Timesheet Single Sign-On

To configure single sign-on on Pacific Timesheet side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Pacific Timesheet 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 Pacific Timesheet.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Pacific Timesheet.

    Enterprise applications blade

  3. In the applications list, select Pacific Timesheet.

    The Pacific Timesheet link in the Applications list

  4. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.

  5. 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.

Create Pacific Timesheet test user

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

Test single sign-on

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

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

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