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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

PDC 2008 - Sessions for Unified Communications Platform

adarshk — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:35:00 GMT

Since long time I was waiting for this exciting moment, when we will be telling our customers about the new exciting rich developer platform for Unified Communications world. Which will allow new wide range of rich applications with build in communication features like Presence, Instant Messaging and Voice. In upcoming days, I would be writing in more detail about the new scenarios which are being enabled by our developer platform. If you are attending the PDC, following are the interesting PDC sessions you should consider to attend.

Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Enabling Unified Communications

Learn how UCMA 2.0 and Unified Communication Workflow Activities provide a powerful communications arsenal to build Presence, IM, and voice-enabled services that can be leveraged from any application.

Microsoft Office Communications Server and Exchange: Platform Futures

Learn how applications and services can add presence, IM, VOIP, and Video using the Unified Communications Platform. Also, see the roadmap for the future of Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) products and the new UC Platform SDKs.

Exchange Web Services Managed API: Unified Communications Development for Exchange

The new Exchange Web Services Managed API provides managed code access to Exchange, whether running on premises or in the cloud. Learn how this new Microsoft .NET API provides full access to Microsoft Exchange mail, calendaring, scheduling, contacts, eventing, synchronization, permissioning, and public folders programmatically using the Exchange Web Services protocol.

Developer forum for UCMA API

adarshk — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:47:00 GMT

If you are UCMA API user, then you would like the msdn developer forum specific to Unified Communications Managed SDK. You can post all your UCMA API related questions on this forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1891&SiteID=1

MSDN Webcast: UCMA API

adarshk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:35:00 GMT

In this webcast, we present the software development kit (SDK) for the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API (UCMA) version 1.0. The SDK includes a SIP-based endpoint API that can provide the flexibility and scalability required by advanced developers to build and integrate server applications, such as alert broadcasters, media control units, and instant messaging (IM) bots, into the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 infrastructure.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032343097&CountryCode=US

If you just started looking into UCMA API this webcast might be interesting for you. Its on-demand version is available on msdn site.

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Unified Communications Managed API 1.0 SDK Public Beta download pointer

adarshk — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:14:00 GMT

Hi,

This might be a good news to all of you who were searching for the download pointer for UCMA API and difficulty in finding it. Now you can download it without logging into msdn account.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1aaf0e4f-804c-4888-9c7c-81d7f7a6ddef&displaylang=en

I will start posting samples about API usage scenarios now.

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UC Managed API (UCMA) v1.0 beta available

adarshk — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:58:00 GMT

I was eagerly waiting since a long time to write about this exciting news, With the public annonucement of OCS 2007 beta, now we have a managed API known as UCMA is publicly available. Before coming out with official name UCMA, we were internally calling it as Ucp.net sdk. This SDK opens up the Sip signaling stack for managed application. As soon as it publishes on MSDN (expecting within a week or so), I will provide the download link and I will post more real scenarios and samples here.

Its a sip stack endpoint API, below is the list of some interesting features you will see in UCMA 1.0

a) Support for Sip Endpoint REGISTER to sip servers and SipPeerToPeerEndpoint,

b) Full SipSignalingSession to establish Sip dialog, it includes support for REDIRECT and REFER,

c) Utility classes for Sip header, Sip uri and SDP parsing,

d) Support for SIP SERVICE request, which is commonly used by OCS for publish operations,

e) Support for basic SIP Subscription dialog and Notification with automatic refresh,

f) Great scalability for middle tier application with MTLS server connection management,

In the coming weeks I will be posting simple code snippets and explain the usage scenarios for each of this feature.

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