Learn Skype Web SDK Day 6 : Getting & Subscribing to Other People’s Presence
[contemplate-1] View Demo We’ve already seen how to get and subscribe to our own presence, but you’ll probably also want to be able to subscribe to other...
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Learn Skype Web SDK Day 5 : Subscribe to Changes in your own Presence / Information
[contemplate-1] View Demo In the last post we covered getting your own presence, by reading the state of the mePerson object. However, as I mentioned, because of the...
Learn Skype Web SDK Day 4 : Getting Your Own Information
[contemplate-1] View Demo We’ve already covered how to get and subscribe to presence information, but Skype for Business (Lync) contains a lot more information...
Learn Skype Web SDK Day 3 : Getting Your Own Presence
[contemplate-1] View Demo Once you’ve logged in, you can start to access information about users, including yourself. Skype for Web API makes it easy to get at...
Learn Skype Web SDK Day 2 : Logging Out
[contemplate-1] View Demo Last time we talked about getting logged in, and looking at the current signed-in state. Equally important is getting logged out. If you only...
Learn Skype Web SDK Day 1 : Logging In
[contemplate-1] View Demo Getting signed in using Skype for Web API’s predecessor, UCWA, used to be a complicated process involving trying different URLs, passing...
Introducing Skype Web SDK
It’s here! During the Build 2015 Keynote Microsoft announced the release of the technical preview of their newest SDK for Skype for Business, the Skype Web...
Learn Skype Web SDK Day -1 : Setting Up Your Development Environment
[contemplate-1] Unlike many of the other Skype for Business APIs and SDKs, the Skype for Web API doesn’t require much setup at all. Because it’s designed to...
Learn Skype Web API Day -2 : Server Prerequisites
[contemplate-1] As at the time of writing, the Skype Web SDK doesn’t impose any additional requirements on the server, over and above those required for UCWA. So,...
Skype for Business & Skype Federation Improvements Coming Soon
As part of the Office365 Summit series, we’re finding out lots of really useful information about the upcoming Skype for Business release, the replacement to...
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