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Google Data Studio Single Sign-On (SSO)

Google Data Studio provides a platform that allows users to Visualize and Connect to the data by converting the data into informative and easy to read reports with customizable dashboards option.miniOrange provides a ready to use Single Sign-On (SSO) solution for Google Data Studio. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to Webflow to your employees within minutes to accomplish most aspects of web development & website distribution entirely within the application.

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Google Data Studio Single Sign-On (SSO)
Connect with External Source of Users
Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Google Data Studio Single Sign-On (SSO)
1. Configure Google Data Studio in miniOrange
2. Embed Google Data Studio application link in your Website/User Portal
3. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
User Import and Provisioning from AD
Not able to find your IdP or Need help setting it up?
4. Adaptive Authentication with Google Data Studio
External References

For web applications that do not provide support for federated single sign-on, we have miniOrange Secure Single Sign-On browser plugins for SSO. Here, it is enabled on an application, where end users see an icon on their home pages and browsers, through this users can set and update their credentials. ( In the secure store for that application only).

miniOrange Supports all Browser Extension

miniOrange Secure Single Sign-On Plugins for SSO support all popular web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.
Browser plugin a secure driven post to the application login page, signing in the user automatically on their behalf. - The plug-in does not store the credentials anywhere and they are discarded once the user has signed into the application.
Users credentials are stored in an encrypted format by using AES encryption with the combination of a customer-specific private key. When a user clicks the application icon, miniOrange securely posts the username/password to the app login page over SSL and the user is automatically logged in.

Connect with External Source of Users

miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Shibboleth, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more.

Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Google Data Studio Single Sign-On (SSO)

1. Configure Google Data Studio in miniOrange

Log into miniOrange Admin Console.
Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.

In Choose Application Type click on Create App button in Browser Extension/Form-Post application type.

In the next step, search for your application from the list, if you can't find your application click on Add Custom App button .

If you have got your application,Select Group name as default.
Select your login type account.
Here you can see the following two options

INDIVIDUAL LOGIN ACCOUNT : If each user has a different username and password for the app, admin should choose an individual login account option, so that users can save their username and password from the user portal themselves.
SHARED LOGIN ACCOUNT :If multiple users are allowed to access the app via same credentials assigned by admin, admin should choose share Login Account option.
After selecting the required fields, click on Save button.

(If you have selected Custom App configure it accordingly by submitting mandatory fields like : Application Name, Application Type, Login Page URL, Username Field, Passworrd Field, Submit Button Field and click on Save button.)

Go to miniOrange dashboard and select User Dashboard from right side menu.

Scroll down on the same page under the section of configure your cloud apps section and search for Google Data Studio app, on the app icon you will find setting option. Click on it and select Configure.(If you are unable to find app in this list then please contact us)

Once you done with configuration, scroll up on same page, under the SIGN-IN TO YOUR FAVOURITE CLOUD APPS section search for Google Data Studio app. On Google Data Studio app icon, click on the download symbol.
It will redirect you to add extension page. Now, click on the Add to Chrome.

Click on Add extension.

Now, miniOrange extension is added in your extension
Click on the app icon from miniOrange user portal, you will be redirected to Google Data Studio login page.

Now browser extension will fill the username and password credentials automatically. Once enabled, end users can see an icon on their browser which auto-fills username and password on the application login page and submit the page automatically to let user access the app.
Now, you can see the homepage of the app.

2. Embed Google Data Studio application link in your Website/User Portal

Go to Admin Dashboard >> Apps >> search for Google Data Studio app >> Click on Select in Action menu against Google Data Studio app. Select Show SSO link option from dropdown.

Copy the app link and paste it anywhere on your website - User portal/ Apps Dashboard /Menu, etc.

3. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)

miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, 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.

Setup miniOrange as IDP
Setup AD as User Directory
Setup External IDP

To add your users in miniOrange there are 2 ways:

1. Create User in miniOrange

2. Bulk Upload Users

1. Create User in miniOrange

Click on Users >> Add User.

Here, fill the user details without the password and then click on the Create User button.

After successful user creation a notification message "An end user is added successfully" will be displayed at the top of the dashboard.

Click on On Boarding Status tab. Check the email, with the registered e-mail id and select action Send Activation Mail with Password Reset Link from Select Action dropdown list and then click on Apply button.

Now, Open your email id. Open the mail you get from miniOrange and then click on the link to set your account password.
On the next screen, enter the password and confirm password and then click on the Single Sign-On (SSO) reset password button.

Now, you can log in into miniOrange account by entering your credentials.

2. Bulk Upload Users in miniOrange via Uploading CSV File.

Navigate to Users >> User List. Click on Add User button.

In Bulk User Registration Download sample csv format from our console and edit this csv file according to the instructions.

To bulk upload users, choose the file make sure it is in comma separated .csv file format then click on Upload.

After uploading the csv file successfully, you will see a success message with a link.
Click on that link you will see list of users to send activation mail. Select users to send activation mail and click on Send Activation Mail. An activation mail will be sent to the selected users.

Click on User Stores >> Add User Store in the left menu of the dashboard.

Select User Store 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. To use custom Search Filter select "Custom Search 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.

Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Configuration 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 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.

Okta
ADFS
Ping
AWS Cognito
Many more

Not able to find your IdP or Need help setting it up?

Contact us or email us at and we'll help you setting it up in no time.

4. Adaptive Authentication with Google Data Studio

A. Restricting access to Google Data Studio with IP Blocking

You can use adaptive authentication with Google Data Studio Single Sign-On (SSO) to improve the security and functionality of Single Sign-On. You can allow a IP Address in certain range for SSO or you can deny it based your requirements and you can also challenge the user to verify his authenticity. Adaptive authentication manages the user authentication bases on different factors such as Device ID, Location, Time of Access, IP Address and many more.

You can configure Adaptive Authentication with IP Blocking in following way:

Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.

Select your Action for behaviour Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behaviour Change Section.

Action for behaviour Change Options :

Challenge Type Options :

OTP over SMS
PUSH Notification
OTP over Email
And 12 more methods.

Now Enable Enable IP Restriction option from the IP RESTRICTION CONFIGURATION section to configure custom IP range.

Select the Action you want to perform if the IP address is out of the range. i.e. Allow, Challenge & Deny.
Specify the IP Address range for which you want above setting to reflect. You can add more than one IP Address ranges by clicking on following button +.
Scroll to the end and click on save.

B. Adaptive Authentication with Limiting number of devices.

Using Adaptive Authentication you can also restrict the number of devices the end user can access the Services on. You can allow end users to access services on a fixed no. of devices. The end users will be able to access services provided by us on this fixed no. of devices.

You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Device Restriction in following way

Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
Select your Action for behaviour Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behaviour Change Section.

Scroll down to Device Configuration section and enable Allow User to Register Device option to allow users to register their devices.
Enter the Number of Devices which are allowed to register in field next to Number of Device Registrations Allowed
Choose Action if number of devices exceeded (This will override your setting for Action for Behaviour Change.)

Challenge: The user needs to verify himself using any of the three methods mentioned in table in step 4.1
Deny : Deny users access to the system

Enable option Send email alerts to Users if number of Device registrations exceeded allowed count if you want to alert the user about no of devices exceeding the limit. Save the configuration.

C. Add Adaptive Authentication policy to Google Data Studio.

Login to Self Service Console >> Policies.
Click on Edit option for predefined SAML app policy.

Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
Enable Adaptive Authentication on Policy page and select the required restriction method as an option.
From Select Login Policy dropdown select the policy we created in last step and click on save.

How to add a trusted Device

When End-user log in to the self service console after the policy for device restriction is on, he is provided the option to add the current device as a trusted device.