SMS service

How do you connect SMS into a business process, when you both needs to send and receive SMS’s?

And at the same time needs to send a large amount of SMS’s within a few hours?

With this post I will try to sort out some collected links.

Books / Articles

• Online/Sale Book 2009-10: S-BPM ONE: Setting the Stage for Subject-Oriented Business Process Management.
  http://books.google.dk/books?id=gTXpXo2R27oC&pg=PA65&dq=sms+unified+messaging&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VOB5T4jOL4fl4QTSv-ioDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=sms%20unified%20messaging&f=false
  Comment: SMS is part of Unified Messaging (UM), which again is a part of Unified Communication (UC), which again can be part of a Business Process (S-BPM) and modelled by Parallel Activities Specification Scheme (PASS) and finally be deployed as BPEL.
• Online/Sale Book 2011-06: Unified Communications (UC): High-impact Technology – What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors.
  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unified-Communications-High-impact-Technology-Definitions/dp/1743044070/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333388740&sr=1-1#_
• What is an SMS Gateway?
  http://www.developershome.com/sms/sms_tutorial.asp?page=smsGateway
  Answer: converter between different SMSC protocols.
  Comment: AT commands between PC and GSM modem for sending/reading SMS.

SMS-Gateway

• Product – Ozeki. Walkthrough. How to send/receive SMS messages with MS Exchange 2010
  http://www.sms-integration.com/p_131-ms-exchange-2010-sms.html
  Comment: The GW can be configured and consumed by a whole lot of apps.
• Product – Hypermedia. SMS Gateway Device
  http://www.hyperms.com/products/sms-gateways/sms-gateway.html?_kk=lync&_kt=7850809e-212a-413b-bafe-e89749c2b4c0&gclid=CK2B1o3AmK8CFQh0mAodCWKo5Q
  Comment: 4 – 32 SMS ports
• Product and code – InetLab. SMS Gateway SMPP Client using InetLab.DLL and VB.NET
  http://dedsmsgateway.codeplex.com/

Exchange

• Mobile Email with Exchange ActiveSync
  http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/mobile-email-with-exchange-activesync.aspx
  Comment: A feature that syncronice your inbox with your mobile and notify with SMS.
• http://www.microsoftnow.com/2010/01/sms-text-message-integration-with-exchange-server-2010.html
  Comment: Demo of SMS sync. ActiveSync must also be active on the mobile device.
• TN: Understanding Unified Messaging
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351090.aspx
• TN: Understanding Protocols, Ports, and Services in Unified Messaging
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998265.aspx
• TN: PBX Configuration Notes Tested by Microsoft or IP Gateway Vendor Partners
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc411323(EXCHG.80).aspx
• TN: Define the SMTP Gateway to the Exchange Server
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459247.aspx
• TN: Understanding Exchange ActiveSync
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998357.aspx
• TN: Client Access Cmdlets
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998005.aspx
• TN: Unified Messaging Cmdlets
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997665.aspx
• TN: Understanding the Remote Connectivity Analyzer
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701693.aspx
• Site: Exchange Server TechCenter. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/default.aspx

SW

• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1
  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=1004

Forum

• SMS Gateway: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/35dda362-4161-46b6-94f5-ddfc577d45bb
• Is it possible to send SMS message via EWS managed API?
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/thread/88d24b48-1026-40e6-9d6f-8f47e05121cf
• SMS Query
  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/exchange2010/thread/085AEFFD-4950-4A53-A07A-25E5B64A7DA7
• SMS Gateway Server Hardware Costs and Startup Guide
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6755510/sms-gateway-server-hardware-costs-and-startup-guide
  Comment: Protocols mentioned.
• Free SMS Gateway
  http://forums.asp.net/t/1280425.aspx

Search

• SMS: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=sms&Refinement=19&ac=8

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Lync resources

With the intension of building Lync business processes using API’s here are some resources.

List of Resources

• Poster: http://voipnorm.blogspot.com/2011/01/lync-work-flow-poster.html
• Poster: Lync Server 2010 Protocol Workloads Poster. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=6797
• Vids: Using the UCMA 3.0 Workflow SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg581804
• Article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2011/03/24/im-an-lync-expert-bot-available-for-download-and-other-lync-customization-examples.aspx

Refs

• Walkthrough: UCMA 3.0 Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg421021.aspx
• Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633709(v=exchg.80).aspx
• Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Web Services SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd877012(v=exchg.140).aspx

Books

• Online: Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2: http://books.google.dk/books?id=V_x4alEP_LoC&vq=sms&dq=ucma+sms&hl=da&source=gbs_navlinks_s
• Online: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit: http://books.google.dk/books?id=I455YRXUK-YC&printsec=frontcover&hl=da#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Download: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=22644
• Sale: Professional Unified Communications Development with Microsoft Lync Server 2010: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Communications-Development-Microsoft-Programmer/dp/0470939036/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333449070&sr=1-1#_
• Sale: Pro Office 365 Development: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Office-Development-Mark-Collins/dp/1430240741/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333449861&sr=1-3

Code

• EWSHelpers: http://code.google.com/p/ews2007/source/browse/trunk/ews2007/0.+Code/ProxyHelpers/EWSHelpers.cs?r=5

Deploy

• http://blogs.msexchange.org/silva/2012/01/10/lync-server-2010-exchange-2010-vhd-dev/

Sites and bloggers

• Blog: The Three UC Amigos: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/

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EMS Commandlets

Just for a nice reference…

Exchange 2010 Cmdlets http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124413.aspx 

Exch2007: Speedup EMS startup time

How to increase Exchange Management Shell (EMS) startup time from 35 sec to 5 sec:

• Follow link Update-gac.ps1 to get a ps1 script.
• Execute the script. Output:

powershell .\update-gac-exch.ps1
Already GACed: Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management.dll
Already GACed: Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility.dll
Already GACed: Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost.dll
Already GACed: Microsoft.PowerShell.Security.dll
Already GACed: mscorlib.dll
Already GACed: System.Configuration.Install.dll
Already GACed: System.Data.dll
Already GACed: System.DirectoryServices.dll
Already GACed: System.dll
Already GACed: System.Management.Automation.dll
Already GACed: System.Management.dll
Already GACed: System.Xml.dll

After doing that starting EMS should be much quicker.

Another link

• http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/01/449426.aspx

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