Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with 15Five

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate 15Five with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate 15Five with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to 15Five.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to 15Five 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.
  • 15Five single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

To configure the integration of 15Five into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add 15Five 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 15Five in the search box.
  4. Select 15Five 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 15Five

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with 15Five 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 15Five.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with 15Five, 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 15Five SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create 15Five test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in 15Five 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 > 15Five > 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, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<COMPANY_NAME>.15five.com

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<COMPANY_NAME>.15five.com/saml2/metadata/

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact 15Five 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 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 15Five 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 15Five.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > 15Five.
  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 15Five SSO

To configure single sign-on on 15Five side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to 15Five support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create 15Five test user

To enable Microsoft Entra users to log in to 15Five, they must be provisioned into 15Five. When 15Five, provisioning is a manual task.

To configure user provisioning, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to your 15Five company site as administrator.

  2. Go to Manage Company.

    Manage Company

  3. Go to People > Add PEOPLE.

    People

  4. In the Add New Person section, perform the following steps:

    Add New Person

    a. Type the First Name, Last Name, Title, Email address of a valid Microsoft Entra account you want to provision into the related textboxes.

    b. Click Done.

    Note

    The Microsoft Entra account holder receives an email including a link to confirm the account before it becomes active.

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 15Five Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to 15Five Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the 15Five tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to 15Five Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure 15Five 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.