Getting rerouted messages to the right UCMA endpoint
One of the great things you can do with the Lync Server SDK is reroute calls to a UCMA application. Your MSPL script or managed SIP application can intercept any call that goes through the Front End...
View ArticleDetermining whether a user has Enterprise Voice
How can your UCMA application determine whether a Lync user is enabled for Enterprise Voice? The answer is a bit more complex than you might think. In short, the best way appears to be establishing a...
View ArticleSIP URI typos and the misleading errors they cause
For a development platform that abstracts away a whole lot of underlying activity, UCMA really does a pretty good job of letting you know the cause when a problem occurs. But there are a few cases...
View ArticleSending calls to a voice mail box in UCMA without a missed call notification
A while back, I wrote a post on how to call an Exchange UM voice mail box directly. The trouble with the approach described in that post is that it generates a missed call notification in the Exchange...
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UCMA applications and Lync paired pools
Periodically I get a question about what happens to UCMA applications that are associated with one of the pools in a paired pool architecture when users are failed over to a backup pool. This can be...
View ArticleMSPL on the Edge Server
MSPL, and its parent SDK, the Lync Server SDK, are some of the most powerful (and complex) tools for modifying Lync Server behavior. I have a number of posts about how to use the Lync Server SDK and...
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UCMA and Office 365
A question I’ve been getting more and more often recently is whether UCMA applications can be made to work with Office 365 (Lync Online), and, if so, how. The short answer is no: a UCMA application...
View ArticleWhy is my MSPL application not seeing some messages?
MSPL (and its managed cousin, which goes by various names) is an extremely powerful tool for customizing Lync Server routing behavior. It can also, at times, be extremely frustrating to troubleshoot,...
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UCMA and Office 365: Updates
In an earlier post, I talked about how UCMA applications work with Office 365 users. Since some time has passed, I thought I’d post an update outlining what has changed and what hasn’t when it comes to...
View ArticleWhat You Can and Can’t Do With Federation
With federation and hybrid deployments currently being the only way to get UCMA applications communicating with Skype for Business Online tenants, federation is even more important than before. This...
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