Enable Outlook Single Sign-on (SSO) authentication for users

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miniOrange Outlook SSO (Single Sign-on) product provides ready integrations and a seamless SSO experience to Outlook, Office 365, Sharepoint, other microsoft apps, and all other web and SaaS applications for all your users. Single Sign-On (SSO) for Microsoft Outlook provides you secure auto-login to your apps. It allows enterprises to quickly increase security of information and resources without worrying about time for initial set up or future upgrades.
Microsoft Outlook Single Sign-on (SSO) solution by miniOrange identity platform provides an option to integrate with multiple third-party Identity Providers which supports standard protocols like SAML, OAuth, etc. IDP here means (Okta, Auth0, Ping, Onelogin, etc) or Active Directory (AD) where your existing users are managed. Once your Outlook Single sign-on (SSO) is enabled with your IDP / Directory successfully, your employees or end users will be able to authenticate and login into their Outlook account and other integrated applications with the use of existing username password. They won't need to create or manage credentials differently to operate Outlook account or any other app account. Given below is the setup guide to configure SAML SSO for your Outlook.

miniOrange identity platform and Microsoft Outlook Single Sign-On (SSO) integration to authenticate users supports the following features:

• SP (Service Provider) Initiated SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)

In this flow, the user tries to access to the Serivce Provider (Outlook) organization directly. The request is redirected to the third-party Identity Provider by miniOrange Identity platform for authenitcation. On sucessfull authentication from the third-party Identity provider, the user is given access to the application (service provider).



• IdP (Identity Provider) Initiated SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)

In this flow, the user logs in or access to the miniOrange Identity platform using his credentials. Now the user can access any of the organization's configured Service Providers (Outlook, other Microsoft apps, etc.) through the Identity Provider admin console without having to enter the credentials agian.

4. Test Outlook SSO Configuration

1. Using SP initiated login :-

1. Go to Office 365 - Microsoft Outlook Login and click on sign-in
2. You will be redirected to Microsoft Online portal. Here you have to enter the UPN of the user.(It should contain the domain that is federated with miniOrange)
3. Now you will be redirected to miniOrange IdP Sign On Page.




4. Enter your login credential and click on Login. You will be automatically logged in to your Microsoft Outlook account.




2. Using IdP initiated login :-

1. Login to your miniOrange Self Service Console as an End User and click on the Outlook (Office 365) icon on your Dashboard.
2. Once you click on Outlook or Office 365 you don't need to enter credentials again you will be redirected to Outlook or Office 365 account.

External References

1. Setup OWA and Exchange SSO, MFA
   
2. Enable Sharepoint MFA / 2FA
   
3. Enable MFA for Outlook Web access
   
4. Microsoft Outlook SSO integration with on-premises environments
   
5. Looking to Integrate SSO and 2FA for other Microsoft Applications