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Sign-in failed Error code: interaction_required
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Kevin Nakahara
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I signed up for an Azure free account with my private Microsoft account, during signing in I got this error:
Sign-in failed
Error code: interaction_required
Error message: interaction_required: interaction_required: AADSTS5000225: This tenant has been blocked due to inactivity. To learn more about tenant lifecycle policies, see https://aka.ms/TenantLifecycle Trace ID: a059f2d4-5b56-4ca0-b1c1-eb1fc7e28e01 Correlation ID: 019b9c82-22a6-7cf4-afda-73a81ce5e90d Timestamp: 2026-01-08 07:28:53Z
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Shubham Sharma 17,930 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator2026-01-08T08:00:13.9633333+00:00 Hello Kevin Nakahara
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 following details for further assistance via private message:
- Tenant ID
- Correlation ID from the login failure
- Timestamp of the failure
- Subscription ID
- Contact phone number (add +Country code)
- Contact email address
- Email address (affected account)
- Country
- TimeZone
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Shubham Sharma 17,930 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2026-01-15T04:47:31.7+00:00 Hello Kevin Nakahara
Could you please provide an update into private message?
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Catherine Kyalo 3,180 Reputation points Microsoft Employee2026-04-16T16:49:32.3633333+00:00 If the Tenant Is Already Deleted (Past 20 Days) it cannot be recovered. You would need to cCreate a new Microsoft Entra tenant
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