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Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Tranxfer

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In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Tranxfer with Microsoft Entra ID. Tranxfer provides the safest and easiest to use business solution for sending and receiving files. When you integrate Tranxfer with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

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

You'll configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on for Tranxfer in a test environment. Tranxfer supports SP initiated single sign-on and Just In Time user provisioning.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Tranxfer, you need:

Add application and assign a test user

Before you begin the process of configuring single sign-on, you need to add the Tranxfer application from the Microsoft Entra gallery. You need a test user account to assign to the application and test the single sign-on configuration.

Add Tranxfer from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to configure single sign-on with Tranxfer. For more information on how to add application from the gallery, see the Quickstart: Add application from the gallery.

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account article to create a test user account called B.Simon.

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, and assign roles. The wizard also provides a link to the single sign-on configuration pane. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards..

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Complete the following steps to enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Tranxfer > 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, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Screenshot shows to edit Basic SAML Configuration.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:-

    a. In the Identifier textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.tranxfer.com

    b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.tranxfer.com/SAMLResponse

    c. In the Sign on URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<SUBDOMAIN>.tranxfer.com/saml/login

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign on URL. Contact Tranxfer Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. Tranxfer 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.

    Screenshot shows the image of attributes configuration.

  7. In addition to above, Tranxfer 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
    groups user.groups [All]

  8. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, In the SAML Signing Certificate section, select copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your computer.

    Screenshot shows the Certificate download link.

Configure Tranxfer SSO

You'll need to log in to your Tranxfer application with the company administrator account.

  1. Go to Settings -> SAML and paste App Federation Metadata Url to Metadata URL field.

  2. If you want to give specific permissions to different user groups, you can match Microsoft Entra groups to common Tranxfer permissions. To do so, fill in Microsoft Entra group ID for each permission:

    a. SEND permission to send files.

    b. RECEIVE to receive files.

    c. SEND + RECEIVE both of the above.

    d. ADMIN company administration permission but not sending nor receiving files.

    e. FULL all of the above.

    Screenshot shows Tranxfer SAML settings.

  3. If you want to give any user of your organization, the simple Send and Receive permission no matter which groups they have, enable the Empty groups with permission option.

  4. If you want only match permissions by groups but don't want to import Microsoft Entra groups to Tranxfer groups enable the Disable import groups option.

If you find any problems, please contact Tranxfer support team. The support team will assist you in configuring the single sign-on on the application.

Create Tranxfer test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Tranxfer. Tranxfer supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Tranxfer, a new one is created after authentication.

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 Tranxfer Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Tranxfer tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Tranxfer Sign-on URL. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Additional resources

Next steps

Once you configure Tranxfer 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 Cloud App Security.