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I received this email yesterday. Another chance to maybe influence the future of OCS. This isn't developer related but I would love to see a MCITP exam for OCS. As a developer it helps to fully understand the whole picture. An exam will help prove your expertise. Let me know what you think. Microsoft...
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Some interesting new tools from Microsoft for OCS. UC How To The Microsoft Unified Communications “How-To” training tool is a Microsoft Silverlight™ 2 application that provides step-by-step instructions for common UC tasks. You can customize the How-To application to your company’s...
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what happens if you let UCMA clean your house The layer of abstraction that makes UCMA 2.0 such a powerful tool can also, once in a while, be dangerous. If we’re not careful enough, we can easily get the idea that the API will take care of everything for us: SIP messaging, media negotiation, presence...
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The UseRegistration property on the ApplicationEndpointSettings object is one of those critical details that you always forget, much the same way you always forget your checkbook or library card at home the one time you actually need it. UseRegistration determines whether an ApplicationEndpoint will...
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This long-awaited volume on Unified Communications development, which covers the Office Communicator Automation API and the Unified Communications Managed API (both Core and Workflow SDKs), has been released and is shipping. You can get your copy at Amazon.com, and check out some excerpts while you’re...
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Microsoft asking UC developers to take a quick survey to better get to know its developer audience, carried out by Frost and Sullivan. For example, what applications have been developed, what other communications tools besides Microsoft’s unified communications products (like Microsoft Office Communications...
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In Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Microsoft only supports the UC AJAX API in case you add a CWA Server of OCS 2007. The UC AJAX API will not be updated beyond the 2007 release, and programming directly the UC Managed API will be the recommended way to build reach applications. Yet if you want to...
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Today GotUC.net is proud to offer an opportunity for developers to start developing UC enabled applications, without having to overcome the hurdles of setting up Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta. If you join the GotUC.net Community and you promise...
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I am at TechEd this week, where we are announcing our new presence-powered real-time expert finder, Clarity Connect . I wanted to point out two books that are great resources if you are doing any kind of development with the Microsoft Unified Communications platform. The first is the Office Communications...
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If you’ve ever tried to escalate an AudioVideoCall to a conference, you will know that it isn’t the smooth, carefree experience that the words “conference escalation” call to mind. It has its pitfalls. Take a look at the following code: private void CreateCallAndEscalate() { ...
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Today, Microsoft r elease d to the Web the Agent Communications Panel for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. For those of you unfamiliar with this application , “the Agent Communications Panel for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is an application add-in to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. It works with Microsoft...
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You heard it first on GotUC! You can start evaluating Office Communications Server now with a set of pre-configured VHD s available for download from Microsoft. This is what we have all been waiting for so that we can start developing against R2. Having OCS R2 on a VHD will really help those of us who...
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The Internet can be a disturbing place. You may not expect that hundreds thousands of Internet delinquents are out to hijack your UCMA 2.0 application, but in the realm of Internet security, as with tipping your barber, the rule is always “better safe than sorry.” Accordingly, when you are...
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Well we have been live for a week now and interest is growing. I spent most of this week in Redmond at the Microsoft 2009 MVP Global Summit . I spent lots of time talking with other OCS MVPs and with friends at Microsoft about GotUC.Net. I got lots of good ideas and suggestions as well as built support...
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One of the many useful features of the second version of the Unified Communications Managed API is its capability to publish presence through managed code. Using the methods of the LocalOwnerPresence instance attached to each endpoint, you can publish presence information in the form of XML in the five...