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EmpowerID Azure AD SCIM connector allows organizations to bring the user and group data in their Box system to EmpowerID, where it can be managed and synchronized with data in any connected back-end user directories. Once connected, you can manage this data from EmpowerID in the following ways:
Account Management
Inventory Azure AD user accounts
Create, Update and Delete Azure AD user accounts
Enable and Disable Azure AD user accounts
Update passwords for Azure AD user accounts
Group Management
Inventory Azure AD groups
Inventory Azure AD group memberships
Create and Delete Azure AD groups
Add and Remove members to and from Azure AD groups
Attribute Flow
Users in Azure AD are inventoried as accounts in EmpowerID, which are then linked EmpowerID Person objects. The below table shows the attribute mappings of Box user attributes to EmpowerID Person attributes.
Azure AD Attribute | Corresponding EmpowerID Attribute | Description |
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Name | Name | Name of the user |
name.familyName | LastName | Last name of the user |
name.givenName | FirstName | First name of the user |
name.middleName | MiddleName | Middle name of the user |
displayName | FriendlyName | Display Name of the user |
name.honorificSuffix | GenerationalSuffix | |
title | Title | Title of the user |
email[?(@type=='work')].value | Work email address of the user | |
['urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User'].['department'] | Department | Department of the user |
['urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User'].['EmployeeNumber'] | EmployeeID | Employee ID of the user |
addresses[?(@.type=='work')].streetAddress | StreetAddress | Street address of the user |
addresses[?(@.type=='work')].locality | City | City in which the user resides or works |
addresses[?(@.type=='work')].region | State | State in which the user resides or works |
addresses[?(@.type=='work')].country | Country | Country of the user |
addresses[?(@.type=='work')].postalCode | PostalCode | Postal code of the user |
phoneNumbers[?(@.type=='home')].value | HomeTelephone | Home telephone of the user |
preferredLanguage | PreferredLanguage | Preferred language of the user |
phoneNumbers[?(@.type=='other')].value | Telephone | Telephone number for the person |
phoneNumbers[?(@.type=='fax')].value | Fax | Fax number for the person |
Additionally, EmpowerID provides Provisioning policies or Resource Entitlements that allow you to automatically provision Azure AD user accounts for any person within your organization based on your policy requirements.
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To connect EmpowerID to Azure AD, In order to connect EmpowerID to Azure AD, the following prerequisites need to be met:
EmpowerID “Proxy” or Connection Account RequirementsEmpowerID uses highly privileged user accounts when connecting to user directories such as Azure Active Directory, LDAP or database systems. These user "account stores" use saved proxy accounts for connecting to these systems and performing user account management operations. EmpowerID requires one privileged account per domain or directory. This account requires all of the privileges matching the functions that EmpowerID may perform (user creation, deletion, password reset, group creation, etc). |
To create an Azure AD SCIM account store in EmpowerID
On the navbar, expand Admin > Applications and Directories and then click Account Stores and Systems.
On the Account Stores page, click Create Account Store.
Under System Types, search for Azure AD SCIM.
Click Azure AD SCIM to select the type and then click Submit.
On the Azure AD SCIM settings page that appears, fill in the following information:
Account Store Name — Enter a name for the Azure AD SCIM account store.
App Service Url — Enter the URL for the Azure App Service.
Name Format — Leave blank.
Friendly Name Format — Leave blank.
Group Logon Name Format — Leave blank.
ExternalSysSupportGetDeleted — Choose this option.
ExternalSystemSupportIncrementalMember — Choose this option.
Application ID — Enter the ID for the EmpowerID application you registered for EmpowerID in Azure AD.
Tenant ID — Enter the ID of your Tenant.
Auth Certificate Thumbprint — Enter the thumbprint of the certificate you uploaded for the application.
When ready, click Submit to create the account store.
EmpowerID creates the account store and the associated resource system. The next step is to configure attribute flow between the account store and EmpowerID.
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To configure account store settings
On the Account Store and Resource System page, click the Account Store tab and then click the pencil icon to put the account store in edit mode.
This opens the edit page for the account store. This page allows you to specify the account proxy used to connect EmpowerID to your Azure AD as well as how you want EmpowerID to handle the user information it discovers during inventory. Settings that can be edited are described in the table below the image.
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Now that everything is configured, you can enable the Account Inbox Permanent Workflow and monitor inventory. Be sure inventory is enabled on the account store settings page.
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