Joe Calev's WebLog
Posts and information about Microsoft Office Communications Server and sometimes off topic posts.
Debugging Lync Delegation
Why is my admin not able to act as a delegate? How can I check whether delegation is even setup?...
Date: 06/16/2014
Debugging address book issues with Debug-CsAddressBookReplication
As I explained in a previous post, the address book component of Lync underwent major changes in...
Date: 10/10/2012
Address Book changes for Lync 2013
For those of you familiar with the address book from previous versions of Lync, you will find the...
Date: 10/02/2012
Partitioning Lync Address Book using msRTCSIP-GroupingID
In certain large organizations, the need exists to not allow certain users to search for...
Date: 06/07/2012
How to enable last name, first searches in Lync Address Book
Over time, a few people have asked me why, given someone with a first name of Ziggy and a last name...
Date: 06/06/2012
How to create a new group and add contacts to it in UCMA
It is quite easy to add groups, add contacts, and enumerate both contacts and groups using UCMA’s...
Date: 06/04/2012
Sending a SUBSCRIBE message with headers
UCMA makes it quite easy to send a subscribe message and then add, remove, or retrieve contacts and...
Date: 06/01/2012
Why is UCMA telling me my session is not established when I add a contact?
Recently I found myself in the situation where I need to add a contact to a user using UCMA but did...
Date: 05/24/2012
Running UCMA 2.0 applications on Lync Server 2010
While the most ideal scenario is to only run UCMA 3.0 applications with Lync Server 2010, for many...
Date: 09/23/2010
The Complexity of Simple Urls
One of the many new features in Lync Server 2010 is a change to how meeting Urls are formatted. The...
Date: 09/22/2010
Why Get-CsTopology can be evil
Recently while performing a web search, I came across a blog that recommended that users read the...
Date: 09/20/2010
10 Ways to Become a Better Developer
Over the last number of years, I have learned the following practices that I believe are worth...
Date: 09/17/2010
Lync Server Topologies - on Sites Pools and Services
Today we will finally start delving into the topology document - well sort of. In the previous two...
Date: 09/16/2010
More about manageability changes in Lync Server 2010
In yesterday's post, I glossed over the small fact that pretty much every single line of...
Date: 09/15/2010
Lync Topologies - an introduction
With the release of the Lync Server 2010 RC yesterday, I am finally free to begin discussing all...
Date: 09/14/2010
We have a new name!
For those of you who haven't seen a blog from me in over a year, you may be happy to hear the...
Date: 09/13/2010
A great book for a greater cause
You probably know that I am into photography and I am a member of the Microsoft Photography Club....
Date: 09/30/2009
UCMA 2.0 - Part 1.6 Introduction to SDP
We are almost at the point where our Powershell commandlet will be useful, but first we need to...
Date: 11/12/2008
UCMA 2.0 - Part 1.5 Setting up a session
In our next iteration, we will add to our commandlet to create a signaling session. In essence we...
Date: 11/11/2008
UCMA 2.0 - Part 1.4 Signing in and signing out
It’s about time that we began writing some code and getting into the details of the API. To start...
Date: 11/10/2008
UCMA 2.0 - Part 1.3 Powershell and UCMA
Today, we will get started with coding UCMA applications. First though, I would like to cover again...
Date: 11/07/2008
UCMA 2.0 - Part 1.2 - Asynchronous pattern and threading model
Before you really start coding in UCMA 2.0, or even UCMA 1.0, it is extremely important that you...
Date: 11/06/2008
The "new" blog
In truth, this is now a new blog. I'm not sure what we will be covering in the next several months,...
Date: 11/04/2008
Ready for some new UCMA blogs?
At long last this blog is back up and running. Very soon (current goal is Wednesday), I will start a...
Date: 11/03/2008
So what's happening with this blog!?
Over the past several months I have come to realize that I needed to change the way I blog. The...
Date: 04/23/2008
Relatively, things aren't all that bad
It is pretty much impossible right now to not see the news and get a little depressed. While...
Date: 01/23/2008
Office Communications Server Resource Kit ships
OK, this may be old news to many of you out there, but the Office Communications Server 2007...
Date: 01/15/2008
All types of fun with marshaling!
There are several golden rules that I have learned over the last week while spending some time...
Date: 01/14/2008
Some tricks with service restart logic
Today I will venture outside the safe confines of Office Communications Server and discuss some...
Date: 01/10/2008
How to track down the WMI error in OCS
There are some product architectures created here at Microsoft that I am marvelled at with their...
Date: 01/09/2008
Doing good things while working at MS
Working at Microsoft is really interesting in that I often see my work being used throughout the...
Date: 01/08/2008
Announcing the new blogs!
Several days ago I mentioned that I will be splitting my blogs so that I can focus directly on...
Date: 01/07/2008
Where OCS finds data for WMI classes
In yesterday's post, I discussed how knowledge of where the WMI provider retrieves its data is...
Date: 01/04/2008
Office Communications Server and WMI
As many of you are likely aware, Office Communications Server (and previous versions) make use of...
Date: 01/03/2008
Back to blogging
OK, so one of my new year's resolutions has been to finally keep this blog going. I thought I would...
Date: 01/02/2008
Turning off contact me for now
I apologize that I have not had the time to add much to this blog recently. With dev schedules and...
Date: 11/07/2007
Testing while coding
Wow! It's been a long time since I wrote a blog! Things have been very busy around here. I am busy...
Date: 11/01/2007
Thoughts on testing speech applications
Personally, I feel one area that we did not address overly well in Speech Server is allowing...
Date: 10/11/2007
UCMA ships!
UCMA has finally shipped! For those of you who would like to download it, the full download is at...
Date: 10/10/2007
Unified Communications Client API shipped!
I just received an e-mail that the Unified Communications Client API has just shipped and is now...
Date: 10/08/2007
Strategies for creating prompt database for multilingual applications
Recently a customer contacted me with a question about creating multilingual applications with...
Date: 10/05/2007
Check out UCForums
Recently I have received several e-mails asking for help and advice for building OCS applications....
Date: 10/03/2007
Schooling for the little ones
This week my wife and I went to check out a school that we plan to send our two kids to next year....
Date: 09/28/2007
Some common UCMA questions
Every once in awhile (though somewhat more commonly now) I receive an e-mail or IM asking a question...
Date: 09/26/2007
Es-Us and Es-Mx locale confusion
Recently I answered an issue where a customer was confused because sometimes we use the Es-Mx locale...
Date: 09/25/2007
Connection managers and endpoint types in UCMA
I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you who use UCMA do not truly know when one should use...
Date: 09/24/2007
What should I use to write Speech Server applications?
Recently, I have seen a few posts on other blogs asking what should one use to create speech server...
Date: 09/18/2007