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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

Doing good things while working at MS

Working at Microsoft is really interesting in that I often see my work being used throughout the world. It was nice seeing the press about the Unified Communications launch, knowing that I helped participate. Executives here like to mention that we are Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:28 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Thoughts on testing speech applications

Personally, I feel one area that we did not address overly well in Speech Server is allowing developers to test their speech applications. Granted, this seems to be missing from many platforms these days but I think in the case of speech applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:56 AM by jcalev | 2 Comments

UCMA ships!

UCMA has finally shipped! For those of you who would like to download it, the full download is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b30306e4-7dc1-44d2-9a68-9b4a6fc5c2df If you would like to see a webcast about UCMA, see the following. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:25 PM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Unified Communications Client API shipped!

I just received an e-mail that the Unified Communications Client API has just shipped and is now available externally at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82c468da-3294-4ca9-bbcc-d455cfd06af2&displaylang=en This API has two Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 2:32 PM by jcalev | 7 Comments

Some common UCMA questions

Every once in awhile (though somewhat more commonly now) I receive an e-mail or IM asking a question on the UCMA API. I decided to post the answers to some of the most common questions. Where can I download UCMA? - The release candidate is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b30306e4-7dc1-44d2-9a68-9b4a6fc5c2df&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:50 PM by jcalev | 2 Comments

Connection managers and endpoint types in UCMA

I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you who use UCMA do not truly know when one should use SipPeerToPeerEndpoint vs SipEndpoint and when one should use RealTimeClientConnectionManager vs one of the RealTimeServerConnectionManagers. In this post I Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 11:35 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

What it's like so far on the OCS core team

Some time ago I wrote about how I moved from the Speech Server team to the OCS core team. Now that I have been on the team for some time, I thought I'd give random thoughts about my perceptions thus far to those on the outside. First, it is a much larger Read More...
Posted Monday, September 17, 2007 11:40 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

Welcome Parlano!

OK, for those of you who follow Microsoft news this will be old news to you, but upon getting back from Israel and catching up on e-mail I read the announcement that we will acquire Parlano. For more info on this, you can read the brief on Parlano's site Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:55 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

Developing applications for OCS - where do I start?

In a recent post, I presented an overview of all of the different APIs available in Office Communications Server 2007. The goal of that post was to help direct developers who want to know where to start. From that post I received some feedback that this Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 10:14 AM by jcalev | 7 Comments

An overview of the APIs in Office Communications Server 2007

Over time I have discussed all of the different APIs available to you in order to create Office Communications Server 2007 APIs. Today I thought I would do an overview of what's available and when you would use each one. Office Communicator API Example: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:24 AM by jcalev | 5 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

So what is the Unified Communications Client API?

In my UCMA blog series, I mentioned a client side API called the 'Unified Communications Client API' (UCCA). In the comments, I had several questions about what this is and how to use it. Recently, I started looking at this API in more depth and, while Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 9:56 AM by jcalev | 3 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
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