Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with mindWireless

In this article, you learn how to integrate mindWireless with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate mindWireless with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to mindWireless.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to mindWireless with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

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

• A Microsoft Entra user account with an active subscription. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles:
  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Application Owner.

• mindWireless single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this article, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

• mindWireless supports IDP initiated SSO.

Add mindWireless from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with mindWireless 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 mindWireless.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with mindWireless, 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 mindWireless SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create mindWireless test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in mindWireless that's 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 > mindWireless > 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, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

5. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, perform the following steps:

   a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.mwsmart.com/

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.mwsmart.com/SAML/AssertionConsumerService.aspx

   Note

   These values aren't real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact mindWireless Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

6. mindWireless application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

   

7. In addition to above, mindWireless application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

   Name	Namespace	Source Attribute
   Employee ID	http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims	user.employeeid

   Note

   The claim name always be Employee ID and the value of which we have mapped to user.employeeid, which contains the EmployeeID of the user. Here the user mapping from Microsoft Entra ID to mindWireless is done on the EmployeeID but you can map it to a different value also based on your application settings. You can work with the mindWireless support team first to use the correct identifier of a user and map that value with the Employee ID claim.

8. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

9. On the Set up mindWireless section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account quickstart to create a test user account called B.Simon.

Configure mindWireless SSO

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

Create mindWireless test user

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

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

• Select Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the mindWireless for which you set up the SSO.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you select the mindWireless tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the mindWireless for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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