My tenant account has been blocked.

Question

I was trying to sign up for Azure services, and upon login I get a message indicating my tenant has been blocked due to inactivity. I previously had used this years ago, so the inactivity makes sense. How can I proceed from this point? There is no known payment issues to me, and I don't wish to recover any prior data, so that's not a concern.

Error for reference:

Error message: interaction_required: AADSTS5000225: This tenant has been blocked due to inactivity. To learn more about tenant lifecycle policies, see https://aka.ms/TenantLifecycle

Answer 1

Hello Thomas Hoffman

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A.

The error message you encountered indicates that your tenant has been inactive for over 200 days past the billing cycle, triggering Microsoft’s effort to remove inactive tenants. When a tenant remains inactive for this period, the OMS commerce system imposes a login block (AADSTS5000225). Twenty days after the login block is applied, the tenant is permanently deleted.

Tenant inaccessible due to inactivity

If you plan to unblock your inactive tenant, it’s essential that it has been blocked for less than 20 days. After the 20-day period, the tenant is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

If it has been less than 20 days since the block, please provide the requested details for further assistance via private message:- Note: If it's a test tenant, please re-create a new tenant for testing purposes.

QuickStart: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/create-new-tenant

Do let me know if you have any queries, we are happy to assist you further

Answer 2

Hi @Thomas Hoffman ,

if you get the error message "AADSTS5000225: This tenant has been blocked due to inactivity." please take a look here:

Tenant inaccessible due to inactivity

Administrators can request a tenant to be reactivated within 20 days of the tenant entering an inactive state. Tenants that remain in this state for longer than 20 days are deleted.

If you need to reactivate your tenant:

• The tenant administrator can reach out to Microsoft, see the global support phone numbers.
• Refrain from submitting another assistance request while your existing case is in process and until you receive a response with a decision on this case.

You can also try to sign in using the Tenant Id in the Azure Portal URL: https://portal.azure.com/<TenantId>

Instead of the Tenant Id login with the Tenant Name works as well: https://portal.azure.com/<yourTenantName>.onmicrosoft.com

If nothing works so far you can try this solution:

• Login to https://entra.microsoft.com/
• Go to Entra ID -> Overview, and click on Manage tenants
• Create a new Tenant and get its Domain name
• Login back to Azure portal and add the new Tenant domain name (or Tenant Organisation ID), like this: https://portal.azure.com/xxx.onmicrosoft.com
• From there you can open a ticket (if your are not a free user), or at least work with your new tenant.

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Andreas Baumgarten