Live Meeting Service Developers Blog

The updated API guide for Service Release 3 of the 2007 Live Meeting Service is now available via the Live Meeting Developer Center on MSDN. The most substantial change in this release is the addition of Easy Assist. Easy Assist is a simple and powerful...

For those of you who are not familiar with it, the Live Meeting service portal is a component LM customers can deploy to allow SSO against the an on-premise Active Directory. This is an incredibly helpful tool for simplifying administration of the service...

I’ll be speaking about the XML-API’s this summer at the TechEd developer conference. So if you are interested in learning more about the API’s, or developing MS unified communications applications in general, check it out. Also, if you already signed...

A new version of the Live Meeting API developers Guide is in the process of being released. In it we have added a new section to highlight best practices for writing applications that can handle minor changes to the API’s that may be introduced in service...

If you have ever heard me present on the XML-API and wished you had access to the xml snippets that I used as examples, today is your lucky day. Attached is a doc showing the requests and response I use to demonstrate common XML-API scenarios in those...

I just got back from the holiday break so this notice is a little late, but I will be presenting a webcast on using the LiveMeeting XML-API's. Here is the description of the talk. The Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service XML APIs provide robust and...

The 2007 update of the LiveMeeting service began its rollout to production last week. At this point all new LiveMeeting conference centers will be provisioned on the new version. This includes trial cc’s, so if you’ve been wondering what LiveMeeting is...

Just wanted to remind you all that the Live Meeting service is in for a major upgrade. It’s a very exciting new release with big improvements to help make your meetings more engaging and productive. As an XML API developer you need to be prepared...

Anyone is going to this years Tech Ed in Orlando should make sure to stop by the Unified Communication Technical Learning Center to check out Live Meeting 2007 and all of the other great UC products. Along with spending some time at the demo booths...

Just wanted to let the community at large know that the 1.0 version of the XML-API's will be deprecated in LiveMeeting 2007. Version 3 and 4 will continue to be supported.

Some of you have noticed that when creating a meeting with the XML-API’s the LiveMeeting service does not send out meeting invitations. People often are confused by the existence of two meeting options, audienceListEmail and presenterListEmail...

The Live Meeting Service is localized for 8 languages including English. There are many strings that will only accept ASCII characters (like password and userID). However, there are other strings that will accept non-ASCII characters. The Live Meeting...

Downloading a recording from the live meeting service requires two steps. This first is an API call that fetches a url for a specific recording. For example the following XML snippet ... <PlaceWareConfCenter authUser="caller id" authPassword="caller...

If you are interested in learning more about Live Meeting, and the opportunities the Live Meeting API’s afford for integration and expansion of the service, take a look at this presentation. It gives a good overview of what is possible and is a good starting...

GetPostingURL is used to get the correct URL for a specific conference centers Live Meeting API processor. This call should be made at the start of each API session. Your conferences center's posting URL may change. So the result of this call must not...

I have recently taken over the role of program manager for the Live Meeting API’s, and this blog is my first step in an effort to improve the resources available to the Live Meeting developer community. My ultimate goal is to make it easier for you to...