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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with LawVu

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • LawVu supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • LawVu 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 LawVu into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add LawVu 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 LawVu in the search box.
  4. Select LawVu 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 LawVu

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with LawVu 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 LawVu.

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

    Screenshot of the Edit Basic SAML Configuration page.

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, if you wish to configure the application in IDP initiated mode, perform the following step:

    • In the Reply URL text box, enter a URL by using the pattern: https://api-<REGION>.lawvu.com/sso/validate/<GUID>.

    Note

    This value is not real. Update this value with the actual Reply URL. Contact LawVu Client support team to get this value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  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, enter the URL: https://go.lawvu.com

  7. LawVu 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.

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  8. In addition to above, LawVu application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.

    Name Source attribute
    uniqueId user.objectid

  9. 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.

    Screenshot of the Certificate download link.

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

    Screenshot of the 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 LawVu.

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

To configure single sign-on on LawVu side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to LawVu support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create LawVu test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in LawVu. LawVu 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 LawVu, 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:

You have two options to test by using SP initiated:

  • In the Azure portal, select Test this application. You're redirected to the LawVu Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to the LawVu Sign-on URL directly, and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

  • In the Azure portal, select Test this application. You should be automatically signed in to the LawVu 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 LawVu 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 LawVu for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure LawVu 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.