Tutorial: Configure Visitly for automatic user provisioning
The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate the steps you perform in Visitly and Microsoft Entra ID to configure Microsoft Entra ID to automatically provision and deprovision users or groups to Visitly.
Note
This tutorial describes a connector built on top of the Microsoft Entra user provisioning service. For important details on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications with Microsoft Entra ID.
Prerequisites
The scenario outlined in this tutorial assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:
- A Microsoft Entra tenant
- A Visitly tenant
- A user account in Visitly with admin permissions
Assign users to Visitly
Microsoft Entra ID uses a concept called assignments to determine which users should receive access to selected apps. In the context of automatic user provisioning, only the users or groups that were assigned to an application in Microsoft Entra ID are synchronized.
Before you configure and enable automatic user provisioning, decide which users or groups in Microsoft Entra ID need access to Visitly. Then assign these users or groups to Visitly by following the instructions here:
Important tips for assigning users to Visitly
We recommend that you assign a single Microsoft Entra user to Visitly to test the automatic user provisioning configuration. More users or groups can be assigned later.
When you assign a user to Visitly, you must select any valid application-specific role (if available) in the assignment dialog box. Users with the Default Access role are excluded from provisioning.
Set up Visitly for provisioning
Before you configure Visitly for automatic user provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID, you need to enable System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) provisioning on Visitly.
Sign in to Visitly. Select Integrations > Host Synchronization.
Select the Microsoft Entra ID section.
Copy the API Key. These values are entered in the Secret Token box on the Provisioning tab of your Visitly application.
Add Visitly from the gallery
To configure Visitly for automatic user provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID, add Visitly from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to your list of managed SaaS applications.
To add Visitly from the Microsoft Entra application gallery, follow these steps.
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.Visitly**, select Visitly in the results panel, and then select Add to add the application.
Configure automatic user provisioning to Visitly
This section guides you through the steps to configure the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to create, update, and disable users or groups in Visitly based on user or group assignments in Microsoft Entra ID.
Tip
To enable SAML-based single sign-on for Visitly, follow the instructions in the Visitly single sign-on tutorial. Single sign-on can be configured independently of automatic user provisioning, although these two features complement each other.
Configure automatic user provisioning for Visitly 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 > Visitly.
Select the Provisioning tab.
Set the Provisioning Mode to Automatic.
Under the Admin Credentials section, input the
https://api.visitly.io/v1/usersync/SCIMand API Key values retrieved earlier in Tenant URL and Secret Token, respectively. Select Test Connection to ensure that Microsoft Entra ID can connect to Visitly. If the connection fails, make sure that your Visitly 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.
Under the Mappings section, select Synchronize Microsoft Entra users to Visitly.
Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Microsoft Entra ID to Visitly in the Attribute Mappings section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in Visitly for update operations. Select Save to commit any changes.
To configure scoping filters, follow the instructions in the Scoping filter tutorial.
To enable the Microsoft Entra provisioning service for Visitly, change the Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.
Define the users or groups that you want to provision to Visitly by choosing the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.
When you're ready to provision, select Save.
This operation starts the initial synchronization of all users or groups defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial sync takes longer to perform than subsequent syncs. For more information on how long it takes for users or groups to provision, see How long will it take to provision users?.
You can use the Current Status section to monitor progress and follow links to your provisioning activity report, which describes all actions performed by the Microsoft Entra provisioning service on Visitly. For more information, see Check the status of user provisioning. To read the Microsoft Entra provisioning logs, see Reporting on automatic user account provisioning.
Connector limitations
Visitly doesn't support hard deletes. Everything is soft delete only.
More resources
- Manage user account provisioning for enterprise apps
- What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?