Unable to assign a Teams Phone number to a brand new user account (Error: we can't save changes)

Publisher

Microsoft Tech Community (user discussion)

URL

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoftteams/unable-to-assign-a-teams-phone-number-to-a-brand-new-user-account-error-we-cant-/3070818

Published

2022-01-24

Updated

unknown

Accessed

2026-09-30

HTTP status

206

License

Tech Community user content; licence not verified; no-redistribution; short excerpts and locators only

Source notes citing this source

• A community thread reports a newly provisioned, licensed user for whom assignment failed in the Teams admin center with 'We can't save changes for the number right now. Try again later' and in PowerShell with a 'Bad Request' user-not-found error; the poster says Microsoft support completed the assignment after two to three days without disclosing a root cause. field report in context

Cite this source record

APA

WarmTransfer. (2022, January 24). Unable to assign a Teams Phone number to a brand new user account (Error: we can't save changes). WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/techcommunity-unable-assign-new-user

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-techcommunity-unable-assign-new-user,
  title  = {Unable to assign a Teams Phone number to a brand new user account (Error: we can't save changes)},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2022},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/techcommunity-unable-assign-new-user},
  note   = {Microsoft Tech Community (user discussion), accessed 2026-09-30}
}