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Blogs/Forum related to UC developer platform and UCMA

adarshk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:41:00 GMT

As UC platform is gaining momentum among developers, here are some resources about the blogs/forums related to UC platform in general. They also contain lot of information in particular about writing UCMA 2.0 applications.

Unified Communications Development blog : http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/michael_greenlee/default.aspx

OCS R2 Server Side Application Development (SDK)s - UC forum to post questions : https://ucforums.microsoft.com/forums/361.aspx

A website dedicated to UC developers http://gotuc.net/default.aspx

Office Communication Server 2007 R2 launch and UCMA 2.0 SDK

adarshk — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:13:00 GMT

I was waiting since long time for the launch event of OCS-2007, finally the launch day is arrived. Tomorrow 9:30 am you can join the virtual launch event.

http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/r2-virtual-launch/event/

I am specifically excited to tell about new richer version of UCMA 2.0 SDKs, which we were working since last one year. Now developers are empowered to build number of middle tier scenarios like custom automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, gateway scenarios, enhanced presence based communications etc. We do now have SIP based signaling protocol stack, media stack and speech engine containing speech recognition and speech synthesis.

In next few days I would be writing about SIP signaling pieces of UCMA sdk, at the high level you can see following features

- ServerPlatform with TLS connectivity and in-built connection management,

- Fully baked endpoint API, which supports trusted ApplicationEndpoint and regular UserEndpoint,

- Better Presence publication and subscribe APIs, which abstract previous SipSubscription class to LocalOwnerPresence and RemotePresence classes,

- ContactGroupServices class exposes Contact/Group management APIs ,

- Multiparty, multimodal Conversation model, which enables multi-modal, multi-party conversation,

- Conversation escalation, where simple 2 party call could be escalated to multiparty conference and add new madality in existing conversation,

- ConferenceManagementServices class exposes API to schedule, modify, schedule conference,

- In built support for Audio (AudioVideoCall) and IM (InstantMessagingCall), all SDP negotiation is handled under the cover,

- In addition to number of How-to samples, a fully working sample for ACD (skill based automatic call distribution)

- ClientPlatform to simulate client scenarios for testing purposes

I am looking forward to write more details about these and waiting to see exciting scenarios built using UCMA.

Following are the download pointer to download UCMA SDK for reference

UCMA 2.0 SDK - 32 bit = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=140790

UCMA 2.0 SDK - 64 bit = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=139195

Communicator Web Access AJAX Service SDK Released!!

adarshk — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:20:00 GMT

If you are looking for adding cool instant messaging and presence functionality to your web applications or simple C# applications, try out Communicator Web Access AJAX Service SDK, it already includes the sample code to get started. I will also keep posting quick code snippets here.

Quick Info from the SDK:

Communicator Web Access AJAX Service is the application programming interface for Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access. Application developers can use it to create Communicator-compatible clients that allow users to manage and share presence information, to manage contacts and groups, to send and receive instant messages, and to search for users within an enterprise. Such clients can be a browser-based Web application (e.g., an ASP or ASP.NET application) or a standalone network application (e.g., a .NET executable). The client applications can be written in a wide range of programming languages including JavaScript, C#, Perl, C/C++, and the Visual Basic development system. Because the Communicator Web Access AJAX Service is based on the flexible AJAX programming model, the client applications are not limited to running on Microsoft Windows operating systems and can readily be deployed to desktop, laptop, or other devices.

Download Link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A839967B-680F-41E6-99B4-F020319BBD88&displaylang=en

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Office Communicator Web Access is RTM

adarshk — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:35:00 GMT

Finally the official RTM day for Communicator Web Access (CWA) is arrived, its pretty cool to watch the real time presence and IM to your contacts from web based application. For me it was very exciting to deliver my first RTC product in hands of the customer.

Its pretty cool application demonstrating the power of AJAX and it is 100% managed application build on .net frameworks 2.0. Ofcourse it also uses the power of my favourite System.Net classes of .net frameworks. UI is pretty much same as familiar office communicator 2005. It is useful for anyone working remotely or non windows machine. For Microsoft people it is already deployed (check => https im dot microsoft dot com), I found it very useful for communication, when I am sitting at home and not connected to my office machine.

To get more information and FAQ you can read Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access Overview

If you are looking for download check the Microsoft download center - Communicator Web Access download

One comment I can not resist to mention about UI, it is so much similar to office communicator 2005 :) that one of my friend even asked "How did it launch the office communicator on my machine and would it work on a machine with no office communicator installed." Only later he realize that it is browser window not the office communicator application.

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Network programming to real time collaboration

adarshk — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:44:00 GMT

Its long time since I had posted on my blog. I am coming back and will start posting regularly. One of the reason was I moved to the new feature area known as "Real Time Collaboration". You might have seen the release of Live communication server and office communicator release recently. Very soon our team would be releasing the web based version of communicator. All these are very exciting, cool part of web version is it is completely managed code and in the bottom of networking stack it uses the System.Net.

I will continued to post on Network Programming and would add topics on Real time collaboration and SIP in feature areas.