Location Restriction for
Office 365
Enable geolocation restrictions to prevent unauthorized users from accessing your MS Office 365 apps and data from an unapproved location. Select the solution that fits your business needs to verify user location, grant or revoke access when the location changes in real-time, and manage access for desktop and mobile apps.
Verify User Location
Ensure users are accessing MS Office 365 apps from a secure and authorized location to reduce the risk of data breaches.
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Geolocation Blocking for MS 365 Apps
Allow access to MS Office 365 apps only when users are in a whitelisted location and block access in real-time when they move out of the approved area using CASB.
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Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, AWS etc), Identity Providers (like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, AWS), and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
Prerequisites
1. Sync On-Premise Active Directory with Azure Active Directory
NOTE: If you want to use your On-Premise Active Directory as a user store to Single Sign-On into Office 365 then follow the below steps to sync your AD and Azure AD.
- Download the Azure AD Connect
- Run the Azure AD installer on your domain machine and follow the setup.
2. Verify your UPN Domain in Azure Portal
- In the Azure portal navigate to Azure Active Directory >> Custom domain names and click on Add custom domain.
- Enter the full domain name in the right pane that pops up and click on Add domain.
- A new window will open up with TXT/MX records for the domain. You will have to add the resented entry in your domain name registrar.
- Click on verify once you have added the entry
Configure user access for Office 365 with Location Restriction
Configure Real-Time Location Restriction for Office 365
1. Setup a Custom Branded URL in miniOrange Admin Console
Single Sign-On into Office 365 requires a custom branded URL to be set. Access to miniOrange and connected resources will need to be through the custom branded URL in the format:
https://<custom_domain>.xecurify.com/moas
- Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
- Click on Customization in the left menu of the dashboard.
- In Basic Settings, set the Organization Name as the custom_domain name.
- Click Save. Once that is set, the branded login URL would be of the format https://<custom_domain>.xecurify.com/moas/login
2. Configure Office 365 in miniOrange
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Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.
- In Choose Application Type click on Create App button in SAML/WS-FED application type.
- In the next step, search for Office 365. Click on Office 365 app.
- Make sure the SP Entity ID or Issuer is: urn:federation:MicrosoftOnline
- Make sure the ACS URL is: https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf
- Click on Next.
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Configure Name ID based on the User Store you are using:
- Using Active Directory / miniOrange brokering service: Select External IDP Attribute from the dropdown and add objectguid in the text-box that appears.
- Using miniOrange as a User Store: Select Custom Profile Attribute and select a Custom Attribute from the drop-down.
- Set the login policy. You can choose to enable 2FA for login or have users login using a standard username-password.
- Click on Save to configure Office 365.
3. Configure Microsoft Online Services
- Click on Select dropdown and choose Metadata.
- Click on the Download Federate Domain Script button under "INFORMATION REQUIRED TO AUTHENTICATE VIA EXTERNAL IDPS"
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Enter the domain name that you want to federate and click on Download. Note: You cannot federate your default "onmicrosoft.com" domain. To federate your Office 365 tenant, you
must add a custom domain to Office 365.
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After downloading the script, Open PowerShell run the federate_domain script using:
cd ./Downloads powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File federate_domain.ps1
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Your domain is now federated. Use the commands below to check your federation settings:
Connect-MsolService Get-MsolDomainFederationService
4. Configure Location Restriction: Restricting access by Limiting the number of locations
In this restriction method, admin configures a list of locations where we want to allow end-users to either login or deny based on the condition set by the admin. When a user tries to login with adaptive
authentication enabled, his Location Attributes such as (Latitude, Longitude and Country Code) are verified against the Location list configured by the admin. And based on this user will be either allowed,
challenged or denied.
You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Location Restriction in following way:
- Go to Adaptive Authentication from the left navigation bar.
- Click on Add Policy tab.
- Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
- Scroll down to Location Configuration section and click on Edit.
- Here, you can Enable Location Registration if User Completes Challenge.
- Under Configured Locations, click on Add Location.
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In the Enter Location input field, enter the Location Name and then select the correct location from the search results dropdown. Next, select your distance parameter as either KMS(KiloMeters) or Miles
under Allowed Radius. For each Location you add, you can choose to either whitelist/allow or blacklist/deny it by selecting the suitable option.
- You can click on the Add Location to add more than one location and then follow steps as mentioned above.
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Now, scroll down to the Action For Behaviour Change section and click on Edit. Select the action you want to perform if the IP address is out of the range. i.e. Allow, Challenge or Deny.
- Scroll to the end and click on save.
5. Enable Restriction for Office 365
- Go to Policies >> App Login Policy from the left navigation bar.
- Click on Edit option against your selected app.
- Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
- Enable Adaptive Authentication.
- From the Select Login Policy dropdown, select the policy we created in the last step and select the required restriction method as an option.
- Click Save.
2. Configure SAML app in miniOrange
- Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.
- Under Choose Application, select SAML/WS-FED from the All Apps dropdown.
- In the next step, search for Custom SAML App and click on it .
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In the Basic Settings tab, enter your desired app name and add the SP metadata by clicking the Import SP Metadata button; you can find the metadata in the
authentication source tab in CASB.
- Once done, click on Save button.
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Now, go to miniOrange CASB dashboard by clicking here.
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After signing in, you should be taken to the miniOrange dashboard page. Locate the
"Office365"
tab and click on the Add App button.
- Select the Add Authentication Source option from the drop-down menu.
- Mention an Authentication name for the authentication source, and click on Generate Metadata.
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After clicking on Generate Metadata, you will get the metadata details, as shown in the image below. Use this data to configure the SAML application in your Identity Provider (IDP).
- If you would like to view the metadata details again, then you can click on the View Metadata button.
- You can obtain the required IDP metadata from the saml app you configured using the miniorange identity provider.
- Now, Enter the remaining details like the IDP Entity ID, SAML Login URL, SAML Logout URL, and X.509 Certificate which you will find in your Identity Provider metadata.
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Once done, Choose the Binding Type for SSO Request as required. You will find this information in the IDP metadata. However, if you are not sure, please select the HTTP-Redirect Binding as the default
configuration.
- Click the Save & Next button once you have filled out all the details.
- Now, You will be redirected to the Basic Settings section.
- Fill in the following details to configure the Office365 Application:
| Application Name: |
Enter the name of your application |
| Organization Domain: |
Enter the domain of your organization on Shopify. (Ex: example.com) |
| Attribute Key: |
Enter the Group Attribute Key for the SSO app, which you have configured in the IDP under the SAML attributes section. |
| Name Attribute Key: |
Enter the attribute name like fname,Lname etc. |
| Enter ACS URL: |
Enter the office365 ACS URL as : https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf |
| Enter Entity URL: |
Enter the office365 Entity URL as : urn:federation:MicrosoftOnline |
| CASB Type |
Select CASB type as Offline |
| Enable MDM |
If you want to configure MDM on your device, enable it |
- Once done, click on Save & Next to save your changes.
3. Configuring Policies
Let’s see how to configure policies for Office365 CASB.
- You should be taken to the Manage Policy screen. Enter your policy details, like Policy Name and Policy Description.
- Click on Checkbox for “Enable Location Restriction” as shown in the image below.
- By enabling this feature, you are restricting access to users based on their Location:
1) Select the Allow or Deny option to either permit or restrict certain locations.
2) Select Locations from dropdown.
4. Configuring Groups
Let’s see how to configure Groups for Office365 CASB.
- Now, You are redirected to the Manage Group screen. Enter the Group Name and Group Description. Select the Office365 Policy from the drop-down menu.
- Choose the application to which you want to apply below permissions.
1) App Restriction: In this, the restrictions will be applied over the application based on the policy that you have configured for the group.
2) No App Restriction: In this, there will be no restrictions on the application for the group.
3) Disable App: By choosing this option, the application becomes inaccessible from anywhere for the entire group.
4) Custom App Restriction: By using this, you can apply an application-specific custom application restriction policy to an application that overpowers the group's restriction policy.
- Now, click on Save & Next button.
- After successfully configuring all screens, you will be redirected to the edit screen.
5. Edit Screen
6. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
- Click on External Directories >> Add Directory in the left menu of the dashboard.
- Select Directory type as AD/LDAP.
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway in your premise.
- Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
- Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
- Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
- Click on Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.
- In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for Distinguished Name attribute.
- Enter the valid Bind account Password.
- Click on Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.
- Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.
- Select a suitable Search filter from the drop-down menu. If you use User in Single Group Filter or User in Multiple Group Filter, replace the <group-dn> in the search filter with the distinguished name of the group in which your users are present. To use custom Search Filter select "Write your Custom Filter" option and customize it accordingly.
- You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save button to add user store.
Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.
| Attribute |
Description |
| Activate LDAP |
All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it |
| Sync users in miniOrange |
Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP |
| Fallback Authentication |
If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange |
| Allow users to change password |
This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server |
| Enable administrator login |
On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server |
| Show IdP to users |
If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users |
| Send Configured Attributes |
If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login |
- Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Connection to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.
- On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
- Click on Test Attribute Mapping.
- Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.
- After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.
Refer our guide to setup LDAPS on windows server.
User Import and Provisioning from AD
- Go to Settings >> Product Settings in the Customer Admin Account.
- Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.
- (Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.
- From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.
- In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application drop-down.
- Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.
- On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
- Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.
- You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.
- All the imported users will be auto registered.
- These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
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