Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert MS-102 Practice Question
A company uses a Microsoft Entra tenant that synchronizes on-premises identities by using Microsoft Entra Connect. A Conditional Access policy named Require MFA targets all users and all cloud apps and allows access only if multi-factor authentication (MFA) is satisfied. A user reports that when signing in from a Windows 7 computer that runs Outlook 2010, access is denied without any MFA prompt. You review the sign-in log and see the failure reason AADSTS50079: The user is required to use multi-factor authentication. What is the most likely cause of the failed sign-in?
The user is connecting with a legacy authentication client that cannot perform MFA, so the Conditional Access policy blocks the request.
Per-user MFA is set to Enforced on the account, which conflicts with the Conditional Access policy and denies access.
The user's password hash has not synchronized to Microsoft Entra ID, preventing the MFA prompt from being issued.
Self-service password reset (SSPR) is disabled for the user, so MFA registration cannot be completed during sign-in.
Error AADSTS50079 appears when Azure AD demands MFA but the client cannot complete the challenge. Outlook 2010 uses basic (legacy) authentication, which does not support modern authentication flows capable of presenting an MFA prompt. Because the Conditional Access policy requires MFA, Azure AD blocks the sign-in outright. The failure is therefore caused by the legacy authentication client, not by password-sync issues, SSPR settings, or per-user MFA states.
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