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Tenant lifecycle errors on just created account
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Ken Cantrell
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I am a personal user attempting to try out Azure for the first time.
I just created my azure account and provided my cc#, using my personal outlook.com based email address.
As soon as I attempt to login (go to the azure portal) I get this message:
Sign-in failed
Error code: AADSTS5000225
Error message: AADSTS5000225: This tenant has been blocked due to inactivity. To learn more about tenant lifecycle policies, see https://aka.ms/TenantLifecycle Trace ID: ea9179cf-e5f1-4d4a-b49d-02e639381300 Correlation ID: 2592f27e-2bd0-4039-97f6-30b8add277da Timestamp: 2025-10-17 01:02:48Z
I don't understand why this is happening -- I've not tried to create an azure account in the last 20 days, so there should be no idle tenant.
the "home" help services won't touch azure
I can't create a commercial help ticket because I'm not a commercial user, I'm a personal user
Copilot suggested someone here may see this and be able to help me escalate. Please help!
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VEMULA SRISAI 13,990 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2025-10-19T06:40:03.5133333+00:00 Hello Ken Cantrell ,
Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A Forum.
The error message you’re seeing indicates that your tenant has been inactive for more than 200 days after the billing cycle, which triggered Microsoft’s automated process to remove inactive tenants. At this stage, the OMS commerce system places a login block with error AADSTS5000225. Twenty (20) days after this block is applied, the tenant is permanently deleted.
To restore access, the tenant must have been blocked for less than 20 days. After 30 days, the tenant is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.
We can attempt to reactivate your tenant if it has been blocked for less than 20 days. Please share the following details with us via private message so we can proceed with the reactivation:
Tenant ID or Domain Name
Contact phone number (include +Country code)
Affected Account Email address
Country
Time Zone
Correlation ID and Timestamp from a recent sign-in failure
Business impact and justification for restoring the tenant, and an explanation of the impact if the tenant cannot be restored
Once we have these details, we will review and proceed with your account reactivation.
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