While Speech Server is apart of Office Communications Server, the two do not rely on each and actually do not integrate with each other out of the box. However that doesn't mean it can not be done. There are two main scenarios which I am always asked...

If you are using PIC (Public IM Connectivity) in OCS, you can send SMS messages to any capable phone in North America, via AOL's SMS Gateway simply by sending a message to an E.164 normalized phone number. IE: +16128591899 and appending the AOL domain...

Recent Update to the Presence Controls: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25A27453-15FF-48AB-AF1B-692CD77AB510&displaylang=en I'm working on a small project which uses the Communicator Automation API. In fact I'm taking a...

I am planning a series of blog post s that will show you how to create UCMA WF applications that can answer the telephone with speech recognition and speech synthesis abilities. However before I do that I HAVE to explain the differences between UCMA and...

Side Note: I know I haven’t blogged much recently, but I’ve changed roles within Microsoft, been on parental leave and busy working with customers. However I am planning a series of post about creating UC solutions .. I get this question a lot, "Does...

Code & Binary are now released: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Communicator4Outlook

A few new code samples have been released on various UC APIs. I haven't checked them all our yet, but I can speak a little to the "Integrating Web Chat Functionality" as I know the guy who wrote it... The Web Chat Functionality sample shows you how...

UCMA v2.0 includes a great abstraction layer, Communication Workflows, based on the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). These workflows are great for those needing to great simple yet powerful UC enabled applications. The workflow activities themselves...

The term "Click to Call" is thrown around a bit to mean slightly different things. In this post I'm going to show you how to create a web based interface, in which end users can type their name and phone number and have your Speech Server (2007) application...

I've been working on the an Add in for Outlook, using VSTO and the Communicator Automation API, which allows you to view all of your contacts while it Outlook. Outlook already gives you presence and functionality to communicate with the people for the...

Download Code Sample In March of last year I started a CodePlex project which didn't get very far and I kind of left it. At that time Speech Server (2007) was still in Beta and I wanted to build an ACD for it, which I somewhat accomplished. If you...

Last week I learned something, well I learned many things but one that was particularly interesting. Lets say you wanted to do server side speech recognition but you don't want the transport to be SIP. This obviously eliminates using UCMA 2.0 as by default...

As promised I've released some code that shows you how to create a reusable application host that will run your UCMA 2.0 Workflow Applications. You can find the code, binaries and an initial "How To": http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ucmahost The...

Download Sample Code Ok let me say this for clarification. This isn't a "real" ACD. It isn't "real" because we aren't actually transferring the callers off the IVR. Part of the benefit of an ACD is that moves callers off your IVR to somewhere else...

The update for the "Red X" issue you may see in your workflow after loading VS 2008 on the same box is now available. This made my day! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D8B068B-3C45-4EEA-BBC8-C4A4C4201F60&displaylang=en

I was asked today how easy it would be to create a web control that would display a user's presence on their blog. My answer is it is pretty easy, which it is, but it isn't as intuitive as one might think. If you are familair with UC APIs at all your...

A Technical Preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros, WSRMacros, has just been released! Like the name suggest it allows you to create Macros for Vista's Speech Recogntion. You don't need to know anything about SAPI to work create a simple application...

Sign up for the OCS 2007 R2 Virtual Launch on Feburary 3rd. http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/virtualevent/languageselect.aspx And just to keep entertain until Feburary 3rd, here are some R2 launch teaser videos: http://www.youtube.com...

I was checking out the UC Developer Portal recently and It seems it is not up to date on the available Virtual Labs for UC Developers, as it only list 5. For a more up to date list, you can visit this URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/AdvancedSearch...

A very interesting article on using WPF to display presence by Erik Klimczak from Clarity Consulting. It goes more into the WPF side, than the actual presence, but you need to know how to make your presence bubbles look good too! I love the example of...

A lot of businesses want to add disclaimers to external communications. Using MSPL on the Edge servers we can create something to simply add this disclaimer to an IM Conversation. Since MSPL hasn't really changed from LCS to OCS, we can use the sample...

Michiel van Oudheusden from e-office, has taken the challenge to actually hook up the the WPF Presence bubble screensaver to Communicator to show presence of your contacts! http://unified-communications-development.blogspot.com/ The blog belongs...

News Article here: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081014/aqtu055.html?.v=76 This announcement allows me to start blogging about R2 development features. Expect many UCMA v2.0 blog posts soon!

One of the most common questions I get is: Can OCS do "Click to Chat"? The answer is not out of the box, but using the APIs you can build it. In this post I'm going to cover the theory, in Part II we'll get into some code. Items that need to be...

I blogged about these earlier and they have finally shipped. You can download them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fad62198-220c-4717-b044-829ae4f7c125&displaylang=en