Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with YouEarnedIt

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

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

Scenario description

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

• YouEarnedIt supports SP initiated SSO.

Add YouEarnedIt from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with YouEarnedIt 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 YouEarnedIt.

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

   

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

   a. In the Identifier textbox, type a value using one of the following patterns:

   Environment	Pattern
   Production	<company name>.youearnedit.com
   Sandbox	<company name>.sandbox.youearnedit.com

   b. In the Sign-on URL textbox, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Environment	Pattern
   Production	https://<company name>.youearnedit.com/users/sign_in
   Sandbox	https://<company name>.sandbox.youearnedit.com/users/sign_in

   Note

   These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Sign on URL. Contact your assigned YouEarnedIt Customer Success manager 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 Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

   

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

   

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 YouEarnedIt.

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

To configure single sign-on on YouEarnedIt side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to your assigned YouEarnedIt Customer Success manager. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create YouEarnedIt test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in YouEarnedIt. Please work with your assigned YouEarnedIt Customer Success manager to add the users in the YouEarnedIt platform.

Note

YouEarnedIt expect the Identity Provider to supply an EmailAddress or UserName in the NameID attribute. Authentication will fail if a corresponding UserName or EmailAddress is not found within the database or does not match exactly. This will require that accounts be imported into the YouEarnedIt system before the SSO integration (Typically either via API or CSV import).

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure YouEarnedIt 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.