Managed services · Business applications team

Single sign-on for business apps with Microsoft Entra ID

How we connected business applications to Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on (SSO), so people use one account and IT controls access in one place.

Built forAn organisation on Microsoft 365 with many separate app logins

WhereIndia

Used byEmployees and IT administrators

1account for every connected app

1place to grant and remove access

MFAenforced across connected apps

People had a separate username and password for each business application, and reused passwords across them.
When someone left, IT had to remember to remove them from every app one by one.
There was no single place to enforce MFA or see who could sign in to what.

Registered the applications in Microsoft Entra ID and configured SAML and OpenID Connect single sign-on.
Mapped user attributes and groups to each app's roles, and assigned access through Entra groups.
Applied conditional access and MFA policies to the connected apps.
Tested sign-in and sign-out with pilot users, then moved everyone over and documented the setup.