Pasting into an Online Voice Routing Policy from Word or another WYSIWYG editor can insert invisible characters that still affect route selection. Microsoft's fix is to remove the policy and recreate it by typing it or pasting from a plain-text editor.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Microsoft Teams Phone Direct Routing
Subsystem
voice-routing
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). Troubleshooting Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-ovrp-hidden-chars. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-ovrp-hidden-chars

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-ovrp-hidden-chars,
  title  = {Troubleshooting Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-ovrp-hidden-chars},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-ovrp-hidden-chars},
  note   = {Source note teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-ovrp-hidden-chars, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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