Enroll WorkZone - Cloud Edition in Azure and set up SCIM provisioning

To enroll a new WorkZone instance in Microsoft Azure and set up SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity Management) provisioning users and groups from Azure AD to WorkZone, you must complete the flowering steps:

1. Associate UPN with WorkZone SCIMADMIN account

2. Generate secret token

3. Set up Azure AD enterprise application

4. Configure automatic provisioning for the enterprise application

5. Assign users and groups to the enterprise application

1. Associate UPN with WorkZone SCIMADMIN account

Prerequisite: You need to know the User Principal Name (UPN) from an existing account in your organization's Azure tenant that you want to associate with the WorkZone SCIMADMIN account.

To associate the UPN with the WorkZone SCIMADMIN account, run the following SQL against your organization’s WorkZone - Cloud Edition database.

update users set upn=(UPN) where user_name='SCIMADMIN'

Note that WorkZone technicians often carry out this task.

2. Generate secret token

You need to generate a secret token for use in your Azure AD enterprise application setup of the WorkZone provisioning.

  1. Log on with the account from step 1.

  2. Open WorkZone Configurator and go to Services > SCIM Provisioning.

  3. On the SCIM Provisioning page, generate a token and copy it for use in the Azure AD Enterprise Application.

See SCIM provisioning in the WorkZone Configurator Guide.

3. Set up Azure AD enterprise application

The setup of the Azure AD enterprise application depends on whether your WorkZone - Cloud Edition instance is publicly accessible or not publicly accessible.

WorkZone - Cloud Edition is publicly accessible

For WorkZone Cloud Edition setups where WorkZone is publicly accessible, you need to create a new non-gallery application for provisioning in your Azure tenant as shown below.

  • Enter a name of your own choice.

Please see the Microsoft article Integrate your SCIM endpoint with the AAD SCIM client for instructions on how to create a non-gallery application

WorkZone - Cloud Edition is not publicly accessible

If the WorkZone servers are not publicly accessible, for example when they are hosted in a lab and you want to test or develop in the lab, you will need to use the gallery app named On-Premises SCIM app, and additionally install a SCIM agent on the web server.

Please see the Microsoft article Azure AD on-premises application provisioning to SCIM-enabled apps for instructions on how to create an on-premise application.

4. Configure automatic provisioning for the enterprise application

For both public and non-public WorkZone - Cloud Edition instances, you will need to configure automatic provisioning for the enterprise application that you created in step 3.

  1. Under Admin Credentials, enter the address to the WorkZone Provisioning SCIM web service. For example, https://CUSTOMER.workzone.cloud/provisioning/scim.

  2. Enter the secret token that you generated in step 2 in the Secret Token field.

  3. Click Test Connection to test the connection.

  1. Under Mappings, leave the default settings for mapping users and groups as is to use the default mapping scheme that Azure offers.
  2. Save the configuration.

5. Assign users and groups to the enterprise application

Assign the relevant users and groups to the application and start the automatic provisioning See Provision Azure AD to WorkZone.

Azure AD runs the provisioning service runs every 40 minutes. During the provisioning, users and groups are added to a set of staging tables in the WorkZone database, and a WorkZone - Cloud Edition application named SourceImport.exe creates the WorkZone users and assigns access codes to them based on the data in the staging tables.

It is recommended that WorkZone technicians set up a scheduled task that will run this application every 40 minutes.

The command line to use is:

SourceImport.exe /mode=AZURE_AD /db=<Name of WorkZone database>

For example:

SourceImport.exe /mode=AZURE_AD /db=db01

Note: It may take about 80 minutes for changes to users and groups in Azure to be completed in WorkZone - Cloud Edition.

Staging tables

The three most important tables that are populated with data from Azure AD are:

  • SCIM_USER
  • SCIM_GROUP
  • SCIM_GROUP_MEMBER

The SCIM_GROUP_MEMBER table contains the connections between users and the groups that they are member of as well as connections between nested groups.