So just a quick notes on what I learned in two days at Microsoft development center ,basically it was a big demo of what UC can do and then a small explanation of each step and how was the demo done

The demo was about a wife that is going to buy a sofa from a super market and then the sales person opens a wpf windows application that show he is online from the communicator and then he starts navigation through different type of products and then choose sofa and then opens the customer calendar and choose a good day to deliver the sofa

After that the application chooses a driver that is not busy at the day automatically and books a date with the delivery details in his calendar using his credentials

After that the driver opens his outlook and decide to make the delivery day another day and moves the meeting in the outlook calendar that action triggers an event automatically that makes the office communication server calls the customers and asks him if he want to move the delivery day to the date through a ATM voice of Microsoft young lady

If the customer says yes the date is moved and booked else they search for another date that meets both driver and customers date

After wards the driver arrive the house of the customer and uses OFS to call the customer through his communicator , the OFS calls the customers and notify him that the driver wants to talk with him

And asks if he accepts that

We have seen another example of a big airplane factory that uses the UC to call engineers and share with them 3D plane models and asks in details and change the models through sharing a third party application while still having the ability to talk through web cams

Another example was about a customer visiting a company and he finds on the in trance door a pc with an application asking about his visit and then calls the employee he is visiting on his communicator and then they can start talking through the web cam and then the employee is promoted if he accepts the customer visit , when approves it a visit card is printed out to the customer with a bar code and his image on it

Some fancy staff but quiet powerful, I got all the presentations and soft copy of the recommended book and some good links if we need to get some virtual images up and running

I would really like to have a physical server where we can host those images to play around

About the Training

The Unified Communications Platform Team is excited to provide this intensive developer training to our SI partners to help build UC developer capability in their companies and serve the needs of our mutual customers. This two day event is deeply technical and is geared towards experienced software developers and solution architects that are interested in developing solutions that leverage Office Communications Server 2007 and or Exchange 2007.