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Masking Incoming Caller Numbers in Microsoft Teams
Hello everyone -
So we are in the Government Community Cloud (GCC) for O365 and would like to set up our tenant to mask the phone numbers for incoming callers in our meetings to protect privacy. I have seen that it can be set up to clock all of the numbers except for the last few digits. I have dug around and I dont see the clear cut method for doing that. I see how to mask our OUTGOING calls from our Teams environment but not incoming. Can you point us in the right direction?
4BobRandall ok, Bob - last reply, LOL!
Looks like this might be exactly what you need - rollout was pushed: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=67091
I was thinking you were trying to set it up in your PSTN online - check your admin message center in your tenant for more info: MC220415"Microsoft Teams: Enable tenant administrators to configure masking of PSTN participant phone numbers
For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we are providing the ability for tenant administrators to define how Audio Conferencing participants' phone numbers appear in the roster view for meetings scheduled within their organization: masked to external users, masked for everyone, or off (visible to everyone)."
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4BobRandall hi there- I believe the feature you are requesting is actually rolling out right now and can be managed with policies- "As an admin, you can use caller ID policies in Microsoft Teams to change or block the caller ID (also known as calling line ID). By default, the phone number of Teams users can be seen when they make a call to a PSTN phone and the phone number of PSTN callers can be seen when they call a Teams user. You can use caller ID policies to display an alternate phone number for Teams users in your organization or block an incoming number from being displayed."
Please note - Don't see this feature in the Microsoft Teams admin center yet? It's currently being rolled out and might not be available in your organization yet.
Here is more info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/caller-id-policies
I hope this was helpful 🙂Ethan Stern I see that as masking outgoing calls from Teams to PSTN. I am talking about masking the phone number for people who dial into Teams meetings so the other attendees dont see their whole phone number. They would only see the last three or so digits in the number. I have seen it work in other tenants.
4BobRandall ok, Bob - last reply, LOL!
Looks like this might be exactly what you need - rollout was pushed: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=67091
I was thinking you were trying to set it up in your PSTN online - check your admin message center in your tenant for more info: MC220415"Microsoft Teams: Enable tenant administrators to configure masking of PSTN participant phone numbers
For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we are providing the ability for tenant administrators to define how Audio Conferencing participants' phone numbers appear in the roster view for meetings scheduled within their organization: masked to external users, masked for everyone, or off (visible to everyone)."
