Configuring the Autodesk SSO connection

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Hello, I am going to walk you through how to set up your Autodesk Single Sign-on with your identity provider.

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As part of that process, you should be having access to your domain host, have an admin account with your identity provider.

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The second step is to add and verify your domains.

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As part of that verifying your domain, you should be logging in as an account administrator,

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as a primary admin or as an SSO admin onto your Autodesk manage portal.

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Then, within the user management section of By User tab submenu, you should do this user management page.

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Within that workflow, you would be automatically redirected within the team that you are part of and where you want to set up your Single Sign-on.

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Within this user management page, you will see this gear icon.

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Clicking this gear icon will navigate you to the settings.

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On clicking onto the Manage SSO button, you would be navigated on setting up your domains.

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As a part of first step, you should be able to add your own domain and verify your domain.

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Now you will see over here, there is this Add Domains button.

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Now, what I am going to do is that I am going to add my domain, and through the self-serve workflow that Autodesk has provided,

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I should be able to verify my domain without requiring any help from the Autodesk support team.

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My domain is-

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I add this particular domain, and the next step is getting this domain verified.

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I click on this Verify Domain button.

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You will see there are two options to verify your domain.

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One is clicking on this link through which Autodesk provides an HTML verification file,

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and you, as an IT administrator, need to upload this HTML file onto your domain host server,

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and the verification could be done within few minutes.

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The second way is creating a text record on your DNS side, but this can take up to 72+ hours depending on the service provider to service provider.

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But the most recommended way is to upload your HTML file onto your domain host.

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In this way, you can verify your domain within minutes.

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Now, I click onto this Verify HTML button link and I save this HTML file onto a local machine.

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Now, let's verify what is there into this particular file that Autodesk is providing.

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This is nothing, but some information to identify the domain that the user is uploading to the Autodesk side.

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I will login to my domain host server, and within the domain host server, I would upload my HTML file, which was provided by Autodesk.

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Now, it happens that my domain host right now is in HostGator.

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It could be any service provider.

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It could be on Azure, GCP, AWS, or even you could have your own servers who is hosting your domain host.

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I would select this particular file and upload this file on to my domain host's root folder.

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Now, I go back to my Autodesk account portal and just hit the Verify now button.

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Once I hit this Verify now button, you see that the domain was verified within minutes,

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and without taking any further help from the Autodesk support team.

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Now, before you turn on SSO for your complete domain, it is recommended to add test users.

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This will only help you as an IT administrator to not rollout the SSO functionality for all the users that are within the domain.

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It will just enable a certain bunch of users that you want them to test out if the SSO connectivity is working or not.

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I hit this Add Test Users menu option.

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I hit the next button.

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What I am going to do, I am going to add the necessary users I want to provide access to,

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to test if the SSO connectivity with Autodesk is working or not before rolling it out across all the users within my domain.

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I am going to test out with a particular user within my domain.

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I add this another user whom I want to access, and then I save.

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Once I save, this test user is now added.

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Before I ask this user to try out whether Autodesk Single sign-on is working or not,

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I as an IT admin also needs to add this user onto my identity provider.

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Let me go and add this particular user, over here, now I go to the Add Users section and I search for this user, which is already there in my AD.

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I select this particular user and I assign this user to my Autodesk SSO 1234 enterprise app.

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Now that I have added my test users, I would like to test if my test users are able to login to Autodesk portal through our Single sign-on page.

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Here, I navigate to Autodesk accounts portal and I punch in the test user's email address.

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Now, you will see over here, as soon as I punch in the email address of that test user,

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I am now navigated to my company's Single sign-on page.

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Over here, I see it is the Azure page, which has loaded up.

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But for your case, if you are using your identity provider or your company's Single sign-on page,

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that page would be loaded up over here.

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What I do, I type in my email address and my password credential, and that's pretty much it.

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Through my Single sign-on, I am able to login to Autodesk accounts portal through my Single sign-on workflow.

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Now that you have tested the SSO connection for your domain with help of your test users, it is time to turn on the SSO for your complete domain.

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Under the Manage SSO tab, we navigate to your connection, and inside that connection, we hit the test and turn on SSO button.

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I directly go and hit this radio button to turn on SSO for my complete domain.

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Here, in this page, you will be asked to confirm that you understand signing in with SSO will take immediately,

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and turning off SSO requires help from Autodesk support.

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Check the box to confirm.

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If you want new users to automatically receive Single sign-on access, check automatically give new users access to sign in with SSO.

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You can change this setting anytime under the Edit SSO access.

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Now, you hit turn on SSO.

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Once you hit this turn on SSO button, your SSO connection for your entire domain is in effect immediately.