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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Hightail

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

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

Scenario description

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

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Hightail 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 Hightail.

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

    a. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type the URL: https://api.spaces.hightail.com/api/v1/saml/consumer

    b. In the Reply URL text box, type the URL: https://api.spaces.hightail.com/api/v1/saml/consumer

  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, type the URL: https://spaces.hightail.com/corp-login

  7. Hightail 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, Hightail 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
    FirstName user.givenname
    LastName user.surname
    Email user.mail
    UserIdentity user.mail

  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.

    The Certificate download link

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

    Copy configuration URLs

Note

Before configuring the Single Sign On at Hightail app, please add your email domain to the allowed list with Hightail team so that all the users who are using this domain can use Single Sign On functionality.

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 Hightail.

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

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

  2. Click on User icon from the top right corner of the page.

    Screenshot shows the User icon.

  3. Click View Admin Console tab.

    Screenshot shows the View Admin Console button for the User.

  4. In the menu on the top, click the SAML tab and perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the SAML tab where you can enter the Login U R L and SAML Certificate.

    a. In the Login URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL copied from Azure portal.

    b. Open your base-64 encoded certificate in notepad downloaded from Azure portal, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the SAML Certificate textbox.

    c. Click COPY to copy the SAML consumer URL for your instance and paste it in Reply URL textbox in Basic SAML Configuration section.

    d. Click Save Configurations.

Create Hightail test user

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

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Hightail Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

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

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Hightail 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 Hightail 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 Hightail for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Hightail 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.