Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for Faronics Deploy
  • 17 Mar 2025
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Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for Faronics Deploy

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Article summary

This document provides a step-by-step guide for setting up SSO Configuration to configure Faronics Deploy. It allows users to sign in to Faronics Deploy services using their OneIdP credentials and securely access these services.

Pre-requisites

  1. The Custom Domain for which you are authorizing should be verified through OneIdP.

  2. Users belonging to the custom domain should be added to the Scalefusion Dashboard and migrated to OneIdP.

  3. IT Admins should have access to the Faronics Deploy admin console.

  4. Users should be added to the Faronics Deploy portal.

Create SSO Configuration for Faronics Deploy

  1. Sign in to Scalefusion Dashboard and navigate to OneIdP > SSO Configuration

  2. Click on the New SSO Configuration button on the top right.

  3. Once you click New SSO Configuration, the following window will pop up. Select Faronics Deploy and click Configure

Application Basics

Configure basic application details by entering the following:

  • Enter Application Name: Enter a name for your App which will be an identifier for your configuration. The name must be at least 5 characters long. The maximum allowed length is 128 characters.

  • Select Hosting Type: This will be pre-selected as Cloud

  • Select Domains: All the custom domains you have configured and verified using OneIdP, will be listed here. Select the domain(s) which you want to be SAML SSO enabled.

  • Enter Login URL: Provide the URL that you use to sign in to that service.

    Once you have entered all details click Next

SSO Scope Management

With SSO scope management you can configure the procedure for managing the users who will be accessing this application. It allows how SAML settings for the users are going to be managed. The following are the settings:

User assignment

SSO Configuration would allow only assigned users to access the app. Choose one from the following options:

  1. Allow all users imported to Scalefusion to access the application: All users (belonging to the domain) imported to Scalefusion and migrated to OneIdP will be allowed to access the application.

  2. Allow only assigned users to access the application: Only the user(s) whom you have assigned the SSO configuration, will be allowed to access the application. With this option, after the SSO configuration is created, you need to manually select and assign the users.

    1. Revoke access for all users once when the configuration is saved: If this is checked, the access is revoked from the users who are currently assigned to the configuration. As a result, it will invalidate all user sessions and logout users from their current running session.

Enforcement Rules

From here, you can configure and enforce to users at what point in time SSO Configuration should invalidate the current session and logout users. The following options can be selected:

  1. Immediately on User Assignment and post grace period if applied: Once SSO configuration is assigned to the user

  2. Immediately on User Un-Assignment: When the user is unassigned the SSO configuration

  3. Immediately on Deleting this configuration: When SSO configuration is deleted from Scalefusion Dashboard

Permissions

Here, you do not need to grant any additional permissions. Click Next to go to the next step.

SSO Settings

This section allows admins to configure the Service Provider (Faronics Deploy) settings and obtain the SSO URLs that will be added to the Faronics Deploy portal.

Configure SSO Settings on the Faronics Deploy admin console

On the Faronics Deploy Portal, follow these steps:

  1. In the top right corner, Click on Profile > Select User Management.

  1. At the top right tabs in User Management, Click on SAML.

  1. Enter your Login Domain > Download Metadata from Scalefusion Dashboard in SSO Settings and Upload it in the Identity Provider Configuration.

  1. Expand the Advanced Options for Attributes mapping. Copy Email, First Name, Last Name from Attribute Mapping.

  1. Paste them in the Attribute Key in the Scalefusion Dashboard along with the following Attribute Values for mapping the users directly from the Scalefusion Dashboard to Faronics Deploy’s Users. Locate back to the Faronics Dashboard and Save the SAML settings. On the Scalefusion Dashboard, Click on Next.

Conditional Access

From this section, you can define the additional conditions based on which users will be allowed/disallowed from accessing the application on the device. This is divided into the following sections:

  1. Conditional Access Settings

  2. Access Exceptions

Conditional Access Settings

Device Policy

  1. For Android, iOS/iPad OS, Windows & macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS: Choose one from the following two conditions:

    1. Only if the device is managed by Scalefusion: The application will be accessible only on devices managed (enrolled) by Scalefusion.

    2. If the device is managed by Scalefusion or an OTP using Scalefusion Authenticator app from a managed device: The application is accessible if any of the following conditions are met:

      1. Device is managed by Scalefusion: If the device is managed you will not be asked to enter OTP for authentication, or

      2. If the device is unmanaged, OTP is required for authentication. OTP can be taken from the Authenticator app installed on a Scalefusion-managed device.

    3. Allow users to access by setting up MFA using a third-party authenticator app or OTP sent by email: This option is activated only when Multi-factor Authentication is enabled in Directory Settings.
      Note: The left side panel is for configuring Device Policy on Android & iOS/iPad OS and the right side is for Windows & macOS and Linux, ChromeOS below them. Hence, you can configure separate device policies based on the platform.

Browser Policy

From here, you can select one or more browsers and specify the minimum versions on which you want to allow access to the application. The following are the options:

  • All Browsers

  • Google Chrome with minimum version

  • Microsoft Edge with minimum version

  • Safari with minimum version

  • Mozilla Firefox with minimum version

Important Points on Browser Policy:

  1. By default, all browsers are allowed.

  2. Only major versions are validated. For eg. if you mention browser version: 23.5.8.10 then the respective browser with a minimum major version(23) will be allowed. After configuring Device Policy and Browser Policy, click Next

Access Exceptions

From this section, you can configure the exceptions where the users are allowed to access the applications even if the conditions are not met. In general, these exceptions will be useful or address scenarios where :

  1. IT Admins have set up Android Enterprise using Google Workspace Or

  2. IT Admins have set up Apple User Enrollment with ABM/ASM federated to Google Workspace

Following are the exceptions that can be configured:

  1. Enrollment Exceptions

    1. Allow users to access the application till they enroll their first device: Allows users to access the application till they enroll at least one device. This option is helpful in conditions where the enrollment steps require them to authenticate with the service provider. With this, you can also configure the following:

      1. Maximum sessions allowed per user: Configure no. of sessions that should be exempted. It can range from 1 to 3. Ideally, 1 session per user is recommended.

      2. Configure the OS where the exceptions are applied: Select the platform(s) on which this exemption would be allowed to users.

  2. User Exceptions
    Here you can add the users who are always exempted from the conditions and will never be asked to manage their device. Enter comma-separated email addresses of users or click on Add Users on the right and in the new window, select the users who should be exempted.
    Note: These users still need to sign in with their OneDirectory credentials if they fall under the SSO Scope, however, the conditions will not be enforced.

User Facing Messages

User Facing Messages helps admins configure messages that end users may be shown when they are unable to access the application if any of the compliance conditions are not met. You can configure messages under the following:

  • Configure Instructions for a Non-Compliant Device: This message is shown when the device is not compliant and needs to be enrolled in Scalefusion

  • Configure Instructions for a Non-Compliant Browser: Shown when the browser is not compliant as per configurations

  • Configure a Message to be displayed when Access is Denied: Any other cases where access to the application is denied.

There are some pre-configured messages displayed on the Dashboard which you can edit as per requirement.

After configuring user-facing messages, click on Save

The SSO configuration is created and listed on the SSO Configuration page as a separate card with the name you have defined. You can create multiple SSO configurations in the same manner.

User Login to Faronics Deploy after SSO Configuration

  1. On Faronics Deploy’s login page: Select Log in with SAML > Enter your Domain Identifier > Click Sign IN.

  1. Faronics Deploy will redirect you to OneIdP page to authenticate > After entering credentials, click on Sign In.

  1. You should be logged in into Faronics Cloud.


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