We are using Skype for Business 2015 in our Organization (On-premises environment).
We are trying to integrate Skype web features to the Intranet Web sites using Skype for business WebSDK. Internet connectivity/access are not allowed in my environment.
I tried downloading and running sample mentioned in below link.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/websdk/docs/gettingstarted#sectionSection4
While evaluating I figured out that SkypeBootStrap.min.js is looking for sdk.js hosted in (https://latest-swx.cdn.skype.com/jLync/master_0.4.514/sdk.js)
Can you please suggest any alternate approach for running SkypeWebSDK samples?
My ultimate goal is to develop a reusable client-side component that can be integrated into any of our intranet web applications within our firm which provides all of Skype communication options (including audio, video and screen sharing) through a simple client-side API. What is the best way to achieve this?
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Thanks for looking.
I need to develop an add-in for the Skype for Business UI similar to the way in which one can develop an add-in for Excel or Outlook. Is this possible?
I have found documentation and several tutorials for using the Skype APIs to integrate Skype for Business with other applications, but I can't find much with regards to building an add-in for Skype for Business itself.
I would like to be able to do things like add custom menu items to the Skype for Business UI, Integrate a custom conversation window extension, capture and use data from the chat window, contacts list, etc. To be clear, I am looking to do all of this above board with the user's approval.
Any answers, advice, links, etc. are appreciated.
There is not really an add-in system for Skype For Business. In the Lync days, the solution to offer additional content was via Conversation Window Extensions or CWEs and I believe they still function in some for for Skype for Business, but the technology itself is not updating at this point.
Your desire for greater customization of the client software lends itself to implementing a custom client/functionality using the Unified Communications Web API - a RESTful Web API, but you might find yourself limited in that Microsoft is providing a JavaScript SDK and tools for Android/iOS with an App SDK. If UCWA is the route you go there is quite a bit of documentation on MSDN for implementing the basic tasks.
Being said that IBM Mobilefirst is very advanced tool in developing hybrid mobile applications, I am curious to know if we can develop both the mobile application and the responsive mobile application using single code base. I know that there are different environments being provided out of box by Mobilefirst i.e mobile browser, desktopBrowser, Android etc.. I feel it kind of opens an option to developer to develop both mobile and responsive web application. But following questions and functionalities makes me rethink about going forward with this approach for practical implementation.
1) How far will the MobileFirst be reusable and flexible in terms of:
* implementing session management for both applications
* Authentication and Authorisation for both applications:
- When I said Authorisation, I meant user level preferences
2) What are the steps that need to be followed to setup a project which effectively uses the all the key features of the worklight for satisfying the above mentioned requirement.
3) Post development what are the steps that need to be followed to successfully deploy mobile and web application (Both of them will be using adapters to talk to services) into production.
Very sorry for making the question so theoretical. I felt very interesting and wanted to know.
1) How far will the MobileFirst be reusable and flexible in terms of:
* implementing session management for both applications
* Authentication and Authorisation for both applications:
- When I said Authorisation, I meant user level preferences
Depends which version of MFPF you are using.
Pre-7.1, all session management is the same in the server.
7.1 forward the server is session independent and currently Mobile Web and Desktop Browser are not supported; read more about session independent in the IBM Knowledge Center
Authentication works the same for both pretty much
2) What are the steps that need to be followed to setup a project which effectively uses the all the key features of the worklight for satisfying the above mentioned requirement.
There is not feature parity between the supported mobile environment and web environment, so the answer will depend on which particular features you will end up using. The IBM Knowledge Center contains a feature parity table.
3) Post development what are the steps that need to be followed to successfully deploy mobile and web application (Both of them will be using adapters to talk to services) into production.
That's got nothing to do with any of the environment you'll choose to use. It's the same for all. Yet again, read in the IBM Knowledge Center.
Is it possible use Visual Studio 2013 Application Insights with my web forms project?
I have added application insight to my project but cannot get performance metrics to Application Insights portal. My project is running top of Azure web sites.
There's now an Azure Websites Extension that supports perf metrics for azure websites:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/01/07/application-insights-and-azure-websites.aspx
If you have an Azure WebSite and would like to enable Application
Insights follow these steps:
1) Onboard your application to Application Insights from Visual Studio
2013 Update 3 or later and deploy to an Azure WebSite.
Note: If your application onboarded to Application Insights already
ensure you are using the .12 SDK (or later).
2) Enable the Application Insights Extension on the Azure WebSite
blade (not the Application Insight blade) for the website that was
enabled for Application Insights with the .12 or later SDKs
3) Now the extension is enabled execute a few requests against your
web App and navigate to your Application Insights resource blade
As far as I know Application Insights will only work with Web Applications.
Here are the project types supported:
A web service or web application.
Web pages that use JavaScript. A
Windows Phone 8 app.
A Windows Store app.
See this page for further information on the types of projects you can monitor: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn481095.aspx
Ken's answer is right for the types of apps that application insights supports really well. this includes seamless onboarding/getting started and loads of "automatic" data visible without having to write any new lines of code.
From an SDK "core" perspective we can support other types of apps like WPF and desktop apps. Here are the steps required to setup it up manually and the code required to get metrics, events, traces, etc sent to the application insights service. this should just work if your winform app is running on an azure website too.
Application Insights for WPF Application
At the present time, Application Insights is focused just on web-based applications.
ASP.NET Web Forms
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET Core
WCF
JavaScript
and some alternative platforms / languages (PHP, Ruby, Java).
Azure App Service (formerly Web Sites) does not support Performance Counters (CPU percentage, Disc read/write operations, Available Memory etc.).
For clarification: Azure Website Extension just helps you to collect dependencies and some statistics in case your application is running on .NET version < 4.6.
Going through the IBM Worklight product documentation,the product looks great for building hybrid or native applications. However for building mobile web (with responsive web design) what are the specific advantages one can get from worklight?
For (the) Mobile Web (environment), I don't think that at this time there is much left.
However, you do still:
get to use Worklight Adapters and its extensive integration abilities, which do make it easier to connect to various backends
use Cordova to access some device native capabilities
use the WL Client JavaScript API
I need some guidelines here. I am creating an online booking system for my client that interfaces with QuickBooks on their internal network (desktop QuickBooks, not online).
Do I need to go the full "publish app" route? I do not wish to sell this app in the marketplace. This is merely a custom booking system designed and paid for by the client. It seems like I need to "publish" the app in the marketplace for them to be able to use it.
Are there ways around this?
Update 06/23/2015 - To connect to a desktop QuickBooks installation the SDK with the Web Connector is now the only recommended approach. Intuit is removing Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) integration to desktop QuickBooks.
For the SDK/Web Connector, you don't need to go through any publication process or anything like that. Just build the solution, and connector your client.
There's a pretty good overview of how the QuickBooks web connector works on our QuickBooks wiki.
The QuickBooks SDK download also includes a huge PDF with detailed documentation about how to implement SDK/Web Connector applications as well.