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Options for handling spam calls
I feel like this is likely a question that comes up daily, but I promise I did search and I'm not finding anything that helps with the most common scenario where spam calls are coming in from differe...
Hello harleyburt,
welcome to the Microsoft community, My name is Yakubu Suleman I'll be happy to help you today;
I understand that you want to confirm if it is possible from the user level or from the Teams Admin level to block incoming calls based on the display name?
Based on research and based on the Microsoft document below, you can only block a specific incoming numbers or block all incoming calls to your tenant, it is not possible to block incoming calls based on the display name
Kindly see below Powershell to block incoming call
New-CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern -Name "BlockRange1" -Enabled $True -Description "Block Contoso" -Pattern "^\+?1312555\d{4}$"
New-CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern -Name "BlockNumber1" -Enabled $True -Description "Block Fabrikam" -Pattern "^\+?14125551234$"
Reference article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/block-inbound-calls
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welcome to the Microsoft community, My name is Yakubu Suleman I'll be happy to help you today;
I understand that you want to confirm if it is possible from the user level or from the Teams Admin level to block incoming calls based on the display name?
Based on research and based on the Microsoft document below, you can only block a specific incoming numbers or block all incoming calls to your tenant, it is not possible to block incoming calls based on the display name
Kindly see below Powershell to block incoming call
New-CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern -Name "BlockRange1" -Enabled $True -Description "Block Contoso" -Pattern "^\+?1312555\d{4}$"
New-CsInboundBlockedNumberPattern -Name "BlockNumber1" -Enabled $True -Description "Block Fabrikam" -Pattern "^\+?14125551234$"
Reference article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/block-inbound-calls
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Kind regards,