Account Settings

Synopsis

Each user manages their own account from the Account Settings page: profile details, display preferences, password, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and PowerShell sessions. These settings apply to the individual user only and are separate from Organization administration, which configures organization-wide policy.

Accessing Account Settings

1. Click your profile menu in the top right corner.
2. Select Account Settings.

The page is organized into five sections, listed on the left: Profile Settings, Preferences, Password, Authentication, and PowerShell sessions. Each setting is shown as a row with its current value and an Edit button; editing reveals the input, and Update saves the change while Cancel discards it.

Profile Settings

Field	Description
Email Address	The address used to sign in
Full Name	Your display name
Title	Your job title

Preferences

Personalize how the interface displays data:

Setting	Description
Display Language	Interface language
Timezone	Timezone applied to displayed timestamps
Date and Time Format	Format used for dates and times
Time Precision	Granularity of displayed time values
Display Theme	Light or dark interface theme

Password

The password row displays a masked value. Click Edit to change it by entering your Current Password, a New Password, and Confirm new password. The new password must contain at least 8 characters, one uppercase letter, one number, and one special character.

note

Changing your password signs you out of every other device and browser where you are logged in. The session you change it from stays active. It also ends every one of your PowerShell sessions, in every tenant.

When your organization uses Single Sign-On, the password cannot be changed: the row shows Single Sign-On enabled instead of an Edit button, because sign-in is handled by your identity provider.

Authentication

The Authentication section is where you manage your own multi-factor authentication (MFA) and, when your organization has set up Single Sign-On, whether you sign in through it. Organization-wide MFA enforcement and allowed methods are configured separately under Organization Settings.

The MFA row shows your current state — MFA enabled, MFA disabled, or MFA enforced. When MFA is enforced by your organization, the row displays MFA enforced and cannot be turned off.

Enabling MFA

1. On the MFA row, click Edit and turn the toggle on.
2. Under MFA Method, choose Email or TOTP (only methods allowed by your organization appear):
   • Email - Click Send to receive a one-time password at your email address, then enter it.
   • TOTP - Scan the displayed QR code with your authenticator app, or enter the shared secret manually, then enter the one-time password the app generates.
3. Click Verify and Update.

On success, an MFA setup completed dialog presents your backup codes. Save them with the copy control or download them as virtualmetric-backup-codes.txt, then click Close.

Changing the MFA Method

When MFA is enabled, an MFA Method row lets you switch between Email and TOTP. Selecting a new method requires completing verification for that method before the change takes effect.

Resetting Backup Codes

The Backup Codes row provides a Reset Codes action. Resetting generates a new set of codes and invalidates the previous set, so save the new codes when they are displayed.

Disabling MFA

When MFA is not enforced, turn the toggle off on the MFA row. A Disable Multi-Factor Authentication? dialog asks you to confirm; click Disable to remove your current MFA setup. You can enable MFA again at any time.

Single Sign-On

When your organization has Single Sign-On configured on a plan that includes it, a Single Sign-On row appears beside the MFA row, showing SSO enabled, SSO disabled, or SSO enforced.

Click Edit to reveal a toggle, then Update to save it. Turning it on switches your account to sign in through the identity provider and drops your password — the Password row then shows Single Sign-On enabled instead of an Edit button. Turning it off again, when SSO is not enforced, sends you a password-setup email, the same flow an administrator can trigger from your User Details page.

When your organization enforces SSO, the row reads SSO enforced with no Edit control, and an info tooltip: "Your organization requires Single Sign-On for signing in. Ask an admin to turn off enforcement if you need to sign in with a password instead."

The row does not appear when your organization has not configured SSO, or when SSO is not included in the plan. The organization owner never sees it, because the owner always signs in with a password.

PowerShell Sessions

The PowerShell sessions section lists your live sign-ins from the VirtualMetric PowerShell module and from Cloud Shell, in every tenant, newest first. Each session works in one tenant, as you. Revoke a session you do not recognize.

Column	Description
Client	VirtualMetric PowerShell or Cloud Shell, with the session's user agent beneath it
Tenant	The tenant the session works in
IP address	The address the session signed in from
Created	When the session was created
Last used	When the session last made a request, or Not used yet
Expires	When the session ends on its own

To end a session, open its row menu and select Revoke, then confirm. The session stops working at its next request. Signing in again starts a new session.

When you have no sessions, the section shows No PowerShell sessions, with a reminder that running Connect-VMetric in PowerShell or opening Cloud Shell creates one.

Every one of your PowerShell sessions also ends when your password is changed or reset, or your role is changed.