Introduction to SAML with MS Entra ID

Main steps of SAML authentication setup with Microsoft Entra ID.

For an overall understanding of the SAML authentication feature, read the Overview of authentication and provisioning page.

To set up SAML with Microsoft Entra ID:

1. If you want to use Just-in-Time provisioning with the group synchronization feature, verify the user groups in SonarQube Community Build so that the automatic group synchronization can take place properly. See Just-in-Time provisioning > Group synchronization in Overview of authentication and provisioning.

2. Make sure your SonarQube URL is set in SonarQube Server. See Server base URL.

3. Register SonarQube Server in Entra ID. See Setup in Microsoft Entra ID.

4. Configure SAML in SonarQube Server. See Setup in SonarQube Community Build.

5. Optionally, , set up security features. See Setup of security features.

• Group synchronization doesn’t work with Microsoft Entra ID’s nested groups.

• Microsoft Entra ID SAML tokens have a limit regarding the number of groups a user can belong to (see the description of groups in the Claims in SAML Token table). In such cases, you might need to reduce the number of groups the user is in.

With SonarQube Server, in addition to the SAML setup, you can configure SCIM to automatically provision users and groups to SonarQube. For more information, see Feature comparison table.