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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Asana

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Asana.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Asana 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.
  • Asana 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 Asana into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Asana 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 Asana in the search box.
  4. Select Asana 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Asana

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Asana 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 Asana.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Asana, 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 Asana SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Asana test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Asana 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 > Asana application integration page, find the Manage section and select 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.

    Screenshot shows how to edit Basic SAML Configuration.

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

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type the URL: https://app.asana.com/

    Note

    If you require a different value to the Identifier (Entity ID) please get in touch with us.

    b. In the Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL) text box, type the URL: https://app.asana.com/-/saml/consume

    c. In the Sign on URL text box, type the URL: https://app.asana.com/a/<email_suffix>

    Note

    If you own many email domains, feel free to use any one of them.

  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.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

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

    Screenshot shows to copy configuration appropriate URL.

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 Asana.

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

  1. In a different browser window, sign on to your Asana application. To configure SSO in Asana, access the admin console by clicking on the avatar on the top right corner of the screen. Then, click on Admin Console.

    Screenshot showing Asana admin console settings.

  2. Navigate to the Security tab. Then click on SAML Authentication.

    Screenshot showing Configure Single Sign-On Organization settings.

  3. Perform the following steps in the below page:

    Screenshot showing Configure Single Sign-On SAML Authentication settings.

    a. Click on Required for all members, except guest accounts.

    b. Paste the sign-in URL that you into its sign-in page URL textbox. c. Paste the Certificate (Base64) content that you into X.509 Certificate field. d. Set the session duration for your members. e. Click Save.

Note

Go to Asana guide for setting up SSO if you need further assistance.

Create Asana test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in Asana. Asana supports automatic user provisioning, which is by default enabled. You can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

If you need to create user manually, please perform following steps:

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Asana.

  1. On Asana, go to the Teams section on the left panel. Click the plus sign button.

    Screenshot showing Creating a Microsoft Entra test user.

  2. Type the email of the user like britta.simon@contoso.com in the text box and then select Invite.

  3. Click Send Invite. The new user will receive an email into their email account. user will need to create and validate the account.

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

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Asana 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.