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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Small Improvements

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • Small Improvements supports SP initiated SSO.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Small Improvements 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 Small Improvements.

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

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<subdomain>.small-improvements.com

    b. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<subdomain>.small-improvements.com

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Sign on URL. Contact Small Improvements Client support team to get these values. 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 Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Small Improvements section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per 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 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. 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 Small Improvements.

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

  1. In another browser window, sign on to your Small Improvements company site as an administrator.

  2. From the main dashboard page, click Admin -> Integrations on the left.

    Screenshot shows the Integrations button selected.

  3. Click the SAML SSO button from Integrations section.

    Screenshot shows the SAML S S O icon selected in Integrations.

  4. On the SSO Setup page, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the S S O Setup page where you can enter the values described.

    a. Check Enable SAML for SSO.

    b. In the HTTP Endpoint textbox, paste the value of Login URL.

    c. Open your downloaded certificate in Notepad, copy the content, and then paste it into the x509 Certificate textbox.

    d. If you wish to have SSO and Login form authentication option available for users, then check the Enable access via login/password too option.

    e. Enter the appropriate value to Name the SSO Login button in the SAML Prompt textbox.

    f. Click Save.

Create Small Improvements test user

To enable Microsoft Entra users to log in to Small Improvements, they must be provisioned into Small Improvements. In the case of Small Improvements, provisioning is a manual task.

To provision a user account, perform the following steps:

  1. Sign-on to your Small Improvements company site as an administrator.

  2. From the Home page, go to the menu on the left, click Admin -> Settings.

    Screenshot shows the Settings button selected.

  3. Click the Add Users button from User Management section.

    Screenshot shows "Add Users" selected from Administration Overview.

  4. On the Add Users dialog, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Add users dialog box where you can enter the values described.

    a. Enter the first name of user like Britta.

    b. Enter the Last name of user like Simon.

    c. Enter the Email of user like brittasimon@contoso.com.

    d. You can also choose to enter the personal message in the Send notification email box. If you do not wish to send the notification, then uncheck this checkbox.

    e. Click Create Users.

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 Small Improvements Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

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

Next steps

Once you configure Small Improvements 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.