Introduction

The GotUC developer sandbox is a fully functioning Office Communications Server environment with Microsoft Exchange 2010. If you are a registered user you will be able to use Office Communicator client to sign-in and have IM, Video and Voice conversations with other members in additions to your Automated BOT applications.

The environment is merely for testing and can be used to quickly develop and deploy unified communications applications into the GotUC cloud. You can test a proof of concept or perform a customer demo without having to have your own OCS infrastructure in place.

Getting Started

To develop applications using the UCMA 2.0 SDK you will need the following items installed on your developer PC.

· Visual Studio 2008 SP1

· .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

· UCMA 2.0 SDK (32bit or 64 bit)

Download UCMA 2.0 (32 Bit)

Download UCMA 2.0 (64 Bit)

· Office Communicator Client

In order to use the developer sandbox you must register for an account at http://www.gotuc.net once registered you can click on the Developer Sandbox tab and register for developer access.

Step 1 – Sign-on to http://www.gotuc.net and click the Developer Sandbox tab.

Step 2 – Click Register for developer access.

Step 3 – Complete the form and you will receive your account in 1-2 business days.

You will receive two Accounts one to logon to Office Communicator and the other can be used by your application. Once your application is running you simply have an IM or voice conversation with the application sip address provided.

Office  Communicator Options

If you don’t already have Office Communicator installed please install a licensed version or one of the trial versions available for download.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial Download

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Trial Download

It is recommended that you use the newer R2 version, If you already have communicator installed you can use it by simply changing your sign-in address. If you need to run the non R2 version of Office Communicator 2007 this will work as well.

If you are unable to install Office communicator or you are unable to alter your sign-in address no worries you can use the communicator web access client by pointing your browser to:    
https://cwa.gotuc.net

Configuring  Office  Communicator

To configure Communicator select the menu in the top left and navigate to:
Connect > Change Sign-In Address…

Enter the sip address provided to you in your welcome email in the field labeled Sign-in address.

Now click the advanced button and make sure your server settings are set to automatic. If you currently use Office Communicator for another network you can revert back to your original settings once finished. You can also federate your sip domain with gotuc.net so you could test your bots from your existing sip domain. This is explained in a blog post on gotuc.net.

Using Communicator Web Access
Office Communicator Web Access can be run using your web browser. Navigate to https://cwa.gotuc.net
Sign in using your credentials provided in your registration email. Make sure you supply the domain name before your userid for example: “gotuc\keith” enter your password and click sign in.

Once logged on you can add contacts and start conversations.

Accessing Exchange 2010
Your GotUC.net account gives you access to our Exchange 2010 server. You can access email using Outlook web access and also use Exchange web services in your applications for testing and development. You can send and receive email from your gotuc.net email address.

•    Outlook Web Access
•    Exchange Web Services
•    Unified Messaging (Available  in June 2009)

Logging into Outlook Web Access
To access your GotUC email account navigate to:
https://exchange.gotuc.net/owa

Logon to Exchange using the info you received in your welcome email. Once logged in you can send and receive email for testing applications. Email on this server is not backed up and should primarily be used for testing applications.

To access Exchange Web Services from Visual Studio you will need to add a service reference to:
https://exchange.gotuc.net/ews/services.wsdl
For writing applications using Exchange Web Services please read the Article
“Exchange Web Service for UC Developers” on http://www.gotuc.net

Please direct comments and questions to keith@gotuc.net