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Office Communications Server Resource Kit ships

OK, this may be old news to many of you out there, but the Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit just shipped. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but you can be sure I will. I hope to receive a free copy of it at an internal event next Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:15 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

How to track down the WMI error in OCS

There are some product architectures created here at Microsoft that I am marvelled at with their simplicity, ease of use, and power. Unfortunately, I do not find WMI to be one of those architectures. With hope, some day we will have a sane replacement Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:20 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

Where OCS finds data for WMI classes

In yesterday's post, I discussed how knowledge of where the WMI provider retrieves its data is important when querying it. Today I thought I would provide a list of the WMI classes and where the data comes from for each. If you perform a lot of WMI querying Read More...
Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 6:19 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Office Communications Server and WMI

As many of you are likely aware, Office Communications Server (and previous versions) make use of WMI for storing various pieces of data. You can find details of the WMI classes that currently ship with OCS 2007 here . While this gives helpful information Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:00 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Integrating presence into your applications

I have seen a lot of questions lately asking how one can add presence to a communications application. There are a number of ways to do this, but I don't think we have done a great job explaining what they are. First, and perhaps what has confused people Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 9:55 AM by jcalev | 6 Comments

More info about the answers for yesterday's quiz

The following is more information about why each answer is correct for the quiz I presented yesterday. If you have not already taken the quiz, please skip this blog entry and go to yesterday's, then come back to this entry for any explanations. 1) To Read More...
Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 9:16 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

An Office Communications Server 2007 Quiz

For a little fun today, I decided to put together a little test for those who think they know Office Communications Server. Think of this as a fun little exercise that will help you learn OCS and help me learn what topics to blog about in the future. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:53 AM by jcalev | 2 Comments

Extending Communicator through tabs

Perhaps the easiest way to extend the Communicator 2007 client is by adding extension tabs underneath the contacts section. I looked around the web and found several references that this is possible but nothing about how to do it. Recently at TechEd one Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:47 AM by jcalev | 3 Comments

Creating bots in UCMA - Part II - Using grammars instead of parsing

In our last bot post I wrote about creating a bot that accepts a message from Communicator and sends a response. The response logic was very crude. We simply looked for certain words in the message from the client and sent back an appropriate response. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:04 PM by jcalev | 0 Comments

Common questions from TechEd

After spending some time at our Unified Communications Server booth at TechEd, I decided to write the answers to some of the most common questions people had for those of you who did not have the opportunity to attend this year. What is the difference Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 6:04 AM by jcalev | 3 Comments

Hello from TechEd

I am currently at the TechEd conference and it has been a very rewarding experience so far. It's amazing to hear what everyone is using our product for - many of them ideas I had never thought of. It's also interesting learning about the other pieces Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:59 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

Using UCMA to create clients

I hope my recent blog series on the UCMA API was helpful for everyone. If you would like me to cover other details please let me know. In the near future I will continue to blog about applications for UCMA. However, I would like to point out the UCMA Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:59 PM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 16 - TimerWheel

Let’s say you are not sure a particular endpoint exists at a certain time, so you would like to continually retry at specific intervals or you need to refresh a connection at a certain interval. To help with this situation, the UCMA API provides the TimerWheel Read More...
Posted Monday, May 28, 2007 5:13 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Part15.zip

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 15 - Connection Pools

Today we will finally revisit our client and add a little bit of code to it while discussing connection pools. For those of you familiar with concepts such as thread pools, connection pools are similar in a number of ways. Connection pools apply only Read More...
Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 5:11 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Part11.zip

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 14 - the SERVICE message

Today we will cover a message type those of you more familiar with SIP may not know much about – the SERVICE request. Before writing this post, I attempted to research this message type on the Internet without success. Finally I just decided to look at Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:15 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Part11.zip
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