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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Tradeshift

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Tradeshift supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Tradeshift 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 Tradeshift.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Tradeshift, 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 Tradeshift SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Tradeshift test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Tradeshift 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 > Tradeshift > 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, the user does not have to perform any steps as the app is already pre-integrated with Azure.

  6. Click Set additional URLs and perform the following steps if you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode:

    a. In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://go.tradeshift.com

    b. In the Relay State text box, type the URL: https://go.tradeshift.com

  7. Click Save.

  8. Tradeshift 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.

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  9. In addition to above, Tradeshift 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 Source Attribute
    urn:oid:2.5.4.42 user.givenname
    urn:oid:2.5.4.4 user.surname
    urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1 user.userprincipalname
    urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3 user.mail

  10. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Federation Metadata XML and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  11. On the Set up Tradeshift section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on 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 Tradeshift.

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

To configure single sign-on on Tradeshift side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Tradeshift support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Tradeshift test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Tradeshift. Work with Tradeshift support team to add the users in the Tradeshift 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.

SP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Tradeshift Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Tradeshift 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 Tradeshift 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 Tradeshift 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 Tradeshift 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.