Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Parkalot - Car park management

In this article, you learn how to integrate Parkalot - Car park management with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Parkalot - Car park management with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Parkalot - Car park management.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Parkalot - Car park management with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this article assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

• A Microsoft Entra user account with an active subscription. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles:
  • Application Administrator
  • Cloud Application Administrator
  • Application Owner.

• Parkalot - Car park management single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

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

• Parkalot - Car park management supports SP initiated SSO

• Parkalot - Car park management supports Just In Time user provisioning

Adding Parkalot - Car park management from the gallery

To configure the integration of Parkalot - Car park management into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Parkalot - Car park management 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 Parkalot - Car park management in the search box.
4. Select Parkalot - Car park management 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, and walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Parkalot - Car park management

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Parkalot - Car park management 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 Parkalot - Car park management.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Parkalot - Car park management, 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 Parkalot-Car park management SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
   1. Create Parkalot-Car park management test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Parkalot - Car park management that's 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 > Parkalot - Car park management > 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, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, enter the values for the following fields:

   a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Identifier (Entity ID)
   https://parkalot.io
   https://<CUSTOMERNAME>.parkalot.io

   b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Reply URL
   https://<CUSTOMERNAME>.parkalot.io
   https://parkalot-saml.firebaseapp.com/__/auth/handler
   https://parkalot-saml.web.app/__/auth/handler
   https://<CustomerName>.parkalot.io/__/auth/handler

   c. In the Sign-on URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:

   Sign-on URL
   https://<CUSTOMERNAME>.parkalot.io/#/login
   https://parkalot-saml.firebaseapp.com/#/login
   https://parkalot-saml.web.app/#/login

   Note

   These values aren't real. Update these values with the actual Identifier, Reply URL and Sign-on URL. Contact Parkalot - Car park management 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, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

7. On the Set up Parkalot - Car park management section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

   

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account quickstart to create a test user account called B.Simon.

Configure Parkalot-Car park management SSO

1. In a different web browser window, sign in to your Parkalot - Car park management company site as an administrator.

2. Select Setup SAML and select the Edit icon on Add New card.

   

3. Perform the below mentioned steps in the following page.

   

   a. In the Display Name textbox, give a valid name to it.

   b. In the IdP Entity ID textbox, paste the Microsoft Entra Identifier value, which you copied previously.

   c. In the SSO url textbox, paste the Login URL value, which you copied previously.

   d. Open the downloaded Certificate (Base64) into Notepad and paste the content into the Certificate textbox.

   e. Select SAVE.

Create Parkalot-Car park management test user

In this section, a user called Britta Simon is created in Parkalot - Car park management. Parkalot - Car park management supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There's no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in Parkalot - Car park management, a new one is created after authentication.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

• Select Test this application, this option redirects to Parkalot - Car park management Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

• Go to Parkalot - Car park management Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

• You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you select the Parkalot - Car park management tile in the My Apps, this option redirects to Parkalot - Car park management Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

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