Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Fresh Relevance

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

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

Scenario description

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

• Fresh Relevance supports IDP initiated SSO.

• Fresh Relevance supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Add Fresh Relevance from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Fresh Relevance 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 Fresh Relevance.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Fresh Relevance, 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 Fresh Relevance SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Fresh Relevance test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Fresh Relevance 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 > Fresh Relevance > 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.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you have Service Provider metadata file, perform the following steps:

   a. Click Upload metadata file.

   

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

   

   c. Once 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 are not getting auto populated, then fill in the values manually according to your requirement.

   d. In the Relay State textbox, type a value using the following pattern: <ID>

6. 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 computer.

   

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 [email protected]. For example, [email protected].
   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 single sign-on by granting access to Fresh Relevance.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Fresh Relevance.
3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
   1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
   2. 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.
   3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Fresh Relevance SSO

1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your Fresh Relevance company site as an administrator.

2. Go to Settings > All Settings > Security and Privacy and click SAML/Azure AD Single Sign-On.

3. In the SAML/Single Sign-On Configuration page, Enable SAML SSO for this account checkbox and click Create new IdP Configuration button.

   

4. In the SAML IdP Configuration page, perform the following steps:

   

   

   a. Copy Entity ID value, paste this value into the Identifier (Entity ID) text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

   b. Copy Assertion Consumer Service(ACS) URL value, paste this value into the Reply URL text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

   c. Copy RelayState Value and paste this value into the Relay State text box in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

   d. Click Download SP Metadata XML and upload the metadata file in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

   e. Copy App Federation Metadata Url into Notepad and paste the content into the IdP Metadata XML textbox and click Save button.

   f. If successful, information such as the Entity ID of your IdP will be displayed in the IdP Entity ID textbox.

   g. In the Attribute Mapping section, fill the required fields manually which you copied previously.

   h. In the General Configuration section, enable Allow Just In Time(JIT)Account Creation and click Save.

   Note

   If these parameters are not correctly mapped, login/account creation will not be successful and an error will be shown. To temporarily show enhanced attribute debugging information on sign-on failure, enable Show Debugging Information checkbox.

Create Fresh Relevance test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Fresh Relevance. Fresh Relevance 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 Fresh Relevance, 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 Fresh Relevance for which you set up the SSO.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Fresh Relevance tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the Fresh Relevance 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 Fresh Relevance 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.