Integrate Microsoft Azure AD with SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry

Note:
Your Azure Portal might look different according to your configured colour scheme. You can change your colour scheme whenever you want in the portal settings section.

Navigate to your SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry subaccount in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit in order to have your tenant and region values for the next step handy.

To download the metadata file of your SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry subaccount, open a new browser window and enter the UAA (User Account and Authentication Server) tenant URL, replacing the tenant name and the region of the subaccount accordingly:

https://<tenant_name>.authentication.<region>.hana.ondemand.com/saml/metadata

IMPORTANT: You have to replace some variables in provided URLs throughout the tutorial.

The tenant_name is equal to the subaccount domain, which can be found in the Overview page of the SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry subaccount.

The correct region can be found in the API Endpoint in the same page.

Go to the Microsoft Azure Portal and navigate to Azure Active Directory and to the sub menu Enterprise applications.

Click New Application.

Search for the SAP Cloud Platform application in the gallery, enter MyAzureTutorial as the name, and save it.

After the successful creation, an overview of your application appears. Click the menu item Single-sign on (left) and select SAML.

Import the previously downloaded metadata file from the SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry subaccount via Upload metadata file.

A new view to update your Basic SAML Configuration should appear. Provide a Sign on URL and save. In this example, you are using the UAA tenant URL from Step 1.

Your UAA tenant URL has the following pattern: https://<tenant_name>.authentication.<region>.hana.ondemand.com

Before you configure user attributes and claims as part of SAML assertions, you are going to make the Groups attribute visible to the application. The Groups attribute is necessary on Cloud Foundry to match with Role Collections and, therefore, grant authorizations to users in business applications. Microsoft Azure AD does not provide the user groups claim by default.

Thus, navigate to Azure Active Directory > App registrations. Click View all applications and enter in the name of the application you created earlier, MyAzureTutorial.

Click Manifest.

Change the value of groupMembershipClaims and save. In this tutorial, you are going to use SecurityGroup (for security groups and Azure AD roles). An alternative attribute value is All (security groups, distribution groups, and Azure AD directory roles).

Go back to Azure Active Directory > Enterprise applications > MyAzureTutorial > Single Sign-on , and you will note that the Groups attribute has been added to User Attributes & Claims.

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A claim is usually a piece of information about a user, which is then provided to the connected application

Click the pencil button to adjust your name identifier value. Switch the Name identifier value to user.mail.

Then, click on each claim to open the editor mode and change the and user attributes as shown below (case sensitive).

For the Groups attribute, you will have to use the Advanced options as below:

Finally, download the Federation Metadata XML from Microsoft Azure. This file contains several assertion information and the certificate for SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry.

Access your Cloud Foundry account (as in Step 1) and go to Security > Trust Configuration. Choose New Trust Configuration and import the metadata file downloaded from Microsoft Azure.

The Link Text is the text that will be displayed in the logon page of the UAA tenant for end users.

Open a new browser window and enter the UAA tenant URL again:

https://<tenant_name>.authentication.<region>.hana.ondemand.com

You will still be able to logon with your S-Users/P-Users e-mail and password. You will see a link to Azure AD below the form. In Trust Configuration, you can enable/disable the SAP ID Service or any other IdP (MyAzureTutorial IdP Link Text) you have configured. If you disable the SAP ID Service, you will only see the links to the external Identity Providers. If there is only one Identity Provider configured, you will be automatically redirected to it.

Log on via the Microsoft Azure AD IdP (MyAzureTutorial IdP Link Text) and enter your Microsoft user.

An error message should appear:

AADSTS50105: The signed in user ‘xyz’ is not assigned to a role for the application ‘abc’(MyAzureTutorial).

Until now, you don’t have any users assigned to this enterprise application in Microsoft Azure AD. Only your Microsoft Azure AD is known as an IdP in your SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry subaccount, but so far no users are allowed to log in with it.

Go back to your overview of enterprise applications in Microsoft Azure AD and click your application. Add a new user by clicking Add user in the Users and groups submenu, as shown on the screenshot.

For this tutorial you only want to add a single user (e.g. instead of whole groups). Continue with a click on Users (so far the application has no users assigned, accordingly None Selected should appear). Search for either your name or the email address you want to continue working with.

By hitting the result tile you select the user and should appear under Selected members panel. Finish your user assignment with clicks on Select and Assign.

Check if your user assignment was successful. Open a new browser window again and enter the UAA tenant URL again:

https://<tenant_name>.authentication.<region>.hana.ondemand.com

Click the Azure link (MyAzureTutorial IdP Link Text) and log on with your Microsoft Azure user you previously assigned to the enterprise application in Microsoft Azure AD. You will be redirected back to UAA afterwards.

You should not see any particular application, because you did not access a CF application, only the UAA tenant page.

You can check the users details, including the groups mapped, by accessing the following URL:

https://<tenant_name>.authentication.<region>.hana.ondemand.com/config?action=who&details=true