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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
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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
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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 home page
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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
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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/profile?user=OCSR2Launch&view=video
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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
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I've been MIA for a couple months mainly for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to RTM, but I've also been busy at work. I promise I will get the the UCMA 2.0 Workflow post I promised, but those of you wanting to get a taste of UCMA now, check out Joe
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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
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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!
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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
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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 you
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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
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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.aspx?culture=en-US#culture=en-US;advanced=true;sortKey=;sortOrder=;pageEvent=false;startDate=7/21/2008;endDate=12/31/2008;kwdAny=;countryId=US;languageCode=en;audience=2;products=170;eventType=4;searchcontrol=yes;s=1
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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 to Joachim
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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
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