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Microsoft Teams PowerShell Phone Number Assigning Cmdlet Change

Microsoft has sent out an announcement on PowerShell changes for setting and removing phone numbers in Microsoft Teams:

Changes coming to phone number assignment using Teams PowerShell Module cmdlets
MC316139 ยท Published 19 Jan 2022

In summary, these commands are being deprecated “The retirement is planned to begin in early April and be complete by mid-April.” :

Set-CsOnlineVoiceUser
Set-CsOnlineApplicationInstance
Set-CsOnlineVoiceApplicationInstance

and Set-CSUser can’t be used to allocate phone numbers either. I’d been allocating numbers with the Set-CsOnlineVoiceUser command. The replacement for this is:

Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment and Remove-CsPhoneNumberAssignment

They run under the MicrosoftTeams module for PowerShell, but you also need to make sure you have the latest version. If you don’t have a version that supports this new command, you’ll get the error:

Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment : The term 'Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

To update, run the command:

Update-module MicrosoftTeams 

Then try the above cmdlet again. If you’re feeling really brave, you can update all your modules with:

Update-module *

Disconnect or restart PowerShell or you’ll get problems running the new cmdlet if you had it connected while updating.

The new cmdlet Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment doesn’t work exactly the same way as the old cmdlets. Read the documentation for more details

Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -Identity [email protected] -PhoneNumber +61987654321 -PhoneNumberType CallingPlan

The options for -PhoneNumberType (required) are DirectRouting, CallingPlan and OperatorConnect.

I’d suggest testing and migrating soon, before you miss the April deadline of the command being dropped.