How To Assign Direct Routing Numbers for International Direct Routing with a Managed Gateway
Login into the Teams Admin Center as a 365 Global Administrator or Teams Administrator
On the left-hand side click on Users>Manage users
Search for the user that needs to have a Direct Routing Number Added and Click on the Display name
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Under the Account, tab click "Edit" next to General information
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Add the phone number to the "Assigned phone number" field in the format shown below with the 1 in front and then click Apply
To Remove the number just blank out the "Assigned phone number" then click Apply
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This message will pop up and then click "Wait"
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Click on "Policies" and then click "Edit" next to "Assigned policies"
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Scroll down to "Voice routing policy" and drop-down to select "CallTower Route (Region)" then click "Apply."
To remove the Voice routing policy drop-down select "Global" then click "Apply."
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PowerShell Cmdlets to remove numbers and assign numbers
You must connect to the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module using a 365 Global Administrator or Teams Administrator account.
To remove the number from the user
Remove-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -Identity username@domain.com -RemoveAll
Grant-CsOnlineVoiceRoutingPolicy -Identity username@domain.com -PolicyName "$null"
To add the number to the user
Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -Identity username@domain.com -PhoneNumber +441254825804 -PhoneNumberType DirectRouting
Grant-CsOnlineVoiceRoutingPolicy -Identity username@domain.com -PolicyName "CallTower Route - Region"
Note:
Region = EMEA, LATAM or APAC for US based numbers the region will not be there.
