Introduction

Main steps of SAML authentication setup with Microsoft Entra ID in SonarQube Server 2025.2.

For an overall understanding of the SAML authentication feature, read the Overview of SAML 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 Server 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 Server base URL.
3. Setup in Microsoft Entra ID.
4. Setup in SonarQube Server.
5. If you want to use SCIM provisioning, With Microsoft Entra ID.
6. Optionally, 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.