Tutorial: Azure Active Directory integration with SilkRoad Life Suite
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate SilkRoad Life Suite with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate SilkRoad Life Suite with Azure AD, you can:
- Control in Azure AD who has access to SilkRoad Life Suite.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to SilkRoad Life Suite with their Azure AD accounts.
- Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.
Prerequisites
To configure Azure AD integration with SilkRoad Life Suite, you need the following items:
- An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have an Azure AD environment, you can get a free account.
- SilkRoad Life Suite single sign-on enabled subscription.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD single sign-on in a test environment.
- SilkRoad Life Suite supports SP initiated SSO.
Add SilkRoad Life Suite from the gallery
To configure the integration of SilkRoad Life Suite into Azure AD, you need to add SilkRoad Life Suite 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 SilkRoad Life Suite in the search box.
- Select SilkRoad Life Suite 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 SilkRoad Life Suite
Configure and test Azure AD SSO with SilkRoad Life Suite 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 SilkRoad Life Suite.
To configure and test Azure AD SSO with SilkRoad Life Suite, 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 SilkRoad Life Suite SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create SilkRoad Life Suite test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in SilkRoad Life Suite 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 SilkRoad Life Suite 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.

On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:
Note
You will get the Service Provider metadata file explained later in this tutorial.
a. Click Upload metadata file.

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

c. Once the metadata file is successfully uploaded, the Identifier and Reply URL values get auto populated in Basic SAML Configuration section.
Note
If the Identifier and Reply URL values are not getting auto populated, then fill in the values manually according to your requirement.
d. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you do not have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:
a. In the Identifier box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:
Identifier URL https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/SPhttps://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad.com/Authentication/SPb. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:
Reply URL https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad.com/Authentication/c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<SUBDOMAIN>.silkroad-eng.com/Authentication/Note
These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier,Reply URL and Sign-On URL. Contact SilkRoad Life Suite Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.
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.

On the Set up SilkRoad Life Suite section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

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 SilkRoad Life Suite.
- In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
- In the applications list, select SilkRoad Life Suite.
- 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 SilkRoad Life Suite SSO
Sign in to your SilkRoad company site as administrator.
Note
To obtain access to the SilkRoad Life Suite Authentication application for configuring federation with Microsoft Azure AD, please contact SilkRoad Support or your SilkRoad Services representative.
Go to Service Provider, and then click Federation Details.

Click Download Federation Metadata, and then save the metadata file on your computer. Use Downloaded Federation Metadata as a Service Provider metadata file in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.

In your SilkRoad application, click Authentication Sources.

Click Add Authentication Source.

In the Add Authentication Source section, perform the following steps:

a. Under Option 2 - Metadata File, click Browse to upload the downloaded metadata file from Azure portal.
b. Click Create Identity Provider using File Data.
In the Authentication Sources section, click Edit.

On the Edit Authentication Source dialog, perform the following steps:

a. As Enabled, select Yes.
b. In the EntityId textbox, paste the value of Azure AD Identifier which you have copied from Azure portal.
c. In the IdP Description textbox, type a description for your configuration (for example: Azure AD SSO).
d. In the Metadata File textbox, Upload the metadata file which you have downloaded from Azure portal.
e. In the IdP Name textbox, type a name that is specific to your configuration (for example: Azure SP).
f. In the Logout Service URL textbox, paste the value of Logout URL which you have copied from Azure portal.
g. In the Sign-on service URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL which you have copied from Azure portal.
h. Click Save.
Disable all other authentication sources.

Create SilkRoad Life Suite test user
In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in SilkRoad Life Suite. Work with SilkRoad Life Suite Client support team to add the users in the SilkRoad Life Suite platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.
Test SSO
In this section, you test your Azure AD single sign-on configuration with following options.
Click on Test this application in Azure portal. This will redirect to SilkRoad Life Suite Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to SilkRoad Life Suite Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the SilkRoad Life Suite tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to SilkRoad Life Suite Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.
Next steps
Once you configure SilkRoad Life Suite 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.