The Power of Lync and the Unified Communications Web API

The Unified Communications Web API is the key API of the Microsoft Lync platform. It was created four years ago to be ready for the mobile and web world, and eventually be the central interface to deployments on premises as well as online. This session explains the fundamentals of this API that is based on the principles of REST and Hypermedia. In the session we walk through the libraries provided on http://ucwa.lync.com as well as the object model for JavaScript applications (a.k.a. jLync) and show sample implementations of UCWA on platforms ranging from the low-end (like Raspberry Pi or Google Glass) to web applications (using JavaScript and HTML5), to mobile applications (using C#). We conclude the session with a 101 on troubleshooting and debugging of UCWA apps.