Released: Role Agent for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server

[Oscar Newkerk[MSFT]]

We have just posted the Role Agent sample to the Microsoft download site.

Role Agent is a sample Microsoft Windows service application that implements
a role-based messaging agent for managing sessions and for brokering and
dispatching instant messages between users and members of a defined group.
The RoleBot sample application is built on the .NET Framework and is written
in C#. The base component of this application is a base class derived from
the Real-time Communications (RTC) API 1.3. The RTC API 1.3 contains a set
of COM interfaces and methods for building real-time communications
applications and the base class used in this application provides a managed
wrapper for the API.

The agent "logs in" to LCS as the role such as "Help Desk" and publishes its
presence. It looks up the members of an AD group that are in the role and
uses the members of the group as the pool of people that could handle
sessions for the role.

When a user connects to the role, the agent looks at the availability of the
members of the role and sets up a back-to-back IM connection between the
user and the selected member.

The download includes a whitepaper on the design and implementation of the
Role Agent and a Visual Studio.NET project to build the agent.

This is a basic sample and there are many areas where the function could be
enhanced or changed.

This is sample code and there is no support for the code. However, please
feel free to post about your experience and questions in these newsgroups.

Download link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2fb830b5-aa88-41b1-9ab9-235548d4270f&displaylang=en

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Oscar Newkerk
Developer Evangelist
Live Communications
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