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How to Unblock Azure Tenant - Error code: AADSTS5000225
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I am trying to regain access to my Azure tenant and not having much luck. How do I unblock my azure account when getting this error?
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Error code: AADSTS5000225
Error message: AADSTS5000225: This tenant has been blocked due to inactivity.
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Sridevi Machavarapu 7,940 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2025-12-05T08:13:20.9633333+00:00 Hello H3S,
To assist you further, we need some additional information. As this involves Personally Identifiable Information (PII), please share the following details with us via private message only (do not post publicly):
- Tenant ID or affected user's mail
- Correlation ID from the recent failure
- Timestamp from the recent failure
- Business impact and justification for restoring the tenant, and an explanation of the impact if the tenant cannot be restored
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