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UCWA by the numbers – #1 Autodiscovery
With most UCWA applications you have to start somewhere and where better to start than Autodiscovery (or AutoDiscovery). By contacting the Autodiscover service in your Lync Server topology, it is...
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UCWA by the numbers – #2 Authentication
After Autodiscovery the next step in UCWA is Authentication. In UCWA Authentication has a few possible routes based on grant type: urn:microsoft.rtc:windows – windows-based credentials password –...
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UCWA by the numbers – #3 Communication
After (with a small detour to makeMeAvailable) UCWA is ready for an important task, Communication and more specifically Conversation and Conferencing. I felt the need to combine discussion on the two...
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UCWA by the numbers – #4 Anonymous Meeting Join
It has been some time since the overview of Communication (Conversation/Conferencing) which gave information on some of the basic tasks: sendMessage, setIsTyping, stopMessaging, and addParticipant. One...
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UCWA and fun with .NET/Mono
I had some time to take a break from working on JavaScript/HTML and decided to revisit .NET languages to gauge how difficult it would be to create a basic UCWA application. My initial thoughts were to...
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UCWA & Deciphering multipart/batching with Fiddler
When I was first working with UCWA I had trouble processing Batch messages (multipart/batching) as I would be constantly coping each individual message from Fiddler and dumping it into a JSON parser to...
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UCWA – Messing with SignalR and NodeJS
I have been thinking about other transport mechanisms (other than iframe) that would be interesting to see working with UCWA and two immediately came to mind: SignalR and NodeJS. Each can be used to...
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UCWA by the numbers – #5 Re-join Conversations
I have been a bit lax on finding aspects of UCWA that could use a bit of demystification, but it is not to say that there are not things I do not understand rather that I have not spent time thinking...
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UCWA – Handling Hyperlinks and Other Mini-Updates
One quirky behavior of Lync users is that they will sometimes send other users hyperlinks and it seems rather straightforward in how handling should happen, but I wouldn’t be writing about it if that...
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I had a deeper look into Events planned, but I felt it would be easier to put together information on the latest release of the samples, UCWA March 2014 Samples. It has been a bit since the last update...
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