Workplace Single Sign-On SSO
miniOrange provides secure access to Workplace for enterprises and full control over access of Workplace application. Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for Workplace is a cloud based service. With this service you need only one password for all your web & SaaS apps including Workplace. miniOrange provides secure access and full control to Workplace for enterprises and applications. With the help of the given guide you can configure Workplace easily.
miniOrange and Workplace Single Sign-On (SSO) integration supports the following features:
- SP Initiated Single Sign-On (SSO)
- IdP Initiated Single Sign-On (SSO)
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Shibboleth, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more.
Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Workplace Single Sign-On (SSO)
1. Configure workplace in miniOrange
- Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.

- In Choose Application Type click on Create App button in SAML/WS-FED application type.

- Search for workplace in the list, if you don't find workplace in the list then, search for custom and you can set up your application via Custom SAML App.

- Enter the following values in the respective fields.
SP Entity ID or Issuer:
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https://www.facebook.com/company/[your-company-id] |
ACS URL:
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[https://your-company-name].facebook.com/work/saml.php |
Name ID:
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E-mail Address |
- It is not compulsory to insert any URL in Single Logout URL section.
- Click on Advanced Settings. Relay State section could be kept empty.

- Leave the Attributes section empty.
- Add a new policy for the workplace.
- Select the workplace from Application dropdown.
- Select a Group Name from the dropdown - the group for which you want to add workplace policy.
- Give a policy name for the workplace in the Policy Name field.
- Select the First Factor Type for authentication.
- Enable Second Factor for authentication if required.
- Click on Save button to add policy for workplace Single Sign On (SSO).
- Click on Save to configure workplace.
- Click on Metadata link to download the metadata which will be required later. Click on Link to see the IDP initiated SSO link for Workplace.

- Keep SAML Login URL and IdP Entity ID or Issuer and click on the Download Certificate which you will require in Step 2.

- Now click on Onboard users into our system from View Policy Tab.
2. Configure SSO for your domain in the workplace
- In the Company Dashboard, go to the Authentication tab.
- Under SAML Authentication, select SSO Only from the drop-down list.
- Input the values of miniorange IdP into the corresponding fields as given below:
Attribute | Description |
SAML URL | Enter SAML URL value that you got from Step 1. |
SAML Issuer URL | Enter SAML Issuer URL value that you got from Step 1. |
SAML Certificate | You may need to open up the downloaded certificate in a text editor in order to copy/paste this into the field |
- Depending on miniorange IdP, you may need to enter the Audience URL:(not compulsory), Recipient URL:(not compulsory) and ACS (Assertion Consumer Service) URL listed under the SAML Configuration section in the workplace.
- Scroll to the bottom of the section and click the Test SSO button. This will result in a pop-up window appearing with miniOrange IdP login page presented. Enter your credentials in as normal to authenticate.
Troubleshooting: Ensure the email address being returned back from miniorange IdP is the same as the Workplace account you are logged in with.
- Once the test has been completed successfully, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Save button.
- All users using workplace will now be presented with miniOrange IdP login page for authentication.
3. Test SSO Configuration
Test SSO login to your workplace account with miniOrange IdP:
4. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
- Click on User Stores >> Add User Store in the left menu of the dashboard.

- Select User Store type as AD/LDAP.

- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway in your premise.

- Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
- Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
- Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
- Click on Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.

- In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for Distinguished Name attribute.

- Enter the valid Bind account Password.
- Click on Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.

- Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.

- Select a suitable Search filter from the drop down menu. To use custom Search Filter select "Custom Search Filter" option and customize it accordingly.

- You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save button to add user store.

Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.
Attribute |
Description |
Activate LDAP |
All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it |
Sync users in miniOrange |
Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP |
Backup Authentication |
If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange |
Allow users to change password |
This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server |
Enable administrator login |
On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server |
Show IdP to users |
If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users |
Send Configured Attributes |
If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login |
- Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Configuration to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.

- On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
- Click on Test Attribute Mapping.

- Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.

- After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.
Refer our guide to setup LDAPS on windows server.
User Import and Provisioning from AD
- Go to Settings in the Customer Admin Account.

- Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.

- (Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.

- From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.

- In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application Drop Down.
- Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.

- On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
- Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.

- You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.

- All the imported users will be auto registered.
- These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
5. Adaptive Authentication with workplace
A. Restricting access to workplace with IP Blocking
B. Adaptive Authentication with Limiting number of devices.
Using Adaptive Authentication you can also restrict the number of devices the end user can access the Services on. You can allow end users to access services on a fixed no. of devices. The end users will be able to access services provided by us on this fixed no. of devices.
You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Device Restriction in following way
- Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
- Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
- Select your Action for behaviour Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behaviour Change Section.

- Scroll down to Device Configuration section and enable Allow User to Register Device option to allow users to register their devices.
- Enter the Number of Devices which are allowed to register in field next to Number of Device Registrations Allowed
- Choose Action if number of devices exceeded (This will override your setting for Action for Behaviour Change.)
- Challenge: The user needs to verify himself using any of the three methods mentioned in table in step 5.1
- Deny : Deny users access to the system
- Enable option Send email alerts to Users if number of Device registrations exceeded allowed count if you want to alert the user about no of devices exceeding the limit. Save the configuration.

C. Add Adaptive Authentication policy to workplace.
- Login to Self Service Console >> Policies.
- Click on Edit option for predefined SAML app policy.

- Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
- Enable Adaptive Authentication on Policy page and select the required restriction method as an option.
- From Select Login Policy dropdown select the policy we created in last step and click on save.

How to add a trusted Device
- When End-user log in to the self service console after the policy for device restriction is on, he is provided the option to add the current device as a trusted device.
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