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.

Don’t forget your voice policy!

Posted: September 25th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: UCMA 3.0 | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Several different types of UCMA applications need to place calls to the PSTN via the Mediation Server: outbound dialers, click-to-call applications, auto-attendants, and so forth. At some point, you may deploy one of these applications to a new environment, having tested it extensively, only to be stopped in your tracks by an exception like the following when your application tries to place outbound PSTN calls:

Microsoft.Rtc.Signaling.FailureResponseException:A 403 (Forbidden) response was received from the network and the operation failed. See the exception details for more information. Continue reading “Don’t forget your voice policy!” »

Outbound calls from UCMA without Lync Server

Posted: June 15th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: UCMA 3.0 | Tags: , , , | 7 Comments »

In my past blog post on standalone UCMA applications, I described how to build a UCMA application that can answer calls totally independently of Lync Server. Since then, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about standalone UCMA applications, and I wanted to answer two of them in this post. The first is how to place outbound calls from a UCMA application that isn’t connected to Lync Server. The second is how to bypass Lync Server for certain calls from a UCMA application that is connected to Lync Server.

For both of these things, you can use an awesome, little-known UCMA class called ConnectionContext. Continue reading “Outbound calls from UCMA without Lync Server” »