skype-for-business

I've seen examples of bot programming that work with "Skype". Is it possible to develop enterprise bots that run on "Skype for Business" using Microsoft's Bot/Cognitive service tools/framework? Skype for Business is not yet supported by Bot Framework . To find all the messaging channels that are supported visit the Bot Framework's documentation site . The Microsoft Bot Framework now officially supports Skype for Business as a channel: Skype for Business Bot Framework (Preview) (As of writing this its in Preview mode, so things may change in the future. But at least its there.) Skype for

I have updated to Skype for Business 2016 (Office 2016) and the desktop application that I am developing, that integrates with the Lync client, has started to throw an exception. I am guessing that the SDK version 15.0.4481.100 is not compatible with the Skype for Business version 16.0.42.66.1003, but I can not find a newer SDK than Lync 2013 SDK (2014-03-17). Is desktop client development for Skype for Business 2016 not supported as it was with 2013? Exception: Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Uc.IAudioDevice2'. This operation failed

I'm trying to use the REST API in Skype for Business Online by following the instructions here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/mt590891(v=office.16).aspx . I make the first call to the discovery service, and then get the discovery URL back for the user; it looks like this for me: https://webdir0b.online.lync.com/Autodiscover/AutodiscoverService.svc/root/oauth/user I then make the call to Azure and successfully get an access token back for https://webdir0b.online.lync.com . The next step is where things break down - I make a request again to the discovery Url for the user and

There seems to be a lot of different SDKs / APIs around Skype for Business. I'm having a tough time deciphering which one would be appropriate for a server side Bot like application that could communicate domain specific information to the users within the organization. For example we'd like to be able to deliver task(s) via messages and perform presence based task assignment. This seems to be fairly low hanging fruit but where's the REST endpoints and documentation to make this happen. Assuming for example I wanted to create a little console application that could facilitate this what API

Is there a way to send messages via Skype for Business using excel VBA? I tried to add SKYPE4COMLib and following code: Sub skype() Dim aSkype As SKYPE4COMLib.skype Set aSkype = New SKYPE4COMLib.skype Dim oChat As Chat Dim skUser As SKYPE4COMLib.user Set skUser = aSkype.user("user_name") Set oChat = aSkype.CreateChatWith(skUser.Handle) oChat.OpenWindow oChat.SendMessage "automated message" End Sub But it is not working :( Is it even possible? Thank you very much! Please keep noted that there are two products: Skype for Business (SfB) [former known as Lync] Skype for Consumer (SfC) both