Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business have a rich set of .NET APIs which make it easy to extend the platform and integrate it with other applications. This blog helps explain how to use those APIs.

Michael Greenlee is a software development professional specializing in the Microsoft platform and particularly in Microsoft Lync development. He leads the Unified Communications practice area at Clarity Consulting.

Michael is a Microsoft MVP for Lync and has been working with the Office Communications Server and Lync extensibility platforms for most of the past five years. He is an expert on the Unified Communications Managed API, and co-authored Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010 for John Wiley & Sons.

Besides maintaining this blog on Unified Communications development, Michael spends a large part of his waking hours on planes, and occasionally writes sonnets.