Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Mosaic Project Operations

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

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

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Mosaic Project Operations, you need:

• A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Mosaic Project Operations single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Mosaic Project Operations supports SP initiated SSO.

Adding Mosaic Project Operations from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Mosaic Project Operations 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 Mosaic Project Operations.

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

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Mosaic Project Operations > 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 URL using one of the following patterns:

   Identifier
   https://auth.us-east-1.party.mosaicapp.com/<UUID>
   https://auth.us-east-1.<ENVIRONMENT>.mosaicapp.com/<UUID>

   b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Reply URL
   https://auth.us-east-1.party.mosaicapp.com/auth/saml/callback/<UUID>
   https://auth.us-east-1.<ENVIRONMENT>.mosaicapp.com/auth/saml/callback/<UUID>

   c. In the Sign on URL textbox, type the URL: https://login.mosaicapp.com/login

   Note

   These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Mosaic Project Operations support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Microsoft Entra admin center.

6. 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.

   

7. On the Set up Mosaic Project Operations section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Microsoft Entra admin center 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 Microsoft Entra single sign-on by granting access to Mosaic Project Operations.

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

To configure single sign-on on Mosaic Project Operations side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from Microsoft Entra admin center to Mosaic Project Operations support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides. For more information, please refer this link.

Create Mosaic Project Operations test user

In this section, you create a user called B.Simon in Mosaic Project Operations. Work with Mosaic Project Operations support team to add the users in the Mosaic Project Operations 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.

• Click on Test this application in Microsoft Entra admin center. This will redirect to Mosaic Project Operations Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next Steps

Once you configure Mosaic Project Operations 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.