We are trying to integrate our app with MS Exchange. One of possible features of that integration is to let other apps know if our app user currently performing some important work, so other users should see him as busy.
All APIs I found allow to get user free/busy status, but not set. Is there public api for a writing side?
The free/busy time option on Microsoft Exchange is generated from the Outlook/Exchange Calendar entries from the users. These infos are fetched from the users calendar by the Availability service as written by Microsoft here. So if you wish to "SET" something, you need to create an calendar entry for the user. If you try to add something to the backend environment which is managed by Microsoft Exchange you might cause issues for the users as they do not see that in there calendars. That is also the reason why you are unable to find a "free/busy time writing API". So please create a calendar entry for your purpose and let the MS Exchange Availability service do the rest.
A good starting point to understand the construct is:
Availability service in Exchange 2013
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recently my company started using Bitrix24 as an intranet portal. Our employees use google drive and calendar synchronization between their google accounts (private ones, not gsuite). Few days ago I received an email from google:
We have contacted Bitrix24 support, but they could not give us any specifics with regards to this email and pointed out to contact google. Free google plans do not really have helpdesk support and point to sites like stackoverflow for help.
We do not really know what to do in this situation, as we have very little knowledge about google developer console. One of us just used his account to set up a project and provide OAuth to sync google accounts with bitrix24.
Several months ago google started releasing security changes enacted to help ensure that users data is secure. Due to this all developers with applications running risky scopes must apply for application verification
The developer who has created this application, probably the same person who received that email must click the link and submit the application. Once your project is approved you will not have any more issues. I suggest you begin the process now as it may take sometime for you to compete the process.
Does anyone know how to get the information about user device that access the bot deployed in S4B channel and built using MS Bot Framework (C#).
I need to know about the options to detect the user device (Device type and OS) accessing the Skype For Business Bot. If there's a way to know whether user device is desktop or mobile. In bot framework the User-Agent header formatted similar to the string below:
SFBUserAgent (Microsoft-BotFramework/3.1+https://botframework.com/ua)
(The user agent from Connector returns the following:
fxversion/4.7.2563.0 osname/windowsserver2016datacenter osversion/6.3.14393 microsoft.bot.connector.connectorclient/3.14.1.1)
I want to know if UCWA can be used to detect the device type accessing Skype For Business bot.
UCWA is not able to do so, actually no client or client-facing api can provide such information. It's because User-Agent information is not part of the presence so the client doesn't publish it to other clients. The main purpose of this User-Agent information is for monitoring reporting purpose.
However there is still some space from server side to allow us to do something. If you have access to the Skype for Business server, you have several workarounds.
Get-CsConnections.ps1 is a well-known script to pull current logged in user from Lync server side. It was written in 2011 while we only had Lync 2010, but good news is it works fine with new version of Lync like Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business server 2015. This script needs to be run in Lync/Skype management shell or a Powershell session with Lync/Skype modules imported. It needs to run by using an Lync/Skype admin account.
To retrieve user agent for a particular user by using sip uri.
$UserHomePool = (Get-CsUser -Identity [sip address]).RegistrarPool
Get-CsConnections.ps1 -SipAddress [sip address] -Pool $UserHomePool
Connections.ps1 is the prototype script of the above Get-CsConnections.ps1, it's simpler but doesn't provide advanced features. You can look at it and decide which one you need.
Do it yourself. If you don't want to use 3rd party script or just want to do it in a simplest and pure way, it's possible to do it by querying it from server database. Lync/Skype server stores this user agent information in the dynamic database in Front End server. It's in the table dbo.RegistrarEndpoint of the database rtcdyn of the instance rtclocal.
Please notice that there is no public document about the database schema so you need to do a little guess and hacking yourself. Good news is all data in the database is strored in readable format so it shouldn't be a big issue.
In a very rare chance that you are not wanting this information in real-time, the monitoring report and database can be the best approach. It's not real-time data, the data is generated within 10 mins after a conversation is ended.
If you want to get it from monitoring database, you should look at SessionDetails view for P2P conversation and ConferenceSessionDetails for conference conversation. There are straighforward fields in the views called something like UserClientType to point out the user agent information for the certain session.
At last one thing I would like to remind is Skype allows user to logged in multiple clients simultaneously, so no matter how you make it work you still need to face the question which logged in client really matters to you if the user has multiple clients logged in.
I have implemented an application which accesses calendars in an Office 356 E3 tenant. I've used the client_credentials flow and obtained Admin Consent. So far everything seems to work as expected.
Now I have a customer how wants to use my application with an Exchange 2016 on-premise setup. Is there a way to use the same application in this setup as well? Or do I have to implement a new application using EWS?
The graph API is not available on on-prem Exchange, so yes, you have to replace the graph API code with EWS code.
Depending on your use case, it is probably possible to abstract it such that your application can use either one or the other.
We had a similar issue.
You can change from Office365 Api to the MsGraph Api which supports many of the same features as the Office365 Api does. Your on premise customer needs to put his Exchange servers into hybrit mode for this. MS explained the necessary steps here.
The only problem we had is that you cant subscribe onto on premise calendars.
Here is the MsGraph Api doc
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/overview?view=graph-rest-1.0
You can also consider switching from Office365 to MsGraph entirely as this should also work for you Office365 customers. As I understand it MS is gonna expand the MsGraph Api in the future giving us a single point of contact for interaction with the Office suite and authentication.
#Marc LaFleur pls correct me if I'm wrong on this
My question is specific to Exchange Online not Exchange server. I am not able to find any document online stating if Contacts & Calendars can be moved to In-Place Archive mailbox on Exchange Online.
It would be great if you can help me with the steps, if this is possible.
Also, is there a way to access them through Office365 APIs.
Additionally, it would be great to know if this can be done in Hybrid setups, where the primary mailbox is on-premise and archive mailbox is on Exchange Online.
My question is specific to Exchange Online not Exchange server. I am not able to find any document online stating if Contacts & Calendars can be moved to In-Place Archive mailbox
From a Technical point of view you can move any item you like into an In-Place archive, the Archive policies and the Managed Folder Agent however won't move them for reason that Contact are ageless and Calendar appointment if they are recurring shouldn't need archiving. EWS has an ArchiveItem operation https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj219964(v=exchg.150).aspx which make the move between store pretty easy. But you should be able to do the same thing with a Move in the REST api.
AFAIK None of the API methods apart from MAPI will work in Hybrid you'll need to rely on a export/import with the other API's
I've a scenario wherein I need to send/assign tasks from my browser UI to the concerned. This should happen with Outlook being offline (or for that matter outlook not even configured on the terminal) so that the user can be accessing a workflow from any terminal (using his/her AD credentials) and if required should have the ability to send a task to the concerned without having to return to his own terminal to be able to do so.
I envision that the user's credentials should be used to look up the AD for his/her email ID and send a task using the same from anywhere in the intranet.
Using Outlook object library I have been able to assign/send tasks, but with the Outlook being fired up and not otherwise.
Redemption does the sync of contacts while Outlook is offline but not tasks.
Kindly help if anybody has had a chance to do something similar.
Thanks in advance.
Redemption could help you here as you can run it it on a web server which will connect to you exchange env via mapi for you.
There are other ways dependant on you version of exchange EWS or Exchange DAV.
EWS comes with a managed API now a days to take some of the sting out of it.
There are similar 3rd party libraries for Exchange DAV as well.
They all contain contact and directory lookups.