Sign in
Microsoft.com
 
Microsoft
 
 
 
Microsoft >
> 
> 
> 
Integrating Office Communications server with MOSS

Locked Integrating Office Communications server with MOSS

  • Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:46 AM
     
     
    Sign In to Vote
    0
    Hello,
    in my current project, we need to integrate OCS with MOSS MySites. Users must be able to send IM inside organization from their personal MySite, without Office Communicator. What can I use to achieve this? I read about CWA and CWA SDK. Can I use that?

    Thanks
       

    All Replies

    • Friday, September 05, 2008 8:33 PM
       
       
      Sign In to Vote
      1
      You basically have three options:

      • Creating a customized web part for sharepoint using the Ajax SDK that shows a list of users with their presence.
      • Tweaking the CWA interface and open the user list as a pop up.
      •  from sharepoint
      • creating a webservice that gives presence to a customized web part in the mysites page.
      Tweaking the CWA interface is not advisable because you would not be able to patch the original CWA code anymore once it has been customized. The OCS Ajax SDK combined with the CWA SDK should be the tools to use. The web service option is the most ' neat' one because you could share presence info with other apps as well using a standard web service interface.

      /Thomas
         
      • Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:35 AM
         
         
        Sign In to Vote
        0

        Hi,

         

        I need to integrate web based version of Office Communicator into our Collaboration Portal(sharepoint site). Please suggest me how to start about the same. I have no idea how it is to be implemented.

         

        Thanks in advanceSmile

        Prathibha

           
        • Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:35 PM
           
           
          Sign In to Vote
          0
          We have not started yet with this project (starting soon). If anyone else has some hints and tips I'm interested to know more about it....

           

             
          • Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:34 AM
             
             
            Sign In to Vote
            0
            Hi Prathibha,

            You could accomplish this by integrating Communicator Web Access in a web part or a sub-site (my MOSS knowledge isn't too great, but that sounds plausible).

            You should begin with deploying Communicator Web Access in your OCS environment.
            Details to start with here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=62D61142-8AC1-4E56-AFA9-E99801B703F6&displaylang=en

            Cheers,
               
            • Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:07 AM
               
               
              Sign In to Vote
              0
              I created custom web part that opens CWA login screen in a web part. I create iframe and write it on page using javascript. However, when page is open in sharepoint, we encounter performance loss (in IE), so we abandoned it.
              Dragan Panjkov [http://panjkov.qsh.eu/] [http://blogpanjkov.qsh.eu/]