Microsoft Entra enterprise applications for Opensense

Overview

When Opensense is integrated with your Microsoft 365 environment, three enterprise applications are installed in your Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) tenant. This article explains what each application does and what happens if it is removed. Use it as a reference when you see these applications in your tenant and need to check their purpose.

All three applications are deployed during your Opensense onboarding, with the guidance of an Opensense Implementation Engineer.

Opensense Email Signatures: The Opensense Outlook Add-in.
Directory Sync v3.1: Read-only directory access that syncs user and group data into Opensense.
Opensense Single Sign-On (OIDC): Single sign-on to the Opensense portal for administrators.

Opensense Email Signatures

This application is the Opensense Outlook Add-in. It integrates directly with Outlook to apply centrally managed email signatures and is installed as part of your organization’s email infrastructure during onboarding. Learn more in the Outlook Add-in overview article.

Directory Sync v3.1

This application enables read-only access to your Azure Active Directory to sync user and group data into Opensense. It supports automatic directory syncs so that employee profile data in Opensense stays current with your directory. It does not modify any data in Azure AD.

Opensense Single Sign-On (OIDC)

This application enables single sign-on for Opensense administrators using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol. It lets admins sign in to the Opensense portal with their Microsoft 365 credentials, providing secure authentication through your organization’s existing identity infrastructure.

This application supersedes the older Opensense SSO (SAML) method. OIDC is the current standard for all new and existing deployments.