Tutorial: Configure Facebook Work Accounts for automatic user provisioning

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This tutorial describes the steps you need to perform in both Facebook Work Accounts and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to configure automatic user provisioning. When configured, Azure AD automatically provisions and de-provisions users and groups to Facebook Work Accounts using the Azure AD Provisioning service. For important details on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to SaaS applications with Azure Active Directory.

Capabilities supported

• Create users in Facebook Work Accounts
• Remove users in Facebook Work Accounts when they do not require access anymore
• Keep user attributes synchronized between Azure AD and Facebook Work Accounts
• Single sign-on to Facebook Work Accounts (recommended)

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this tutorial assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• An Azure AD tenant
• A user account in Azure AD with permission to configure provisioning (for example, Application Administrator, Cloud Application administrator, Application Owner, or Global Administrator).
• An admin account in Work Accounts with the permission to change company settings and configure integrations.

Step 1. Plan your provisioning deployment

1. Learn about how the provisioning service works.
2. Determine who will be in scope for provisioning.
3. Determine what data to map between Azure AD and Facebook Work Accounts.

Step 2. Add Facebook Work Accounts from the Azure AD application gallery

Add Facebook Work Accounts from the Azure AD application gallery to start managing provisioning to Facebook Work Accounts. If you have previously setup Facebook Work Accounts for SSO, you can use the same application. However it is recommended that you create a separate app when testing out the integration initially. Learn more about adding an application from the gallery here.

Step 3. Define who will be in scope for provisioning

The Azure AD provisioning service allows you to scope who will be provisioned based on assignment to the application and or based on attributes of the user / group. If you choose to scope who will be provisioned to your app based on assignment, you can use the following steps to assign users and groups to the application. If you choose to scope who will be provisioned based solely on attributes of the user or group, you can use a scoping filter as described here.

• Start small. Test with a small set of users and groups before rolling out to everyone. When scope for provisioning is set to assigned users and groups, you can control this by assigning one or two users or groups to the app. When scope is set to all users and groups, you can specify an attribute based scoping filter.

• If you need additional roles, you can update the application manifest to add new roles.

Step 4. Configure automatic user provisioning to Facebook Work Accounts

This section guides you through the steps to configure the Azure AD provisioning service to create, update, and disable users and/or groups in TestApp based on user and/or group assignments in Azure AD.

To configure automatic user provisioning for Facebook Work Accounts in Azure AD:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal. Select Enterprise Applications, then select All applications.

   

2. In the applications list, select Facebook Work Accounts.

   

3. Select the Provisioning tab.

   

4. Set the Provisioning Mode to Automatic.

   

5. Under the Admin Credentials section, click on Authorize. You will be redirected to Facebook Work Accounts's authorization page. Input your Facebook Work Accounts username and click on the Continue button. Click Test Connection to ensure Azure AD can connect to Facebook Work Accounts. If the connection fails, ensure your Facebook Work Accounts account has Admin permissions and try again.

   

6. In the Notification Email field, enter the email address of a person or group who should receive the provisioning error notifications and select the Send an email notification when a failure occurs check box.

   

7. Select Save.

8. Under the Mappings section, select Synchronize Azure Active Directory Users to Facebook Work Accounts.

9. Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Azure AD to Facebook Work Accounts in the Attribute-Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in Facebook Work Accounts for update operations. If you choose to change the matching target attribute, you will need to ensure that the Facebook Work Accounts API supports filtering users based on that attribute. Select the Save button to commit any changes.

   Attribute	Type	Supported for filtering
   userName	String	✓
   externalId	String
   active	Boolean
   title	String
   emails[type eq "work"].value	String
   preferredLanguage	String
   name.givenName	String
   name.familyName	String
   name.formatted	String
   addresses[type eq "work"].formatted	String
   addresses[type eq "work"].streetAddress	String
   addresses[type eq "work"].locality	String
   addresses[type eq "work"].region	String
   addresses[type eq "work"].postalCode	String
   addresses[type eq "work"].country	String
   phoneNumbers[type eq "work"].value	String
   urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:employeeNumber	String
   urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:department	String

10. To configure scoping filters, refer to the following instructions provided in the Scoping filter tutorial.

11. To enable the Azure AD provisioning service for Facebook Work Accounts, change the Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.

    

12. Define the users and/or groups that you would like to provision to Facebook Work Accounts by choosing the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.

    

13. When you are ready to provision, click Save.

    

This operation starts the initial synchronization cycle of all users and groups defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial cycle takes longer to perform than subsequent cycles, which occur approximately every 40 minutes as long as the Azure AD provisioning service is running.

Step 5. Monitor your deployment

Once you've configured provisioning, use the following resources to monitor your deployment:

• Use the provisioning logs to determine which users have been provisioned successfully or unsuccessfully
• Check the progress bar to see the status of the provisioning cycle and how close it is to completion
• If the provisioning configuration seems to be in an unhealthy state, the application will go into quarantine. Learn more about quarantine states here.

More resources

• Managing user account provisioning for Enterprise Apps
• What is application access and single sign-on with Azure Active Directory?

Next steps

• Learn how to review logs and get reports on provisioning activity