UCMA 3.0 Sample Learning Project

Question

I am new to UCMA 3.0 (and new to Lync server as well) and want to get a feeling about how to talk to Lync 2010 server through UCMA. I want to have something quick and dirty, such as a step-by-step tutorial showing me how to set up the development environment, writing the least UCMA code to achieve a simple task, such as connect to the Lync server, get the list of all the users with their presence information, and print the results out to console. The purpose is to get a proof of concept about how UCMA works against Lync server.

I already have a Lync 2010 server setup and running with some testing users created, I also downloaded and installed UCMA 3.0 SDK on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine which also has Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with .NET 3.5 SP1. So, all hardware and software are ready.

Any advice, links, or even better direct step-by-step answers will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I recently posted an answer in a technet forum here that might help - sorry if you are the same person :)

Basically, it reads:

There is no single article that explains the entire process, as far as I know. You'll need to read around quite a bit.

There are no UCMA application templates in VS (there are for client-side development with the Lync SDK, but not for UCMA yet). In your console app, you'll just need to add a reference to C:\Program Files\Microsoft UCMA 3.0\SDK\Core\Bin\Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll.

You'll need to undertand the difference between User endpoints and Application endpoints, more info in the SDK documentation here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh347238.aspx (you'll need a User endpoint)

There is some information about fetching contacts and groups here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh347376.aspx

Deploying a UCMA app can be long-winded. The best place to start learning about this is in the SDK - the articles in this section from the SDK documentation should get you started: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh347291.aspx

Also, check out the sample applications in the SDK.