# Microsoft Sign-In

Sign up or sign in with your Microsoft account instead of creating a password. Sistava reads your Microsoft account's name, email, and profile photo to set up your account, and your Profile page shows Microsoft as your connected sign-in method. Because Microsoft has already confirmed the address belongs to you, the account counts as verified from the start and your employees can begin working straight away. Google sign-in and an ordinary email and password are the other two ways in.

Sistava supports signing up and signing in with a Microsoft account, alongside Google and email and password. On the sign-in page, choose Continue with Microsoft, approve the request in Microsoft's own consent screen, and Sistava creates or logs into your account without asking you to invent or remember a separate password.

The first time you sign up this way, Sistava pulls your name, email address, and profile photo from your Microsoft account so your workspace profile is ready immediately. Your Profile page (top-right profile icon) shows a badge for the provider you used to sign up, so you always know how your account authenticates.

The difference from email sign-up is where the password lives. An account created through Microsoft has no Sistava password until you deliberately set one using Forgot password; your Microsoft account is the thing that has to stay secure. This also means one less credential to manage: if your organization already issues Microsoft accounts to your team, each person can start a workspace without generating and storing a new password anywhere.

Your sign-in method is tied to your personal account, not to any one workspace. If you belong to several workspaces, the same Microsoft sign-in gets you into all of them; switching workspaces never asks you to re-authenticate.

There is one practical side effect worth knowing about. Because Microsoft has already confirmed you control the address, an account created this way is verified the moment it exists, so your employees can start working immediately instead of waiting on a confirmation email. It also keeps two things cleanly apart: how you get into Sistava, and what an employee is allowed to touch. Signing in with Microsoft grants no access to your mail, calendar, or files, and if you later want an employee working with any of those, you connect that tool to that employee on purpose, as its own decision.

## What Sistava Reads From Your Microsoft Account

Sistava only reads what it needs to create your profile: your display name, your email address, and, when available, your profile photo. It does not read your Microsoft mailbox, calendar, files, or Teams messages through this sign-in flow, this is strictly an identity and login connection, separate from any Microsoft tools you might connect to an employee later.

Your email address from Microsoft becomes your Sistava login identity, so the same rules about one account per email still apply. If that email already has a Sistava account from a different sign-in method, Sistava links the sign-in rather than creating a duplicate.

## Where To Check Or Change It

Open the profile icon in the top-right corner, then Profile. The page shows the provider your account signed up with, whether that is email, Google, or Microsoft, so support and you both know how the account authenticates without guessing.

An account that started with Microsoft sign-in has no password until you explicitly create one. Use Forgot password from the sign-in page at any point to add a password alongside your existing Microsoft sign-in, useful if you ever need a fallback that does not depend on Microsoft being reachable.

## Signing In When You Already Have An Account

If your email address already has a Sistava account, choosing Continue with Microsoft signs you into that same account rather than creating a second one, as long as Microsoft confirms the address belongs to you. That confirmation is the whole point: it is what stops someone claiming an address they do not own by signing up first and waiting for the real owner to arrive.

Your profile photo is pulled once, at first sign-up, and only to fill an empty picture. Replace it from Profile whenever you like and Sistava keeps your version. If Microsoft happens to be slow or unreachable in that moment, your account is still created normally and the photo simply stays empty until you set one.

## How It Works

**Microsoft handles the login, Sistava handles the rest**

Choosing Continue with Microsoft sends you to Microsoft's own login and consent page. You approve the request there, Microsoft hands Sistava a verified identity token, and Sistava never sees or stores your Microsoft password.

On first sign-up, Sistava uses that token to read your basic profile: display name, email address, and profile photo, then creates your Sistava account and workspace from those details. On every later visit, the same flow simply confirms who you are and signs you in.

Because the account has no Sistava password by default, changing how you sign in later means either continuing with Microsoft or using Forgot password to set one. Two-factor authentication, when you turn it on, applies on top of whichever sign-in method you use.

## Use Cases

### Sign up in one click

Skip inventing and storing a new password. Approve the Microsoft consent screen once and your Sistava account and workspace are ready with your name and photo already filled in.

### Roll out to a team already on Microsoft 365

If your organization already issues everyone a Microsoft account, each teammate can start their own Sistava workspace using credentials they already have and already secure, without you distributing or resetting Sistava passwords.

### Reduce password sprawl

One less password to create, remember, and eventually rotate. Your account security rides on the same Microsoft login you already use for email and other work tools.

### Keep a second way in

Set a Sistava password once from Forgot password and you have a fallback route into the same account if your Microsoft login is ever unavailable. Both methods open the same workspace and the same work.

## Comparison

| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Signing up means inventing another password and finding somewhere safe to keep it. | Approve one Microsoft consent screen and the account exists, name and photo already set. |
| A new tool makes you wait on a confirmation email before anything can happen. | Microsoft already confirmed the address, so your employees can start working immediately. |
| Onboarding a team means handing out and resetting credentials one person at a time. | Everyone signs in with the Microsoft account your organization already issues and secures. |
| Months later nobody remembers which method they used to sign up. | The Profile page names the provider your account authenticates with, so nobody guesses. |

## FAQ

### Do I need a Sistava password if I sign up with Microsoft?

No. An account created through Microsoft sign-in has no password by default. You can set one later from the sign-in page using Forgot password if you want a fallback login option.

### What information does Sistava get from my Microsoft account?

Just your display name, email address, and profile photo, used to set up your account on first sign-up. Sistava does not access your mailbox, calendar, or files through this sign-in connection.

### Can I switch from email sign-in to Microsoft, or the other way around?

Your account is identified by its email address, so signing in with Microsoft using the same email connects to the same account. Your Profile page always shows which provider the account originally signed up with.

### Does Microsoft sign-in work across all my workspaces?

Yes. Sign-in method is tied to your personal account, not to a single workspace, so the same Microsoft sign-in gets you into every workspace you belong to.

### Is two-factor authentication available with Microsoft sign-in?

Yes. Two-factor authentication is a separate, additional step you can turn on from Profile, and it applies regardless of whether you sign in with Microsoft, Google, or email and password.

### Do I still have to verify my email if I sign up with Microsoft?

No. Signing in through Microsoft already proves you control that address, so the Sistava account is treated as verified from the start and your AI employees can begin working right away. Accounts created with an email address and a password receive a confirmation email instead.

### What happens if I lose access to my Microsoft account?

Use Forgot password on the Sistava sign-in page to set a password for the same email address, which gives you a second way into the same account that does not depend on Microsoft. Setting that up before you need it is the safer order, since the reset link is sent to the email address on the account.

## Where Microsoft Sign-In fits

Microsoft Sign-In is part of How you run the account itself.

Sign in the way your company already does, decide who can do what, and keep the money side legible. Credits, plans, invoices, referrals, and the controls that decide who reaches which part of the workspace.

- [How you run the account itself](/en/features/account): Your workspace, your money, your people.

## Read the guide

- [Guide: Microsoft Sign-In](/en/guide/account/organization)

## More in Account & Billing

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- [Lifetime Credits (Free)](/en/features/account/lifetime_credits_free): Pick the Free plan and your workspace gets 2,000 credits in one grant, no card required. Those credits never reset and never expire; you spend them at your own pace across chat, tools, and media generation until they run out. It is a one-time bucket, not a monthly allowance, so it is meant for trying the platform before you commit to a paid plan.
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- [Google Sign-In](/en/features/account/oauth_google): Sign in to Sistava with your Google account instead of creating a separate password. Choose Sign up with Google on the signup page and your workspace is ready after one approval, with your name and photo carried over automatically from Google. Because Google has already confirmed your email address, there is no verification email to chase before your AI employees can start working.
- [Workspace Roles](/en/features/account/tenant_roles): Every workspace you create has an Owner, Admin, and Collaborator role, each with a fixed set of permissions over billing, the collaborator roster, and resource access. Owners can grant a non-owner collaborator extra access, or take some away, without changing their overall role. A Roles page shows your own effective access and the full permission matrix so nobody has to guess what they can do.
- [User Profile Picture](/en/features/account/user_profile_avatar): Upload a photo for your account so your teammates and AI employees see a real picture of you instead of initials. It shows up in chat, comments, and the collaborator list across every workspace you belong to. If you signed up with Google or Microsoft, your picture is pulled in automatically the first time you sign in, and you can replace it any time.
- [Two-Factor Authentication](/en/features/account/two_factor_auth): Add a second sign-in step to your Sistava account using any TOTP authenticator app, like Google Authenticator or Authy. Once enabled, a code from your app is required in addition to your password, so a leaked or guessed password alone is not enough to get in. Turning it on immediately signs out every other active session, so a session created before you enabled it cannot be used to bypass it.
- [Feedback Board](/en/features/account/feedback_board): Submit bug reports, feature requests, improvements, and questions from inside the app, then vote on what other users have asked for. Every item lands on one Community Board visible to the whole platform, sorted by vote count, so the most-wanted ideas surface for the team automatically.

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