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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Helper Helper

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Helper Helper supports SP and IDP initiated SSO and supports Just In Time user provisioning.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Helper Helper 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 Helper Helper.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Helper Helper, 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 Helper Helper SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Helper Helper test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Helper Helper 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 > Helper Helper application integration page, find the Manage section and select 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, if you have Service Provider metadata file and wish to configure in IDP initiated mode perform the following steps:

    Note

    Go to the URL https://sso.helperhelper.com/saml/<customer_id> to get the Service Provider metadata file. Contact Helper Helper Client support team for <customer_id>.

    a. Click Upload metadata file.

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

    c. After 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 do not get auto poplulated, then fill in the values manually according to your requirement.

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

    In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://sso.helperhelper.com/saml/<customer_id>/login

    Note

    The Sign-on URL value is not real. Update this value with the actual Sign-on URL. Contact Helper Helper Client support team to get this value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.l.

  7. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click copy button to copy App Federation Metadata Url and save it on your Notepad.

    The Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up Helper Helper 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 Azure single sign-on by granting access to Helper Helper.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Helper Helper.
  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B. Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  6. If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Helper Helper SSO

To configure single sign-on on Helper Helper side, you need to send the App Federation Metadata Url to Helper Helper support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Helper Helper test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Helper Helper. Helper Helper 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 Helper Helper, a new one is created after authentication.

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 Helper Helper Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Helper Helper 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 Helper Helper 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 Helper Helper 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 Helper Helper for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Helper Helper 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.