RM576607 - Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Unified routing - Use overflow actions to protect customer experience for direct inward calls

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Summary

Overflow for direct inward dialing leverages conversation orchestration to detect key direct inward dialing-related events—such as the representative being busy, offline, rejecting the call, or failing to answer—and apply administrator-defined fallback actions.

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Nov 6, 2026

Published Oct 23, 2026

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General Availability
Preview

Platforms

Web

Service

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)
Dynamics 365 Contact Center

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Launched
General Availability
Preview
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

Cloud

Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

Description

Overflow for direct inward dialing leverages conversation orchestration to detect key direct inward dialing-related events—such as the representative being busy, offline, rejecting the call, or failing to answer—and apply administrator-defined fallback actions.

Administrators configure natural language playbooks using conversation orchestration at the global or inbound profile level to specify the action to run when a direct inward dialed call can't be attended to or completed. The actions include offering a direct callback to the caller, sending them to voicemail, transferring the call to another queue or external number, or ending the call.

GA date: October CY2026

Preview date: June CY2026

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  1. Nov 6, 2026 · 11:04 PMLatest · v2

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