Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with Workteam

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Workteam with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate Workteam with Azure AD, you can:

• Control in Azure AD who has access to Workteam.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Workteam with their Azure AD accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

• An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Workteam single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.

• Workteam supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
• Workteam supports Automated user provisioning.

Add Workteam from the gallery

To configure the integration of Workteam into Azure AD, you need to add Workteam from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
2. On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
3. Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
4. To add new application, select New application.
5. In the Add from the gallery section, type Workteam in the search box.
6. Select Workteam 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 Workteam

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with Workteam 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 Workteam.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with Workteam, perform the following steps:

1. Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
   1. Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
   2. Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
2. Configure Workteam SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Workteam test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Workteam that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.

1. In the Azure portal, on the Workteam application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.

2. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

3. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

4. On the Basic SAML Configuration section the application is pre-configured in IDP initiated mode and the necessary URLs are already pre-populated with Azure. The user needs to save the configuration by clicking the Save button.

5. 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 the URL: https://app.workte.am

6. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

7. On the Set up Workteam section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create an Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.

1. From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
2. Select New user at the top of the screen.
3. In the User properties, follow these steps:
   1. In the Name field, enter B.Simon.
   2. In the User 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. Click Create.

Assign the Azure AD test user

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

1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
2. In the applications list, select Workteam.
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 Workteam SSO

1. To automate the configuration within Workteam, you need to install My Apps Secure Sign-in browser extension by clicking Install the extension.

   

2. After adding extension to the browser, click on Setup Workteam will direct you to the Workteam application. From there, provide the admin credentials to sign into Workteam. The browser extension will automatically configure the application for you and automate steps 3-6.

   

3. If you want to setup Workteam manually, open a new web browser window and sign into your Workteam company site as an administrator and perform the following steps:

4. In the top right corner click on profile logo and then click on Organization settings.

   

5. Under AUTHENTICATION section, click on Settings logo.

   

6. On the SAML Settings page, perform the following steps:

   

   a. Select SAML IdP as AD Azure.

   b. In the SAML Single Sign-On Service URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

   c. In the SAML Entity ID textbox, paste the value of Azure AD Identifier, which you have copied from the Azure portal.

   d. In Notepad, open the base-64 encoded certificate that you downloaded from the Azure portal, copy its content, and then paste it into the SAML Signing Certificate (Base64) box.

   e. Click OK.

Create Workteam test user

To enable Azure AD users to sign in to Workteam, they must be provisioned into Workteam. In Workteam, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user account, perform the following steps:

1. Sign in to Workteam as a Security Administrator.

2. On the top middle of the Organization settings page, click USERS and then click NEW USER.

   

3. On the New employee page, perform the following steps:

   

   a. In the Name text box, enter the first name of user like B.Simon.

   b. In Email text box, enter the email of user like B.Simon\@contoso.com.

   c. Click OK.

Note

Workteam also supports automatic user provisioning, you can find more details here on how to configure automatic user provisioning.

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

• Go to Workteam 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 Workteam 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 Workteam 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 Workteam 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 Workteam 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.