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title: Enable Azure AD SSO connections with your OVHcloud account
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title: Enabling Azure AD SSO connections with your OVHcloud account
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slug: connect-saml-sso-azure-ad
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excerpt: "Find out how to link your Azure AD to your OVHcloud account using SAML 2.0"
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excerpt: "Find out how to associate your Azure Active Directory to your OVHcloud account using SAML 2.0"
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section: 'Advanced use'
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order: 02
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updated: 2023-04-05
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## Objective
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You can use SSO (*Single Sign-On*) to connect to your OVHcloud account. To enable these connections, your account and your Azure AD have to be configured using Security Assertion Markup Language SAML (*Security Assertion Markup Language*).
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You can use SSO (*Single Sign-On*) to connect to your OVHcloud account. To enable these connections, your account and your Azure AD have to be configured using SAML (*Security Assertion Markup Language*).
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**This guide explains how to link your OVHcloud account to an external Azure AD.**
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**This guide explains how to associate your OVHcloud account with an external Azure AD.**
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## Requirements
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> In order for a service provider (i.e. your OVHcloud account) to perform an SSO connection with an identity provider (i.e. your Azure AD), the essential part is to establish a mutual trust relationship.
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> In order for a service provider (i.e. your OVHcloud account) to establish an SSO connection with an identity provider (i.e. your Azure AD), the essential part is to establish a mutual trust relationship by registering the SSO connection in both services.
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### Azure AD Users and Groups
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Then click on `Users`{.action} from the lefthand menu.
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Then click on `Users`{.action} from the left-hand menu.
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Create as many users as you need, or you can just check your users clicking on them.
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For this example, the user **John Smith** will bu used.
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For this example, the user **John Smith** will be used.
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When an SSO authentication is performed, **John Smith**'s identity will be provided from Azure AD to the OVHcloud account. However, it is necessary that this identity contains at least one group. If no group exists, let's look at how to create one to add **John Smith** to it.
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When an SSO authentication is performed, **John Smith**'s identity will be provided by Azure AD to the OVHcloud account. However, it is necessary that this identity contains at least one group. If no group exists, let's look at how to create one to add **John Smith** to it.
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#### Azure AD Groups
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Then click on `Groups`{.action} from the lefthand menu.
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For this example, the group **manager@ovhcloudsaml** will be used.
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Now, users who will be used for SSO authentication must be added to a group.
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In this example, let's link the user **John Smith** with the group **manager@ovhcloudsaml**.
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In the selected group interface, click on `Members`{.action} from the lefthand menu, then to`Add members`{.action} from the top bar menu.
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In order to perform SSO authentications, an Azure AD application must be created.
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### Azure AD applications
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#### Azure AD create application
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#### Create an Azure AD application
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The Azure AD application is now created. Users who want to perform SSO authentications via this application must now be added to it.
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Adding your Azure AD application as a trusted identity provider is done in the [OVHcloud Control Panel](https://www.ovh.com/auth/?action=gotomanager&from=https://www.ovh.co.uk/&ovhSubsidiary=GB) where you can provide the identity provider metadata.
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Fill in the XML metadata of your Azure AD application from the file saved before.
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