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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Businessmap

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

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

Scenario description

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

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Businessmap 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 Businessmap.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Businessmap, 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 Businessmap SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Businessmap test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Businessmap 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 > Businessmap > 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 wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following steps:

    a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<subdomain>.kanbanize.com/

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<subdomain>.kanbanize.com/saml/acs

    c. Click Set additional URLs.

    d. In the Relay State textbox, type the value: /ctrl_login/saml_login

  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://<subdomain>.kanbanize.com

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign-on URL. Contact Businessmap Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  7. Businessmap application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes, whereas nameidentifier is mapped with user.userprincipalname. Businessmap application expects nameidentifier to be mapped with user.mail, so you need to edit the attribute mapping by clicking on Edit icon and change the attribute mapping.

    image

  8. 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.

    The Certificate download link

  9. On the Set up Businessmap 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 [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 Businessmap.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Businessmap.
  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 Businessmap SSO

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

  2. Go to top right of the page, click on Settings logo.

    Screenshot shows the Businessmap settings.

  3. On the Administration panel page from the left side of menu click Integrations and then enable Single Sign-On.

    Screenshot shows the Administration panel with Integration selected.

  4. Under Integrations section, click on CONFIGURE to open Single Sign-On Integration page.

    Screenshot shows the Businessmap Integration.

  5. On the Single Sign-On Integration page under Configurations, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Single Sign-On Integration page where you enter the values in this step.

    a. In the Idp Entity ID textbox, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier, which you copied previously.

    b. In the Idp Login Endpoint textbox, paste the value of Login URL, which you copied previously.

    c. In the Idp Logout Endpoint textbox, paste the value of Logout URL, which you copied previously.

    d. In Attribute name for Email textbox, enter this value http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress

    e. In Attribute name for First Name textbox, enter this value http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/givenname

    f. In Attribute name for Last Name textbox, enter this value http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/surname

    Note

    You can get these values by combining namespace and name values of the respective attribute from the User attributes section in Azure portal.

    g. In Notepad, open the base-64 encoded certificate that you downloaded, copy its content (without the start and end markers), and then paste it into the Idp X.509 Certificate box.

    h. Check Enable login with both SSO and Businessmap.

    i. Click Save Settings.

Create Businessmap test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in Businessmap. Businessmap 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 Businessmap, a new one is created after authentication. If you need to create a user manually, contact Businessmap Client support team.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Businessmap 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.