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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

Scenario description

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

  • MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration supports SP initiated SSO.

Add MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration 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 MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration, 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 MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration 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 > MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration > 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, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

    a. Click Upload metadata file.

    Upload metadata file

    b. Click on folder logo to select the metadata file and click Upload.

    choose metadata file

    c. After the metadata file is successfully uploaded, the Identifier and Reply URL value gets auto populated in Basic SAML Configuration section.

    d. In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://contoso.com

    Note

    The Sign-on URL value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration Client support team to get the value. You can download the Service Provider Metadata file from the Service Provider Metadata URL which is explained later in the Configure MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration Single Sign-On section of the tutorial. 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 MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration 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 MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration.

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

  1. Sign on to your MOVEit Transfer tenant as an administrator.

  2. On the left navigation pane, click Settings.

    Settings Section On App side.

  3. Click Single Signon link, which is under Security Policies -> User Auth.

    Security Policies On App side.

  4. Click the Metadata URL link to download the metadata document.

    Service Provider Metadata URL.

    a. Verify entityID matches Identifier in the Basic SAML Configuration section .

    b. Verify AssertionConsumerService Location URL matches REPLY URL in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

    Screenshot of Configure Single Sign-On On App side.

  5. Click Add Identity Provider button to add a new Federated Identity Provider.

    Add Identity Provider.

  6. Click Browse... to select the metadata file which you downloaded from Azure portal, then click Add Identity Provider to upload the downloaded file.

    SAML Identity Provider.

  7. Select "Yes" as Enabled in the Edit Federated Identity Provider Settings... page and click Save.

    Federated Identity Provider Settings.

  8. In the Edit Federated Identity Provider User Settings page, perform the following actions:

    Edit Federated Identity Provider Settings.

    a. Select SAML NameID as Login name.

    b. Select Other as Full name and in the Attribute name textbox put the value: http://schemas.microsoft.com/identity/claims/displayname.

    c. Select Other as Email and in the Attribute name textbox put the value: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress.

    d. Select Yes as Auto-create account on signon.

    e. Click Save button.

Create MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration test user

The objective of this section is to create a user called Britta Simon in MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration. MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration supports just-in-time provisioning, which you have enabled. There is no action item for you in this section. A new user is created during an attempt to access MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration if it doesn't exist yet.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, you need to contact the MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration Client support team.

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 MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure MOVEit Transfer - Microsoft Entra integration 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.