Bitwarden Enterprise Password Manager Implementation Guide
A resource to help you and your team successfully launch Bitwarden password manager across 4 phases
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Step and Action | Key Person | Help Articles and Links |
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Step 1: Administrator Training Example special topics include, but are not limited to: Considerations for self-hosted environments Demonstrating the configured SSO login flow Custom fields Custom roles Setting up Bitwarden two-step login (if not configured with the SSO IdP) | Internal training / managers | Personalized training sessions are also available upon request |
Step 2: Team Member Training A general training session for end users will cover: How to Import current passwords into Bitwarden Bitwarden for all devices Setting up the Bitwarden Browser Extension Creating your account Getting to know the Bitwarden vault How to use the Bitwarden Password Manager Bitwarden Send | All levels | Personalized training sessions are also available upon request |
Step 3: Service desk training Optional dedicated training session to set your service desk team up for success | Service desk, customer success leads | |
Ongoing Education All users can take advantage of monthly new and updated learning content in the Bitwarden Learning Center New users brought on after initial onboarding can take advantage of the live Bitwarden Weekly Demo and Q&A or watch a pre-recorded version | All levels |
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Step and Action | Key Person | Help Articles and Links |
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Step 1: Identify Organization Owner Create a free user account on https://vault.bitwarden.com using the email intended for Organization ownership and administration. The Owner is the super-user that can control all aspects of your organization. Decide if you want the email to be associated with a specific user or a team inbox. | Organization Owner | |
Step 2: Create Organization Create a free Organization on Bitwarden Cloud at https://vault.bitwarden.com. This will be used for billing purposes even if self-hosted. Once the free Organization is created, let Bitwarden know and your plan will be upgraded to Enterprise status for you. This is required in order to receive the pricing you’ve been quoted. | Organization Owner | |
Step 3: Configure Enterprise Policies Best practice is to enable and configure all policies before user onboarding begins. Note: Any Policies should be enabled prior to user invitation. The 2FA policy being enabled after user invitation will cause a duplicate of efforts onboarding users | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 4: Add additional administrators Add Administrators to the Organization as needed. We also recommend configuring a second Owner for redundancy. | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 5: Create Collections for Administrators and users to share Collections are where secure items are located that are shared with Groups of users. | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 6: Create Groups for managing users Creating Groups allows easy assignment of Collections. Please note: If you decide to sync Groups and users from your Identity Provider or Directory Service, you may need to reconfigure user and Group assignments later. | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 7: Assign Collections to Groups to begin sharing passwords Assign Groups to Collections, making sure to test and demonstrate 'Read Only' and 'Hide Password' options. | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 8: Add items to test Collections Add items manually or import via CSV or JSON from another password management application. | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 9: Configure Login with SSO Create an Organization identifier Configure to work with SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 10: Verify your Domain Verify company and/or other email domains to allow your users to skip entering the Organization identifier during the Enterprise SSO process | Organization Owners + Admins, DNS Provider Admin | |
Step 11: Ask your users to disable their browser's built-in password manager Built-in password managers for browsers are more vulnerable to security threats and can interfere with the Bitwarden experience. | All users | |
Integration Engineer (Optional) Assistance in further structuring the organization's policies, collections and groups. | Organization Owners + Admins |
Step and Action | Key Person | Help Articles and Links |
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Step 1: Determine timeline for rollout to initial wave | Senior leadership / Security teams | |
Step 2: Create internal messaging / memo about Bitwarden rollout Check out Bitwarden tutorial videos on Youtube and the Bitwarden 101 video series in the Learning Center. | Internal training / managers | |
Step 3: Communicate to internal leaders about Password Management policies | Internal leaders / Security teams | |
Step 4: Download and login to Bitwarden Client Applications Download and implement Bitwarden client applications to confirm proper configuration for secure data sharing, and intended Enterprise Policies are working, and the onboarding function is successful.
Note: Self-hosted users will need to set the client's environment: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/change-client-environment/ | All users | |
Step 5: Configure Directory Connector or SCIM to invite users Begin the Directory Connector or SCIM integration provisioning to start inviting users to the organization Provide the script to bypass the user acceptance step that can be input within the CLI (optional). Review secure offboarding procedure | Organization Owners + Admins | |
Step 6: User Account Migration Instruct users how to migrate from their current password manager to Bitwarden. | All Users | |
For larger customers, Bitwarden offers ongoing meetings with Customer Success Engagement Managers and Bitwarden executives Assistance in any further deployment practices Q&A Sessions Check In Meetings | Organization Owners + Admins + Internal leaders / Security teams |
Step and Action | Key Person | Help Articles and Links |
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Ongoing: Billing support requests Contact Support for expedited billing support assistance | Organization Owners | |
Ongoing: Technical support requests Contact Support for expedited technical support assistance | All users | |
For larger customers, Bitwarden offers ongoing meetings with a Customer Success Engagement Manager and Bitwarden executives Regular meetings with Customer Success Engagement Manager Periodic meetings with Bitwarden executives and product team Review feedback and feature requests from first two months of deployment | Organization owners, admins, project managers, service desk teams, and end users of larger enterprise customers |
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