08 · Emergency, LBR, survivability

Emergency calling is a design gate

A phone system that cannot reach emergency services is not ready, even if every other demo looks good.

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Learn it in 5 minutes

Treat emergency calling as a gate before go-live. Calling Plans in supported countries use Microsoft’s emergency service, and you still load locations. Direct Routing makes you, the SBC, and the carrier responsible for the call.

Do not test by placing a real emergency call. Use the carrier’s test process. Do not send emergency calls into a bot so they can be ‘handled.’ Know whether your recorder includes them, and follow the rule you were given.

Finish emergency location and a local route before go-live. Test with the carrier’s process, not a real emergency call.

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Repeated misses take a trunk out of service. The campus does not invent Microsoft's internal counter.
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Do this before the pilot becomes production. Counts in this drawing are teaching order, not customers.

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Worked example

Emergency is a gate. I will not demo a bot on the emergency number.

  1. Location Where the client is
  2. Route Local and boring
  3. Carrier Accepts the call
  4. Test Carrier’s process

If it fails: 999 matches the IVR workstream.

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Quiz

Which description of Dynamic emergency calling is accurate?

A colleague reports: A laptop on the VPN reports the HQ floor. Where do you start?

Which description of Civic address is accurate?

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Ecosystem

Glossary

  • Dynamic emergency calling Teams picks a civic address from the network location it can see: trusted IP, site, and subnet in the usual design. Config: Build the topology, assign addresses, and test from a known subnet. Fault: A laptop on the VPN reports the HQ floor.
  • Civic address The street address you validate for emergency calling. A dispatchable location is specific enough for responders. Config: Validate the address and tie subnets to places inside it. Fault: The PSAP gets a city and no building.
  • Trusted IP An address that means ‘this client is inside our network.’ It is how Teams decides the client is on a site you mapped. Config: List the real internet egress addresses, not the VPN pool, unless you mean to. Fault: Remote users inherit a building.
  • Emergency calling policy Controls notification and how the client looks up location. It is not the PSTN route. Config: Pair the policy with a routing policy and a tested number from the carrier. Fault: Security is notified for a test call and the route still left the country.

Sister technologies

Around the call: compliance recording, workforce management, emergency location, analytics, CRM screen pop, and an agent with a human escape. Each one has its own failure.

Config and troubleshooting

999 matches the IVR workstream.

Cross-platform bridges

CUCM

Cisco CUBE is one of the SBC families named in this lab’s certification lesson. A certified release can be the Direct Routing SBC between Unified CM and Teams.

The tenant still needs a verified domain on the SBC FQDN, and the user still needs Teams Phone. The studio translator does not open a live AXL session. Confirm the current certified release before you build.

Webex

Teams Phone and Webex Calling are separate clouds. This lab does not describe a feature that registers a Webex Calling user into a Teams tenant.

A number move is usually a carrier port, a certified SBC, or a meetings interop product. Confirm before relying.

UCCE

Unified CCE stays the ACD until you migrate it. Microsoft’s contact-center articles name Connect, Extend, and Unify. They do not name a UCCE connector in the notes this lab cites.

Voice into Teams is still Direct Routing or Operator Connect. The routing script stays on the contact-center product you bought. Confirm the vendor’s current model. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-contact-center.

Future hooks

Copilot Studio, Azure Communication Services, and Graph are later tracks in this lab. Treat any uncited limit as confirm before relying.

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Sources and go deeper

Opened 2026-10. A row marked confirm did not open. Wikipedia is background. The Teams blog row is the community index.

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