Configure Azure AD B2C using SAML 2.0

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Configure Azure AD B2C using SAML 2.0

Overview

Azure AD B2C is an Identity Access Management system that enables users to use social, enterprise or personal accounts to get SSO access to the application where is configured.

This article provides a step-by-step guide about the configuration needed, both in Azure AD and in Bizagi, to integrate your authentication in Bizagi through Azure AD B2C. Note that these steps are done only once, typically by an admin user of your Customer Portal having access to your Azure AD B2C.

 

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Once you have carried out these steps users sign in to any cloud-based service directly via your Azure AD, as described at Signing in the Bizagi Cloud Portals and Applications.

 

Before You Start

To configure Azure AD B2C supporting SAML 2.0, you need:

 

Have a resource with an Active Directory B2C.

Create a B2C Tenant inside the Azure AD B2C. To know how to create a B2C Tenant, click here.

 

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The Forgot Your Password flow is not supported.

 

Associate the SAML 2.0 protocol with the B2C.

 

Configure the necessary policies to support SAML 2.0

To do so, go to your tenant configuration and go into the Identity Experience Framework.

 

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Bear in mind that you need to be in the subscription and in the active directory where the B2C tenant was created.

 

Create the Policy Keys needed to establish trust with the services that you are going to integrate with. For this, click Policy Keys and then click Add.  

 

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Register a SAML application in Azure AD B2C. For more information about registering a SAML application in your Azure AD B2C, click here.

 

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To know more about custom policy keys, click here.

 

To have already users into the Customer Portal

When integrating any Identity Manager, you need to synchronize authorized accounts so they can access Bizagi 's cloud-based portals.

Synchronizing means importing or updating the account's primary identifiers. The Bizagi's account email must match with the attribute NameID of the SAML assertion. Usually the email is the most common parameter. See Create company users.

 

Bizagi does not store passwords when integrating an Identity Manager.

 

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You cannot have two or more users with the same email, because it is considered as part of the primary identifier.

 

Once you have verified in the Customer Portal that there has been at least an initial import of your users into Bizagi, you may proceed.

 

1. Generate certificates to sign assertions (mandatory)

The following explains how to generate the security certificate from the Customer Portal:

 

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You will need to be in charge of managing your installed certificates (keep track of its expiration date and other relevant maintenance aspects such as changes in your Identity Provider's endpoints).

 

Create Authentication Certificates

You can generate security certificates for the Authentication Protocols within the Customer Portal. This feature allows you to create and configure a new certificate or upload an existing one in the Customer Portal. To setup the Single Sing On and access the Customer Portal, sign on to your account role as a Company Administrator. This user role can this user can create users in the company user's pool, and manage users in all the company subscriptions. For additional information about Managing Customer Portal and roles refer to:

 

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Studio Cloud Services

Configure an IdP using SAML in the Customer Portal

Manage company Users

 

To create a security certificate inside the Customer Portal follow these steps:

1.Select the Settings icon located in the left panel menu.

 

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2.A panel expands from the left with all the security related topics. Select the Authentication certificates option.

 

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3.Inside this section, there is a list of certificates with details like Name, Description, Expiration date, Owner and Creation date and its creation source. In the top right corner, select the Add certificate button.

 

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4.The Add new authentication certificate window opens for you to create the new security certificate and you must fill out the five different required fields:

a.Display Name.

b.Description.

c.Either select the Generate (to create a new certificate) or Upload (to upload a existing certificate) option for the toggle button.

d.Expiration date.

e.Certificate password.

 

When opting for the Generate option, specify the Expiration date and assign a Certificate password. In the case of selecting the Upload option, it is mandatory to upload digital certificate files in either PFX or P12 format. Subsequently, choose the type of algorithm to implement—either SHA256 or SHA1. Finally, enter the password associated with the certificate.

 

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5.After all the required fields have been entered, click Save in the top right corner.

 

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After the certificate is created a message will appear in the right bottom corner indicating it has successfully been saved.

 

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To manage the generated security certificate in the Customer Portal refer to the Managing Authentication Certificates documentation.

 

 

2. Configure the Azure AD B2C

 

2.1 Log in to your Azure services with a user account with admin rights.

Access your Azure subscription with the Azure AD service.

You will need to sign into Azure's portal at https://portal.azure.com.  

 

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Make sure that you need to be in the subscription and in the active directory where the B2C tenant was created.

 

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2.2 Register the  Application

Open the Azure AD, and select the App registrations menu. Click New registration:

 

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Give a name to your application. Then, select the supported account types. Make sure that you select the tenant associated to the B2C. Finally, type your project's URL.

 

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2.3 Change the application manifest

Once your application is registered, you will be able to see it in the App registrations menu. Go to the application.

 

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Open the manifest.

 

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Change the following parameters with the values below:

 

Endpoints

identifiersURI:  It is the Bizagi 's URL used for authentication, with the following format https://accounts-<companyname>.bizagi.com

replyURL: This is the destination in the SAML response https://accounts-<companyname>.bizagi.com/saml2/assertionConsumer

signInURL: It is the Bizagi 's URL used for authentication, with the following format, https://accounts-<companyname>.bizagi.com

logoutURl: It is the Bizagi's cloud logut URL https://accounts-<companyname>.bizagi.com/saml2/logout

samlMetadataURL: You can review this metadata file by browsing it at:

https://accounts-[company].bizagi.com/saml2/metadata

 

Additional Keys

You must add the following key accessTokenAcceptedVersion and must have the value 2:

 

"accessTokenAcceptedVersion" : 2

 

2.4 Get the metadata URL

Go to the Identity Experience Framework and open the TrustFrameWorkBase file.

 

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Look for the TechnicalProfile node associated to the SAML protocol. Inside, copy the IssuerUri, which is the metadata URL associated to the SAML assertions generator.

 

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Finally, add the following suffix to the URL copied: Samlp/metadata

 

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The metadata URL must have the following format:

 

https://<B2Ctenant>.b2clogin.com/<B2Ctenant>.onmicrosoft.com/B2C_1A_signup_signin_saml/Samlp/metadata

 

where <B2Ctenant> is the name of the B2C tenant created in the Azure AD B2C.

 

3. Configure your IdP in the Customer Portal

After you configure the application in Azure AD, now you must access the Bizagi Customer Portal and register the Identity Provider. Follow the steps in Configure a SAML 2.0 IdP in the Customer Portal.

 

Now you can test your single sign-on. To test your configuration we recommend that all users log out and opening a new tab using incognito mode, or use a different browser. If the configuration with a new IdP fails, you can restore the authentication protocol.

 

Troubleshooting

In case the authenticator fails, you can review:

Troubleshooting SAML message exchanges

SAML Error codes


Last Updated 7/13/2023 3:45:20 PM