Prerequisites

Microsoft Azure

You will need a valid Microsoft Azure subscription.

Roles

Required: The frevvo.TenantAdmin and frevvo.Designer groups must be specified on your Active Directory server. The group names must be spelled as shown. Upper/lower case may be a factor for Open LDAP systems. These groups are required.

• Tenant admin users must be assigned to the frevvo.TenantAdmin group.
• Designer users must be assigned to the frevvo.Designer group

Optional: There are two additional roles in frevvo - frevvo.Publisher and frevvo.ReadOnly.  These roles are optional.

• In order to give a user the frevvo.publishers role, create the  frevvo.Publisher  group in your AD and assign users to it. Refer to the Publisher Role Documentation for an explanation of this role.
  
• In order to give a user the frevvo.ReadOnly role, create the frevvo.ReadOnly group in your AD and assign users to it. Following frevvo Best Practice eliminates the need for this role.
  
  

Other than these four groups, please do not name any other Azure groups with the 'frevvo.' prefix as this can cause problems reading user details.

Configuring the Azure SAML Security Manager

Follow these steps listed below to create a frevvo tenant using the Azure SAML Security Manager:

1. Create an Application for frevvo in Azure
2. Create the frevvo metadata file
3. Create the Azure Tenant IDP metadata file
4. Create/edit the frevvo tenant
5. Log into your frevvo tenant

Step 1 - Create an Application for frevvo in Azure

frevvo assumes that customers have someone on staff that can successfully perform this step of the procedure. Information about frevvo is listed below to help you with this process.

If you are familiar with the Microsoft Azure Legacy Portal, review this Microsoft Training Guide before setting up the Azure application for frevvo.

Step 2 - Create the frevvo metadata file

Follow these steps to generate the frevvo metadata for your Azure SAML tenant. You can do this even if the tenant has not been created yet.

1. Paste this URL into your browsr:

   1. Cloud Customers: https://app.frevvo.com:443/frevvo/web/saml/metadata/alias/{t} - replace {t} with the name of your frevvo tenant - Ex; azuread

   2. On-premise customers: http://<server>:<port>/frevvo/web/saml/metadata/alias/{t} - replace <server> with the ip of your server, <port> with the port number (if applicable) and t with the name of your frevvo tenant.

2. When the metadata displays, save the page as an xml file.
   
   
   
   

3. We will need to copy the entire metadata from this file to the Azure SAML Security Manager configuration screen.
4. Metadata must be generated for each Azure SAML tenant. Each tenant will have a unique URL.

Step 3 - Create the Azure Tenant Idp metadata file

Follow these steps:

1. Browse the Federation Metadata Document URL that you copied to your notepad when creating the Azure application for frevvo. It is located on the Endpoints tab in your frevvo Azure application.

   Example of Federation Metadata Document URL from Endpoints

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/fece6b7e-fbc6-4b3a-8287-fc07c29aa2d2/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml

2. Save all the metadata returned as an xml file. We will need to copy the entire metadata from this file to the Azure SAML Security Manager configuration screen.

Step 4 - Create/edit the Azure SAML tenant

To successfully create a frevvo tenant using the Azure SAML Security manager, you will need the following:

• frevvo metadata file
• The Azure SAML tenant Idp metadata file
  
• Attribute mapping information 
  
• The Azure tenant ID, the client id and client secret key that are created as part of registering the frevvo application.

frevvo cloud customers, migrating your tenant to the Azure SAML Security Manager, will make the changes via the Edit Tenant screen. Once accessed, follow these steps beginning with step 3.

1. Log onto frevvo as the superuser (on-premise) or the tenant admin (cloud).
2. Access the Add Tenant (on-premise) or Edit Tenant (cloud) screen.
3. Select Azure SAML Security Manager from the Security Manager Class dropdown.
4. Copy the Service Provider (frevvo) metadata into the Service Provider field. You can include the xml prolog when you paste the Service Provider (frevvo) metadata.
   
   
   
   
5. Copy the metadata from the Azure tenant IDP file previously created and paste it into the Identity Provider field.
   
   
   
   

6. Enter the Federation Metadata Document URL that you copied from Endpoints in your frevvo Azure application. The URL is needed to handle Signing key rollover in Azure Active Directory. This URL is polled and refreshes the Azure IDP metadata every 3 hours. The new metadata is stored and automatically used as backup in case the URL is not accessible.
   

   Example of Federation Metadata Document URL

   https://login.microsoftonline.com/fece6b7e-fbc6-4b3a-8287-fc07c29aa2d2/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml  

7. Check the Ignore Case checkbox if you are using LDAP for authentication and you want frevvo to ignore the case stored in LDAP systems for users/roles. The field is checked by default. Refer to the Mixed or Upper case User Names topic for more information.
   

8. Enter the User Id. This should be the User property name that identifies the user. A typical value is userPrincipalName, givenname etc.
   

9. Custom attributes can be mapped by typing the attribute names in the Custom field separated by a comma.
10. Enter the following information in the API Access section.
    1. Enter the Azure tenant identifier into the tenant Id field. This can be obtained by viewing the endpoint Urls listed when you click View Endpoints in your frevvo Azure application.
    2. Enter the client id and client secret key that were created as part of registering the frevvo application into the respective fields.
       
       
11. Configure a tenant admin account. This account does not require Azure SAML authentication. This tenant admin can log directly into frevvo.
    
    1. The tenant admin id, password and email fields are required. The Change password on next login is optional. It is checked by default.
    2. When this tenant admin performs a form-based login i.e. /frevvo/web/login, the password entered on this screen is used for authentication. This is also the URL used by the API. For cloud customers the <base> is always https://app.frevvo.com.
    3. If the tenant based login url is used i.e. /frevvo/web/tn/{t}/login then the Azure SAML login is used.
    
    
    
    The forgot password function works for an Azure SAML tenant admin user. For all others, it will display the error message about not being supported for the tenant.
    
    
12. Configure the Business Calendar for your tenant. The frevvo escalation feature will use this calendar to calculate deadlines and send notifications and reminder emails.
13. Enter HTTP Auth credentials if required. Credentials for external secure web services accessed by the forms and workflows in your tenant can be specified in this section.
14. Click Submit.
    
    
    

Step 5 - Logging into a frevvo Azure SAML Tenant

1. Paste this tenant specific URL into your browser:

   1. Cloud Customers: https://app.frevvo.com:443/frevvo/web/tn/{t}/login - Replace {t} with the name of your Azure SAML tenant.

   2. On-premise Customers:http://<server>:<port>/frevvo/web/tn/{t}/login. Replace <server> and <port> with your server information and t with the name of your Azure SAML tenant.

   3. The user is redirected to the Azure login screen.
      
      
      
      

   4. If the user is authenticated, frevvo screens display depending on the level of authorization specified for the user. Designer users will see the Projects Home Page while non-designer users will be directed to their Task List. You will see this redirection when logging into a frevvo space as well.

   
   

Logged in User Display in Azure SAML frevvo tenant

If your Azure SAML userIds are in the format <username>@<domain name>, when you login to frevvo the frevvo tenant name is appended to the userId . This is as designed. You will see <username@domain name@frevvo tenant name> as the logged in user at the top of the screen. If your domain name is the same as your frevvo tenant name, it will appear as if the domain name is listed twice.

Azure SAML Tenant Built-in Admin User

Just a reminder that the tenant admin account can login directly into frevvo or use the Azure SAML login.

When you create/edit a new tenant you are prompted to set up/modify a tenant admin user id, password and email address. This tenant admin does not authenticate via your Azure SAML IDP. It only exists in frevvo. If you experience an issue with your Azure SAML configuration such that you can't login as an Azure SAML authenticated user, use the built-in admin user to login to your tenant as a tenant admin in order to fix your Azure SAML configuration issue. Only one built-in tenant admin account is supported.

Browse this URL to login as the built-in: <base_URL>/frevvo/web/admin/login. When specified, frevvo will prepend the base URL to the URLs in your Form/Document Actions. The <base_URL> is typically http(s)://<your servername>:<port>.

• You must use the admin specific URL - <base-url>/frevvo/web/admin/login - to login as the built-in.
• Non admin users can also login using the admin specific URL.

If your tenant originally used the Default Security Manager and then you changed to the Azure SAML Security Manager, this tenant admin account has already been setup. If you have forgotten the password, you can change it by :

• Browsing the admin specific URL - <base-url>/frevvo/web/admin/login. Enter the built-in userid. Click  Forgot Password? This error message displays if any other user clicks on the Forgot Password? link after browsing the admin specific URL:
  
  
  
  
• Logging in as an Azure SAML authenticated tenant admin and changing the password via Manage Users.
  
  

What if you do not remember the userid of your original tenant admin? Follow these steps:

1. Login as your authenticated Azure SAML tenant admin
2. Click Manage Users and click the edit admin icon.
   
   

Session Timeout

Session timeouts are configured in frevvo and in your Azure SAML IDP. If a user's session ends before the IDP timeout is reached, they will automatically be logged back into frevvo if they try to access it again. It is recommended that the frevvo session timeout and the IDP session timeout be configured for the same value.

Embedding Forms/Workflows in your website

Embedding forms and workflows into your website when using the Azure SAML Security Manager, will work in the following scenarios :

• The visibility of the form is set to Public.
• The visibility of the form is set to Public in Tenant and the user is already authenticated to Azure SAML

Retrieving Custom Attributes from Azure Active Directory in an Azure SAML Tenant

The Azure AD Graph API allows access to users, groups etc... in Azure AD. User entity attribute data exposed by the API for the logged in user can be pulled into fields in your form/workflow with a business rule. If the attribute that you are looking for is not already exposed, you can:

• Sync Azure AD to your in-house AD via the Microsoft provided connector
• Add an extension property

Once the custom attributes are made available, add them to the Custom section of your Azure SAML tenant.

1. Login to your Azure SAML tenant as the as the tenant admin.
2. Click the Edit Tenant link
3. Add the custom attributes to the Custom section as a comma separated list. The image shows the department and displayName attributes listed in the custom attribute section.
   
   
   
   
4. Design your form/workflow with fields to collect the information.
5. Write a business rule to populate the controls with the custom attribute information.
   
   

if (form.load) {
    FirstName.value = _data.getParameter('subject.first.name');
    LastName.value = _data.getParameter('subject.last.name');
    EMail.value = _data.getParameter('subject.email'); 
    department.value = _data.getParameter('subject.department');
    displayName.value = _data.getParameter('subject.displayName');
} 

Using the SharePoint Connector in an Azure SAML Security Manager tenant

At least one designer user that is going to be connecting forms/workflows to SharePoint with the Save to SharePoint wizard must also be a SharePoint user with the correct privileges to provide consent if your tenant is configured with the Azure SAML Security Manager .

Troubleshooting

Application Error Logging in the Azure SAML tenant

If you see an application error when logging in and an error message, "Caused by: org.opensaml.common.SAMLException: InResponseToField of the Response doesn't correspond to sent message", in the logs, your Azure secret key may have expired. See this article for steps to renew it. Then update the frevvo tenant (Step 4 above).

Logging into a Azure SAML tenant as (user@Azure SAML tenant name)

Logging into a Azure SAML tenant as (user@Azure SAML tenant name) displays an application error message.

On-premise customers using the tomcat bundle will see the following entry in the frevvo error log:

Application error processing /frevvo/web/login?null java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: null

Accessing a Space in a AzureAD tenant on a mobile device will not display a logout button.

Skew error when logging into an Azure tenant

Users logging into a frevvo Azure SAML tenant may encounter the error "Access Denied.  Authorization Required". Examination of the frevvo.log shows the following entry:

Response issue time is either too old or with date in the future, skew 60, time 2016-06-01T05:49:25.330Z

This error is typically caused by a clock synchronization issue between the SP (frevvo) and the Idp (Azure) or a genuine delay in the connection. If you get this error, you can change the value of the context parameter, com.frevvo.security.saml.response.skew, to specify the time in seconds allowed between the SAML request and response to a value greater than the default value of 60 seconds.

Follow the instructions listed in the Installation Tasks chapter to add the parameter.

Login into the frevvo Azure SAML tenant fails

If the login into your Azure SAML tenant fails and the frevvo log reports the following error, you may have to edit your Azure SAML tenant to add the metadata URL. T

org.opensaml.xml.validation.ValidationException: Signature is not trusted or invalid.

The URL is needed to handle Signing key rollover in Azure Active Directory. This URL is polled and refreshes the Azure IDP metadata every 3 hours. The new metadata is stored and used as backup in case the URL is not accessible. Refer to Step 6 above for the details.

Cannot get User Details

If you see an error like "cannot get user details" when using business rules to populate user info, please ensure that your Azure groups do not include "frevvo." in the name (other than the 4 roles mentioned above: frevvo.Designer, frevvo.TenantAdmin, frevvo.Publisher, and frevvo.ReadOnly.)

Azure SAML Errors

The table below lists errors you may encounter when configuring your tenant with the Azure SAML Security Manager. Verify the recommended values to resolve.