Microsoft OCS awareness in Lotus Connections and Websphere Portal?
Category OCS Connections
I know, what kind of crazy company would have a heterogenous infrastructure with solutions from IBM and Microsoft? Well as anyone in the real world knows, most companies have something from both vendors in one way or another. Recently we were contacted by a company that wanted to show Microsoft OCS awareness in Lotus Connections and the option to show it in Websphere Portal. They had what appeared to be fairly reasonable requirements, the ability to have awareness in an iWidget and the one they really wanted to see, Microsoft OCS awareness within the connections business card. This company was kind enough to let us take what we learnt on their project and publish a couple of articles on it, which we have posted on the CodePlex open Source Project Community website, which is kind of like OpenNTF.org but for Microsoft products.
We've documented this in two papers, which you can find http://iwidgetpresence.codeplex.com and http://ocsnamectrl.codeplex.com each paper contains links to the relevant sites the background information we needed to develop the solution. Here are two videos showing the results of each approach in action:
OCS AJAX iWidget for IBM Websphere Portal and Lotus Connections:
Documentation and Example Source
http://iwidgetpresence.codeplex.com
Microsoft OCS Name.dll presence information within the Lotus Connections business card:
Documentation and Example Source
http://ocsnamectrl.codeplex.com
Thanks to our customer for letting us share this information!
I know, what kind of crazy company would have a heterogenous infrastructure with solutions from IBM and Microsoft? Well as anyone in the real world knows, most companies have something from both vendors in one way or another. Recently we were contacted by a company that wanted to show Microsoft OCS awareness in Lotus Connections and the option to show it in Websphere Portal. They had what appeared to be fairly reasonable requirements, the ability to have awareness in an iWidget and the one they really wanted to see, Microsoft OCS awareness within the connections business card. This company was kind enough to let us take what we learnt on their project and publish a couple of articles on it, which we have posted on the CodePlex open Source Project Community website, which is kind of like OpenNTF.org but for Microsoft products.
We've documented this in two papers, which you can find http://iwidgetpresence.codeplex.com and http://ocsnamectrl.codeplex.com each paper contains links to the relevant sites the background information we needed to develop the solution. Here are two videos showing the results of each approach in action:
OCS AJAX iWidget for IBM Websphere Portal and Lotus Connections:
Documentation and Example Source
http://iwidgetpresence.codeplex.com
Microsoft OCS Name.dll presence information within the Lotus Connections business card:
Documentation and Example Source
http://ocsnamectrl.codeplex.com
Thanks to our customer for letting us share this information!
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Posted by null At 02:10:14 PM On 02/09/2010 | - Website - |
Great to see its kind of doable ! I know we would have some clients here in the netherlands looking for this kind of integration points within C onnections with Sharepoint and OCS ! Are you willing to share your expertise on how this is done if we find a client where this requirements is a hard one for the project to get (payment we will arrange as soon we come to this situation
Posted by Sjaak Ursinus At 04:36:52 AM On 02/11/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Luis Benitez At 12:25:32 PM On 06/17/2010 | - Website - |