Azure Active Directory SSO

Single Sign-On (SSO) allows usersto log into the Online Video Platform (OVP) using login credentials from third party platforms such as Microsoft (Azure) or Google. 

In this article you will learn how to set up Blue Billywig Single Sign On (SSO) with an Azure Active Directory (AD) identity provider.

1.0 | Azure AD setup

First, setup Azure AD by starting to configure Blue Billywig as a relying party:

• Open Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com/
• Open Azure Active Directory:
  • Click Enterprise Applications
  • Click + New Application
  • Click + Create your own application:
    • Enter Name of your app: Blue Billywig SSO
    • Choose Integrate any other application you don’t find in the gallery (Non-gallery)
    • Click Create
  • Open new enterprise application:
    • Click Single Sign-on:
      • Click SAML
      • In section Basic SAML Configuration:
        • Set Identifier (Entity ID) to the Billywig SSO entity ID:
          Entity ID: eu-west-1_2Gn0U5Y6I and check Default
        • Set Reply URL to the Blue Billywig SSO SAML trusted URL:
          SAML trusted URL: https://auth.bluebillywig.com/saml2/idpresponse and check Default
        • Click Save
      • In section SAML Signing Certificate:
        • Lookup App Federation Metadata Url

• • • Open Users and groups:
      • Click Add user/group, add groups and/or users that should be allowed access through this SSO.

2.0 | Configure SSO in the OVP

Finally, reach out to the Blue Billywig support team at support@bluebillywig.com to enable SSO on your OVP account. 

To enable Azure Active Directory on your OVP account we need to receive the App Federation Metadata endpoint on Azure AD. This typically looks like: 

https://login.microsoftonline.com/{ad-tenant-id}/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml?appid={application-id}