Entries tagged with unified communications - Channel 9

Exchange 2010 and Exchange Web Services - What’s New Webcasts

Chris Mayo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:41:00 GMT

Exchange Web Services gives you programmatic access to the information and business logic in Exchange 2010. If you think about all the stuff you do in Outlook 2007 to manage your daily life (mail to communicate with friends and coworkers, calendar items to manage your day and tasks to track the things that you need to get done), all that information and business logic (think free/busy when scheduling a meeting) is provided by Exchange and accessible via the Exchange Web Services Managed API.

This is a quick video with Jason Henderson and David Claux of the EWS team to show what you can do with the new EWS Managed API and what’s new in Exchange 2010 for developers.

Check out the following web casts to learn more.

10/13/2009 - Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 1 of 6): Migrating Applications to Exchange Web Services

10/14/2009 - Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 2 of 6): A Deep Dive into Using Autodiscover Service in Exchange Web Services

10/15/2009 - Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 3 of 6): A Deep Dive into Impersonation and Delegation in Exchange Web Services

10/20/2009 - Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 4 of 6): A Deep Dive into Exchange Web Services Notifications (Push/Pull)

10/21/2009 - Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 5 of 6): A Deep Dive into the Exchange Web Services Managed API

10/22/2009 - Exchange Server 2010 Development (Part 6 of 6): Best Practices for Building Scalable Exchange Server Applications

Exchange Web Services Managed API: Unified Communications Development for Exchange

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:12 GMT

The new Exchange Web Services Managed API provides managed code access to Exchange, whether running on premises or in the cloud. Learn how this new Microsoft .NET API provides full access to Microsoft Exchange mail, calendaring, scheduling, contacts, eventing, synchronization, permissioning, and public folders programmatically using the Exchange Web Services protocol.

Jason Henderson
Jason is the Senior Lead Program Manager for the Exchange Web Services team. Jason has been a member of the Microsoft Exchange team for the last seven years working on mobile, web, and developer experiences. Jason earned a Master of Science degree in Computing and Software Systems from the University of Washginton and his BS from the University of Puget Sound.

Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Enabling Unified Communications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:11 GMT

Learn how UCMA 2.0 and Unified Communication Workflow Activities provide a powerful communications arsenal to build Presence, IM, and voice-enabled services that can be leveraged from any application.

Oscar Newkerk
David Ollason

Microsoft Office Communications Server and Exchange: Platform Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:22 GMT

Learn how applications and services can add presence, IM, VOIP, and Video using the Unified Communications Platform. Also, see the roadmap for the future of Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) products and the new UC Platform SDKs.

Chris Mayo
David Ollason

The Dynamics Duo talk about Dynamics CRM and SharePoint

Ben Riga — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:46:00 GMT

In this segment Girish and I talk about how Dynamics CRM integrates with SharePoint. We begin with a little guidance for where you might use one over the other and where they work well together. And they sure do go well together. “Separated at birth” is how I put it in the video. :) Girish’s demo shows a custom SharePoint page. Not many people know that SharePoint can be stylized using CSS to build sites that look nothing like plain vanilla SharePoint. This is a pretty good example of that.

We use a SharePoint List Web Part to pull data from CRM to show a list of CRM users and the hours from their time sheets. This was pulled directly from CRM using web services. We also show how could use that data to display a dashboard style gauge using Dundas Gauge for SharePoint. You can pull CRM data directly into SharePoint to build a dashboard. You can then pull that dashboard into the CRM web client (minus the SharePoint chrome). By pulling it into the web client it automatically shows up in the Outlook client. Speaking of Outlook; in the last segment we talked about customization but didn’t show the Outlook client so Girish gives us a quick tour of how that works also.

Each of the forms in CRM are URL-addressable. Girish puts that to good use in showing how you can pop a CRM form directly from within SharePoint. He also shows how CRM lights up automatically when you have Office Communicator installed leaving room for some interesting Unified Communication scenarios. We should probably do an episode on UC soon.

The segment wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t show some code. Girish built the list part using the Visual Studio Web Part project template. The code to pull in the time sheets into a list web part is about 10 lines of C#. The hardest part was doing the authentication. CRM provides a plug-able authentication mechanism and 3 different auth options out of the box. On-premise deployments will likely use Active Directory, while CRM Online uses Windows Live ID and finally if you’re deploying in a partner-hosted mode you’ll use form-based authentication. Girish shows how as an ISV you can build your application once and take all of those options into account. After that the code you write is portable across all the deployment options.