Filtering instant messages with the Lync Server SDK
Posted: November 10th, 2012 | Author: Michael | Filed under: Lync Development | Tags: filtering, IM, instant message, Lync Server 2010 SDK, Lync Server SDK, Managed SIP Application, Managed SIP Application API | 3 Comments »Recently I was answering a question about filtering instant messages between Lync users, and I decided that this would make a good topic for a post. It’s a fairly common use case, and one that is not too easy to implement because it requires the arcane and mysterious Lync Server SDK, which is written in hieroglyphics and can only be used by the light of a full moon.
Okay, that last part isn’t true, but it is true that the Lync Server SDK is one of the least well-known and most challenging APIs in the Lync development platform. It consists of two components, the Microsoft SIP Processing Language, a.k.a. MSPL, and the Managed SIP Application API. The latter of these is the one we’ll need to use to filter instant messages. Continue reading “Filtering instant messages with the Lync Server SDK” »