## Error message
```text
AADSTS50079: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must enroll in multi-factor authentication to access '[resource]'.
```

## TL;DR
The policy now requires MFA and the user has no usable method registered. Send the user to the My Sign-Ins page to register an authenticator app, or issue a temporary access pass in Entra ID so they can get in today and enroll afterward.

## Steps
1. Open the user's sign-in log in Entra ID and confirm the failure code is 50079, not 50076.
   Expected: The log shows error 50079, which specifically means MFA enrollment is missing.
2. Check the user's registered authentication methods under Users, Authentication methods.
   Expected: You see no phone, authenticator app, or FIDO2 key registered.
3. Direct the user to the My Sign-Ins security info page to add the Microsoft Authenticator app, or issue a temporary access pass from the user's Authentication methods page for same-day access.
   Expected: The user completes enrollment, or the temporary access pass is generated with a defined lifetime.
4. Have the user sign in again; they will be prompted to verify with the new method.
   Expected: Sign-in succeeds and no 50079 error appears.

## When to use
- The exact error code 50079 appears in the Entra sign-in log
- The user recently lost their phone or never set up MFA
- A new conditional access policy started requiring MFA registration

## When not to use
- The error code is 50076 (MFA challenge failed, different problem)
- The user already has methods registered but verification fails (check the method itself)
- The device is non-compliant and a compliance policy is the real blocker

## Why this happens
Entra ID distinguishes two states: enrolled in MFA (50076 failures are about a bad challenge) versus never enrolled at all (50079). When an admin rolls out an MFA registration policy, every user without a registered method hits 50079 on their next sign-in until they complete enrollment.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_yZjv8OV39TQh0rvFT7qdGA

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_TExe1kcnO5pEWfAUANSucw/versions/skv_7lW2zXGVfCtaJyAkemChmg>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_TExe1kcnO5pEWfAUANSucw>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_TExe1kcnO5pEWfAUANSucw/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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