Integrate with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

Prerequisites

Before you install and configure a Microsoft Entra ID orchestrated system, you should consider the following prerequisites and tasks.

Certified Components

The Microsoft Entra ID system can be any one of the following:

Table - Certified Components

Component Type Component
System Microsoft Entra ID
System API Version
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Microsoft Graph API v1.0
  • Microsoft Authentication API version v2.0 (OAuth 2.0)

Supported Modes

Microsoft Entra ID orchestrated system supports the following modes:

  • Authoritative Source
  • Managed System

Supported Operations

The Microsoft Entra ID orchestrated system supports the following operations on Microsoft Entra ID:
  • Create user
  • Delete user
  • Reset Password
  • Assign Roles to a user
  • Revoke Roles from a user
  • Assign Licences to a user
  • Remove Licences from a user
  • Assign SecurityGroup to a user
  • Remove SecurityGroup from a user
  • Assign OfficeGroup to a user
  • Remove OfficeGroup from a user

Default Supported Attributes

The Microsoft Entra ID orchestrated system supports the following default attributes. These attributes are mapped depending on the direction of the connection, for example:
  • Data being ingested by Oracle Access Governance from Microsoft Entra ID: User.givenName will map to Identity.firstName
  • Data being provisioned into Microsoft Entra ID from Oracle Access Governance: account.lastName will map to User.surname

Table - Default Attributes - Authoritative Source

Microsoft Entra ID Entity Attribute Name On Managed System Oracle Access Governance Identity Attribute Name Oracle Access Governance Identity Attribute Display Name
User id uid Unique Id
  mailNickname name Employee user name
  userPrincipalName email Email
  givenName firstName First name
  surname lastName Last name
  displayName displayName Name
  usageLocation usageLocation Locality name
  manager managerLogin Manager
  preferredLanguage preferredLanguage Preferred language
  accountEnabled status Status

Table - Default Attributes - Managed System

Microsoft Entra ID Entity Attribute Name On Managed System Oracle Access Governance Account Attribute Name Oracle Access Governance Account Attribute Display Name
User id uid Unique Id
  userPrincipalName name User login
  givenName firstName First name
  surname lastName Last name
  displayName displayName Name
  mailNickname mailNickname Mail nick name
  usageLocation usageLocation Usage location
  city city City
  country country Country
  manager managerLogin Manager
  passwordProfile.forceChangePasswordNextSignIn forceChangePasswordNextSignIn Change password on next logon
  preferredLanguage preferredLanguage Preferred language
  userType userType Employee type
  accountEnabled status Status
  password password Password

Microsoft Enterprise Application Configuration and Settings

Before you can establish a connection, you need to perform the following tasks in your Microsoft Entra ID Admin Center for the Enterprise application:
  1. Create and register an enterprise application that you want to integrate with Oracle Access Governance. For more information, refer Microsoft documentation.
  2. Generate a client secret for the application
  3. Grant the following delegated and application permissions for the Microsoft Graph API:

    Delegated Permission

    • Directory.ReadWrite.All
    • Group.ReadWrite.All
    • GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
    • User.Read
    • User.ReadWrite

    Application Permission

    • Directory.ReadWrite.All
    • Group.ReadWrite.All
    • GroupMember.ReadWrite.All
    • User.ReadWrite.All
    • RoleManagement.ReadWrite.Directory
  4. Click the Grant Admin Consent button to provide directory-wide full permissions to perform the related API tasks for an integrated system

For more information, refer to the Microsoft documentation.

Configure

You can establish a connection between Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) and Oracle Access Governance by entering connection details. To achieve this, use the orchestrated systems functionality available in the Oracle Access Governance Console.

Navigate to the Orchestrated Systems Page

Navigate to the Orchestrated Systems page of the Oracle Access Governance Console, by following these steps:
  1. From the Oracle Access Governance navigation menu icon Navigation menu, select Service Administration → Orchestrated Systems.
  2. Click the Add an orchestrated system button to start the workflow.

Select system

On the Select system step of the workflow, you can specify which type of system you would like to onboard. You can search for the required system by name using the Search field.

  1. Select Microsoft Entra ID.
  2. Click Next.

Enter details

On the Enter Details step of the workflow, enter the details for the orchestrated system:
  1. Enter a name for the system you want to connect to in the What do you want to call this system? field.
  2. Enter a description for the system in the How do you want to describe this system? field.
  3. Determine if this orchestrated system is an authoritative source, and if Oracle Access Governance can manage permissions by setting the following checkboxes.
    • This is the authoritative source for my identities
    • I want to manage permissions for this system
    The default value in each case is Selected.
  4. Click Next.

Note:

The Microsoft Entra ID orchestrated system allows you to manage groups in Microsoft Entra ID using the I want to manage identity collections for this orchestrated system option. If selected, this checkbox allows you to manage Microsoft Entra ID groups from within Oracle Access Governance. Any changes made to Microsoft Entra ID groups will be reconciled between Oracle Access Governance and the orchestrated system. Similarly, any changes made in Microsoft Entra ID, will be reflected in Oracle Access Governance

Add Owners

You can associate resource ownership by adding primary and additional owners. This drives self-service as these owners can then manage (read, update or delete) the resources that they own. By default, the resource creator is designated as the resource owner. You can assign one primary owner and up to 20 additional owners for the resources.

Note:

When setting up the first Orchestrated System for your service instance, you can assign owners only after you enable the identities from the Manage Identities section.
To add owners:
  1. Select an Oracle Access Governance active user as the primary owner in the Who is the primary owner? field.
  2. Select one or more additional owners in the Who else owns it? list. You can add up to 20 additional owners for the resource.
You can view the Primary Owner in the list. All the owners can view and manage the resources that they own.

Account settings

On the Account settings step of the workflow, enter details of how you would like to manage accounts with Oracle Access Governance when configured as a managed system:
  1. Select where to send notification emails when an account is created. The default setting is User. You can select one, both, or none of these options. If you select no options then notifications will not be sent when an account is created.
    • User
    • User manager
  2. When an identity moves within your enterprise, for example when moving from one department to another, you may need to adjust what accounts the identity has access to. In some cases the identity will no longer require certain accounts which are not relevant to their new role in the enterprise. You can select what to do with the account when this happens. Select one of the following options:
    • Disable
    • Delete
  3. When an identity leaves your enterprise you should remove access to their accounts. You can select what to do with the account when this happens. Select one of the following options:
    • Disable
    • Delete

Note:

If you do not configure your system as a managed system then this step in the workflow will display but is not enabled. In this case you proceed directly to the Integration settings step of the workflow.

Note:

If your orchestrated system requires dynamic schema discovery, as with the Generic REST and Database Application Tables (Oracle) integrations, then only the notification email destination can be set (User, Usermanager) when creating the orchestrated system. You cannot set the disable/delete rules for movers and leavers. To do this you need to create the orchestrated system, and then update the account settings as described in Configure Orchestrated System Account Settings.

Integration Settings

On the Integration Settings step of the workflow, enter the configuration details required to allow Oracle Access Governance to connect to Microsoft Entra ID.

  1. In the Host field, enter the host name of the machine hosting your Managed System. For example, for the Microsoft Graph API, you may enter graph.microsoft.com
  2. In the Port field, enter the port number at which the system will be accessible. By default, Microsoft Entra ID uses port 443.
  3. Enter the URL of the authentication server that validates the client ID and client secret for your Managed System in the Authentication Server Url field. For example, to authenticate the application using the OAuth 2.0 API, enter in the following syntax 
    https://login.microsoftonline.com/<Primary Domain or Directory(tenant ID)>/oauth2/v2.0/token
    To know how to fetch your Primary domain or tenant ID, refer Microsoft documentation.
  4. Enter the client identifier (a unique string) issued by the authorization server to your client system during the registration process, into the Client ID field. The client ID, also known as Application ID, is obtained when registering an application in Microsoft Entra ID. This value identifies your application in the Microsoft identity platform. For more details refer to Microsoft documentation.
  5. In the Client secret field, enter the secret ID value to authenticate the identity of your system. You need to create a new client secret for your system and enter the value in this field. Only use this value when you are not using private key for authentication.

    Note:

    You must note or copy this client secret value, as you won't be able access or view it once you leave the page.
    For more details refer Microsoft documentation.
  6. Enter PEM private key into the Private key field, only when you are not using Client secret for authentication.

    For test purposes only, you can generate a self-signed certificate using the following steps:

    1. Create an encrypted private key which you will load into the Entra ID instance.
      openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout encrypted_key.pem -out cert.cer -sha256 -days 365
    2. Decrypt the private key to create a .pem (decrypted_key.pem in the example) file which you can enter as the value for the Private key when configuring Oracle Access Governance.
      openssl rsa -in encrypted_key.pem -out decrypted_key.pem
    3. Optionally, if your private key is in PKCS1 format, convert the decrypted key for PKCS8 format which is supported in Oracle Access Governance.
      openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform PEM -outform PEM -nocrypt -in decrypted_key.pem -out pkcs8.key
  7. Enter the value for the certificate fingerprint (X509) in the Certificate fingerprint, only when you are not using Client secret for authentication. .

    To obtain the certificate fingerprint use the following steps:

    1. Convert the hex value of the certificate thumbprint to binary.
      echo -n "***353DB6DF03567473E299DB5E7F4C***" | xxd -r -p > thumbprint.bin
    2. Convert the binary thumbprint to base64 which can be used in the Certificate fingerprint field.
      openssl base64 -in thumbprint.bin -out thumbprint_base64.txt
  8. Click Add to create the orchestrated system.

Finish up

Finally, you are given a choice whether to further configure your orchestrated system before running a data load, or accept the default configuration and initiate a data load. Select one from:
  • Customize before enabling the system for data loads
  • Activate and prepare the data load with the provided defaults

Post Configuration

There are no postinstall steps associated with a Microsoft Entra ID system.