Tutorial: Azure AD SSO integration with Percolate
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Percolate with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Percolate with Azure AD, you can:
- Control in Azure AD who has access to Percolate.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Percolate with their Azure AD accounts.
- Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.
Prerequisites
To configure Azure AD integration with Percolate, you need to have:
- An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have an Azure AD environment, you can get a free account.
- A Percolate subscription that has single sign-on enabled.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you'll configure and test Azure AD single sign-on in a test environment.
- Percolate supports SP-initiated and IdP-initiated SSO.
Add Percolate from the gallery
To configure the integration of Percolate into Azure AD, you need to add Percolate from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.
- Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
- On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
- Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
- To add new application, select New application.
- In the Add from the gallery section, type Percolate in the search box.
- Select Percolate from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.
Configure and test Azure AD SSO for Percolate
Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Percolate using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in Percolate.
To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Percolate, perform the following steps:
- Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
- Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
- Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
- Configure Percolate SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create Percolate test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Percolate that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
- Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.
Configure Azure AD SSO
Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.
In the Azure portal, on the Percolate application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

In the Basic SAML Configuration dialog box, you don't need to take any action to configure the application in IdP-initiated mode. The app is already integrated with Azure.
If you want to configure the application in SP-initiated mode, select Set additional URLs and, in the Sign on URL box, enter https://percolate.com/app/login.
On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, select the Copy icon to copy the App Federation Metadata Url. Save this URL.

In the Set up Percolate section, copy the appropriate URLs, based on your requirements.

Create an Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.
- From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
- Select New user at the top of the screen.
- In the User properties, follow these steps:
- In the Name field, enter
B.Simon. - In the User name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example,
B.Simon@contoso.com. - Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
- Click Create.
- In the Name field, enter
Assign the Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Percolate.
- In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
- In the applications list, select Percolate.
- In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
- Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
- In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
- 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.
- In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.
Configure Percolate SSO
In a new web browser window, sign in to Percolate as an admin.
On the left side of the home page, select Settings:

In the left pane, select SSO under Organization:

In the Login URL box, paste the Login URL value that you copied from the Azure portal.
In the Entity ID box, paste the Azure AD Identifier value that you copied from the Azure portal.
In Notepad, open the base-64 encoded certificate that you downloaded from the Azure portal. Copy its content and paste it into the x509 certificates box.
In the Email attribute box, enter emailaddress.
The Identity provider metadata URL box is an optional field. If you copied an App Federation Metadata Url from the Azure portal, you can paste it into this box.
In the Should AuthNRequests be signed? list, select No.
In the Enable SSO auto-provisioning list, select No.
Select Save.
Create Percolate test user
To enable Azure AD users to sign in to Percolate, you need to add them to Percolate. You need to add them manually.
To create a user account, take these steps:
Sign in to Percolate as an admin.
In the left pane, select Users under Organization. Select New users:

On the Create users page, take the following steps.

In the Email box, enter the email address of the user. For example, brittasimon@contoso.com.
In the Full name box, enter the name of the user. For example, Brittasimon.
Select Create users.
Test SSO
In this section, you test your Azure AD single sign-on configuration with following options.
SP initiated:
Click on Test this application in Azure portal. This will redirect to Percolate Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Percolate Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
IDP initiated:
- Click on Test this application in Azure portal and you should be automatically signed in to the Percolate for which you set up the SSO.
You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Percolate tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Percolate 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 Percolate 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.