diff --git a/recipes/mdspan/all/conanfile.py b/recipes/mdspan/all/conanfile.py
index 2e8201c6f1d4dc..89dfb6ebe7a29f 100644
--- a/recipes/mdspan/all/conanfile.py
+++ b/recipes/mdspan/all/conanfile.py
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ def _minimum_compilers_version(self):
             "apple-clang": "5.1"
         }
 
+    def _is_msvc(self, compiler_name):
+        return compiler_name == "Visual Studio"
+
+    # According to upstream issue https://github.com/kokkos/mdspan/issues/26 , the MSVC updates to STL has broke the build
+    # since MSVC 16.6; and seems it built successfully on MSVC 17
+    def _msvc_is_supported_version(self, version):
+        return version < "16.6" or version >= "17.0"
+
+
     def configure(self):
         if self.settings.compiler.get_safe("cppstd"):
             tools.check_min_cppstd(self, self._minimum_cpp_standard)
@@ -49,6 +58,11 @@ def configure(self):
                         self.name, self._minimum_cpp_standard,
                         self.settings.compiler,
                         self.settings.compiler.version))
+            if self._is_msvc(str(self.settings.compiler)) and not self._msvc_is_supported_version(tools.Version(self.settings.compiler.version)):
+                raise ConanInvalidConfiguration(
+                    "Unsupported MSVC version {} due to upstream bug. The supported MSVC versions are > 15.0 and < 16.6 or >= 17.0."
+                    "See upstream issue https://github.com/kokkos/mdspan/issues/26 for details.", tools.Version(self.settings.compiler.version))
+
 
     def source(self):
         tools.get(**self.conan_data["sources"][self.version], strip_root=True, destination=self._source_subfolder)