Configure Grammarly for automatic user provisioning
This article describes the steps you need to perform in both Grammarly and Microsoft Entra ID to configure automatic user provisioning. When configured, Microsoft Entra ID automatically provisions and de-provisions users and groups to Grammarly using the Microsoft Entra provisioning service. For important details on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to SaaS applications with Microsoft Entra ID.
Capabilities Supported
- Create users in Grammarly
- Remove users in Grammarly when they don't require access anymore
- Keep user attributes synchronized between Microsoft Entra ID and Grammarly
Prerequisites
The scenario outlined in this article assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:
- A Microsoft Entra tenant
- A user account in Microsoft Entra ID with permission to configure provisioning (like Application Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, or Application Owner).
- A Grammarly Business account with admin access.
Step 1: Plan your provisioning deployment
- Learn about how the provisioning service works.
- Determine who's in scope for provisioning.
- Determine what data to map between Microsoft Entra ID and Grammarly.
Step 2: Configure Grammarly to support provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID
Reach out to your Grammarly representative, or write to support@grammarly.com to request for your provisioning token.
Step 3: Add Grammarly from the Microsoft Entra application gallery
Add Grammarly from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to start managing provisioning to Grammarly. If you've previously set up Grammarly for SSO, you can use the same application. We recommend that you create a separate app when you test out the integration initially. To learn more about how to add an application from the gallery, see this quickstart.
Step 4: Define who is in scope for provisioning
The Microsoft Entra provisioning service allows you to scope who is provisioned based on assignment to the application, or based on attributes of the user or group. If you choose to scope who is provisioned to your app based on assignment, you can use the steps to assign users and groups to the application. If you choose to scope who is provisioned based solely on attributes of the user or group, you can use a scoping filter.
Start small. Test with a small set of users and groups before rolling out to everyone. When scope for provisioning is set to assigned users and groups, you can control this by assigning one or two users or groups to the app. When scope is set to all users and groups, you can specify an attribute based scoping filter.
If you need extra roles, you can update the application manifest to add new roles.
Step 5: Configure automatic user provisioning to Grammarly
This section guides you through the steps to configure the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to create, update, and disable users or groups in TestApp based on user or group assignments in Microsoft Entra ID.
Configure automatic user provisioning for Grammarly in Microsoft Entra ID
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications.
In the list of applications, select Grammarly.
Select the Provisioning tab.
Set Provisioning Mode to Automatic.
Under the Admin Credentials section, in the enter Tenant URL field enter
https://sso.grammarly.com/scim/v2, and in the Secret Token field enter the token provided by Grammarly (see Step 2 above). Select Test Connection to ensure Microsoft Entra ID can connect to Grammarly. If the connection fails, ensure your Grammarly account has Admin permissions and try again.
In the Notification Email box, enter the email address of a person or group who should receive the provisioning error notifications. Select the Send an email notification when a failure occurs check box.
Select Save.
In the Mappings section, select Synchronize Microsoft Entra users to Grammarly.
Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Microsoft Entra ID to Grammarly in the Attribute-Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in Grammarly for update operations. If you change the matching target attribute, you need to ensure that the Grammarly API supports filtering users based on that attribute. Select Save to commit any changes.
Attribute Type Supported for filtering userName String ✓ externalId String active Boolean displayName String emails[type eq "work"].value String To configure scoping filters, see the instructions provided in the Scoping filter article.
To enable the Microsoft Entra provisioning service for Grammarly, change Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.
Define the users or groups that you want to provision to Grammarly by selecting the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.
When you're ready to provision, select Save.
This operation starts the initial synchronization cycle of all users and groups defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial cycle takes longer to perform than subsequent cycles, which occur about every 40 minutes as long as the Microsoft Entra provisioning service is running.
Step 6: Monitor your deployment
Once you configure provisioning, use the following resources to monitor your deployment:
- Use the provisioning logs to determine which users are provisioned successfully or unsuccessfully
- Check the progress bar to see the status of the provisioning cycle and how close it's to completion
- If the provisioning configuration seems to be in an unhealthy state, the application goes into quarantine. Learn more about quarantine states the application provisioning quarantine status article.
Additional resources
- Managing user account provisioning for enterprise apps
- What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?