Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Trelica

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

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Trelica.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed in to Trelica with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location: the Azure portal.

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.
  • A Trelica subscription with single sign-on (SSO) enabled.

Scenario description

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

  • Trelica supports IDP-initiated SSO.
  • Trelica supports just-in-time user provisioning.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Trelica by using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you must establish a linked relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Trelica.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Trelica, 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 Trelica SSO to configure the single sign-on settings on the application side.
    1. Create a Trelica test user to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Trelica. This counterpart is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of the user.
  3. Test SSO to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO in the Azure portal:

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

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Trelica application integration page, go to the Manage section. 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.

    The Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, with the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration highlighted

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

    1. In the Identifier box, type the URL: https://app.trelica.com.

    2. In the Reply URL box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.trelica.com/Id/Saml2/<CUSTOM_IDENTIFIER>/Acs.

    Note

    The Reply URL value is not real. Update this value with the actual Reply URL (also known as the ACS). You can find this by logging in to Trelica and going to the SAML identity providers configuration page (Admin > Account > SAML). Click on the copy button next to the Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL to put this onto the clipboard, ready for pasting into the Reply URL text box in Microsoft Entra ID. Read the Trelica help documentation or contact the Trelica Client support team if you have questions.

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

    The SAML Signing Certificate section, with the copy button highlighted next to App Federation Metadata URL

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you 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 enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to Trelica.

  1. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications.
  2. In the applications list, select Trelica.
  3. In the app's overview page, go to the Manage section, and select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user. In the Add Assignment dialog box, select Users and groups.
  5. In the Users and groups dialog box, select B.Simon from the users list. Then choose the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  6. If you expect any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog box, select the appropriate role for the user from the list. Then choose the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
  7. In the Add Assignment dialog box, select Assign.

Configure Trelica SSO

To configure single sign-on on the Trelica side, go to the SAML identity providers configuration page (Admin > Account > SAML). Click on the New button. Enter Microsoft Entra ID as the Name and choose Metadata from url for the Metadata type. Paste the App Federation Metadata Url you took from Microsoft Entra ID into the Metadata url field in Trelica.

Read the Trelica help documentation or contact the Trelica Client support team if you have questions.

Create a Trelica test user

Trelica supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There's no action for you to take in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Trelica, 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, and you should be automatically signed in to the Trelica for which you set up the SSO.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Trelica tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Trelica for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Trelica 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.