Tutorial: Azure Active Directory integration with Workspot Control
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Workspot Control with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Workspot Control with Azure AD, you can:
- Control in Azure AD who has access to Workspot Control.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Workspot Control with their Azure AD accounts.
- Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.
Prerequisites
To configure Azure AD integration with Workspot Control, you need the following things:
An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have an Azure AD environment, you can get a free account.
A Workspot Control single sign-on-enabled subscription.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD single sign-on in a test environment.
- Workspot Control supports SP-initiated and IDP-initiated SSO.
Add Workspot Control from the gallery
To configure the integration of Workspot Control into Azure AD, you need to add Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control in the search box.
- Select Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control
Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control.
To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Workspot Control, 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 Workspot Control SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create Workspot Control test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control 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 section, if you want to configure the application in IDP-initiated mode, follow these steps:
In the identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<<i></i>INSTANCENAME>-saml.workspot.com/saml/metadataIn the reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<<i></i>INSTANCENAME>-saml.workspot.com/saml/assertion
If you want to configure the application in SP-initiated mode, select Set additional URLs.
In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
https://<<i></i>INSTANCENAME>-saml.workspot.com/Note
These values are not real. Replace these values with the actual identifier, reply URL, and sign-on URL. Contact the Workspot Control Client support team to get these values. Or you can also refer to the patterns in the Basic SAML Configuration section of the Azure portal.
On the Set Up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, select Download to download Certificate (Base64) from the available options as per your requirements. Save it to your computer.

In the Set up Workspot Control section, copy the appropriate URLs as per 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 Workspot Control.
- In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
- In the applications list, select Workspot Control.
- 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 Workspot Control SSO
In a different web browser window, sign in to Workspot Control as a Security Administrator.
In the toolbar at the top of the page, select Setup and then SAML.

In the Security Assertion Markup Language Configuration window, follow these steps:

In the Entity ID box, paste the Azure Ad Identifier that you copied from the Azure portal.
In the Signon Service URL box, paste the Login URL that you copied from the Azure portal.
In the Logout Service URL box, paste the Logout URL that you copied from the Azure portal.
Select Update File to upload into the X.509 certificate the base-64 encoded certificate that you downloaded from the Azure portal.
Select Save.
Create Workspot Control test user
To enable Azure AD users to sign in to Workspot Control, they must be provisioned into Workspot Control. Provisioning is a manual task.
To provision a user account, follow these steps:
Sign in to Workspot Control as a Security Administrator.
In the toolbar at the top of the page, select Users and then Add User.

In the Add a New User window, follow these steps:

In First Name box, enter the first name of a user, such as Britta.
In Last Name text box, enter the last name of the user, such as Simon.
In Email box, enter the email address of the user, such as Brittasimon@contoso.com.
Select the appropriate user role from the Role drop-down list.
Select the appropriate user group from the Group drop-down list.
Select Add User.
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 Workspot Control Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.
Go to Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control 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 Workspot Control 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.