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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra integration with UNIFI

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

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

Scenario description

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

  • UNIFI supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.
  • UNIFI supports Automated user provisioning.

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

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with UNIFI 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 UNIFI.

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

    In the Identifier text box, type the URL: INVIEWlabs

  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://app.discoverunifi.com/login

  7. 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

  8. On the Set up UNIFI 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 UNIFI.

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

  1. In a different web browser window, sign on to your UNIFI company site as administrator.

  2. Click on the Users.

    Screenshot shows Users selected from the UNIFI site.

  3. Click on the Add New Identity Provider.

    Screenshot shows Ad New Identity Provider selected.

  4. In the Add Identity Provider section, perform the following steps:

    Screenshot shows the Add Identity Provider where you can enter the values described.

    a. In the Provider Name textbox, type the name of the Identity Provider..

    b. In the Provider URL textbox paste the Login URL value.

    c. Open the Certificate that you have downloaded in notepad, remove the ---BEGIN CERTIFICATE--- and ---END CERTIFICATE--- tag and then paste the remaining content in the Certificate textbox.

    d. Select the is Default Provider checkbox.

Create UNIFI test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon. UNIFI supports automatic user provisioning so no manual steps are required. Users are created automatically after successful authentication from the Microsoft Entra ID.

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 UNIFI Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to UNIFI 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 UNIFI 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 UNIFI 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 UNIFI 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 UNIFI 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.