Setting Up Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

To integrate Privileged Access Service and Microsoft Azure Active Directory, review and perform the following steps:

  1. Open a browser tab or window to a {Company} PAS and navigate to Settings > Users > Partner Management and click Add.

  2. On the main Settings tab, enter values in the following fields:

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    • Partner Name Azure.

    • Federation Type SAML 2.0.

    • Under Federation Domains, click Add, enter the domain for users and click Add again.

    You are about to pivot to the Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Do not close this window; you will return to it to finish the setup later.

  3. Open another browser and use the Microsoft Entra admin center as an administrator to set up a new enterprise application that will federate with {Company}.

    Follow the steps in Add an enterprise application on the Microsoft Learn site.

  4. Bring back up the Delinea Partner add page you still have open. In the Partner Management window, select the Outbound Metadata tab and choose Option 2: Download Service Provider Metadata. Save the file.

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  5. Edit the FederationMetadata.xml file by inserting the following line between </KeyDescriptor> and <SingleLogoutService> :

    <SingleSignOnService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location=""/>

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  6. Save the file.

  7. Go back to the Microsoft Entra admin center page, click Upload metadata file and upload the file you just downloaded and saved.

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  8. Enable SAML single sign-on for the new enterprise application you created in step 3.

    Follow the steps at Enable SAML single sign-on for an enterprise application on the Microsoft Learn site.

  9. Navigate back to the Delinea PAS tenant. Navigate to Partner Management and add the group mapping using the ObjectId as the Group Attribute Value and a Group Name of your choice:

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  10. In Delinea PAS, add the Group Name to System Administrator. Navigate to Access > Roles and choose system administrator:

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  11. Click Members and add the group name you just added:

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  12. Save the configuration.