I’ve built a couple of developer focused FAQ’s to make it easier for developers to get started writing applications that leverage OCS and OC. You’ll find the one focused on OCS 2007 R2/OC 2007 R2 here . I’ve put together another one for Microsoft Communications Server “14” and Microsoft Communicator...

Use this FAQ to help you get started with the OCS 2007 R2 and OC 2007 R2 development. Please ping me with any additions, comments or feedback! Q: What can I build? A: On the client side you can integrate OC 2007 R2 features into your client applications (presence, contact list and click-to-call...

Scott remotely works @ Microsoft. To give himself a physical presence on campus, he’s used some off-the-shelf hardware nad the UC platform SDKs to build himself a physical proxy with integrated calendar via Exchange Web Services and presence/click-to-call using the OC SDK. Not only a fun/cool science...

Displaying the presence information for the local user or their contacts is a common scenario when adding Unified Communications features to your client applications. For example, after Office Communicator is installed, Outlook 2007 displays the presence of contacts on the To: and the From: line so the...

Archiving the contents of an IM conversation using the Office Communicator SDK is something that I get asked about pretty routinely.  For example, let’s say that you want to launch an IM call from your application using the OC SDK and archive that conversation to be retrieved later (displaying all...

When starting call from your application using the Office Communicator Automation API, it’s often helpful to send some IM text to provide some context for the call (often using data from your application).  For example, Outlook 2007 does this when you start a conversation using the IM and Call features...

Before I joined Microsoft back in 2000, if I could only attend one conference a year it would be the PDC.  The opportunity to get a firsthand look at the future of the Microsoft platform and provide feedback directly to the product teams just couldn’t be passed up.  Other conferences do a great...

Today Chris Schindler and I presented a session at the PDC, BB09 – Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange 2007: Platform Futures.  This is the first time we’ve discussed the new R2 platform SDKs and the new Exchange Web Services Managed API outside of the beta program and the first time...

Flight was on time(ish).  Hotel is close to the convention center.  All my hardware got here in one piece (though there’s actually like 14 pieces).  I’ve been running through my demos and everything is looking good.*   Are you ready for the PDC?  Got sessions and HOLs picked...

The PDC (10/26-10/30 in LA) is all about the future of the Microsoft Platform. So it’s appropriate that we’re going to be showing the next generation of OCS 2007, OC 2007 and the UC Platform SDKs for the first time at the PDC. Learn: We’ve got a lot to show in our sessions if you look under the Unified...

I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to catch some webcasts I'm delivering here in the next couple of weeks. We're going to cover a lot of the UC dev basics and take a deeper dive on a couple of APIs. Details and registration at the links below: 6/17 - Building Software on the Unified Communications...

Everyone that touches the UC products and SDK is heads down getting ready for TechEd 2008. It's going to be awesome. First, we've great breakout sessions to show you how to build communications features into your apps, like IM, voice and video. We've also got Interactive Theatre sessions where we...

Since I got into the software industry, I've always been looking for technology that has the ability to fundamentally affect the way that people work on a daily basis. The UC platform is a great example of that postive change potential and it's a big reason why I do what I do at Microsoft. Watch this...

I generally like any post that starts with "While waiting for Lost to start..." and ends up with something cool, but I especially like this post since it show one of the easy ways that you can extend OC 2007 to include customer functionality. http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/kevin_marshall/archive...

It would seem that I've finally come up for air... I know what you're thinking, nobody can hold their breath for *that* long... Anyway, I've got a back log of cool stuff to share over the next few weeks, starting with this demo we did at the Office Developer Confernce 2008 keynote given by Gurdeep...

TechEd Developers 2007 Europe is in Barcelona Spain on 11/5-11/9/2007 this year. I'm very excited about this year since we're going to have a total of 7 sessions focused on developing with the UC platform, including OC 2007 SDK, OCS 2007 SDK, UCCP, UCMA, CWA AJAX APIs and Speech Server. Sign up for...