When a Teams user forwards a call from a PSTN caller, the Direct Routing SIP proxy sends the caller a 181 Call Is Being Forwarded provisional response, and the forwarded INVITE's Request-URI carries a cause parameter.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Teams Phone Direct Routing
Subsystem
call forwarding
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). SIP call forwarding and routing loops: source note sip-forwarding-loops-teams-dr-181. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-forwarding-loops-teams-dr-181

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-forwarding-loops-teams-dr-181,
  title  = {SIP call forwarding and routing loops: source note sip-forwarding-loops-teams-dr-181},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-forwarding-loops-teams-dr-181},
  note   = {Source note sip-forwarding-loops-teams-dr-181, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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