Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with Panopto

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

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

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

• Panopto supports SP initiated SSO.

• Panopto supports Just In Time user provisioning.

Add Panopto from the gallery

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Panopto 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 Panopto.

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

   In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<TENANT_NAME>.panopto.com

   Note

   The value is not real. Update the value with the actual Sign-On URL. Contact Panopto Client support team to get the value. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

   

7. On the Set up Panopto section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

   

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 Panopto.

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

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

2. In the toolbar on the left, click System, and then click Identity Providers.

   

3. Click Add Provider.

   

4. In the SAML provider section, perform the following steps:

   

   a. From the Provider Type list, select SAML20.

   b. In the Instance Name textbox, type a name for the instance.

   c. In the Friendly Description textbox, type a friendly description.

   d. In Bounce Page Url textbox, paste the value of Login URL.

   e. In the Issuer textbox, paste the value of Microsoft Entra Identifier.

   f. Open your base-64 encoded certificate, which you have downloaded from Azure portal, copy the content of it in to your clipboard, and then paste it to the Public Key textbox.

5. Click Save.

Create Panopto test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Panopto. Panopto 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 Panopto, 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, this will redirect to Panopto Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Panopto tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Panopto Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Panopto 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.