Unified Communications Enhanced Presence Schemas for Lync Server 2013 general reference

This section discusses the following Microsoft Unified Communications Enhanced Presence Schemas for Microsoft Lync Server 2013 programming topics:

Applies to: Lync 2013 | Lync Server 2013

  • The underlying presence infrastructure of Microsoft Lync Server 2013 and XML-based data type system to represent enhanced presence data.

  • General practices to program with the enhanced presence features.

  • The enhanced presence data that is defined and is used by Microsoft Lync 2013.

  • The application behaviors of the enhanced presence features that are supported by Lync 2013.

The Unified Communications Enhanced Presence Schemas also includes the commonly used XML Schema Definition (XSD) files of the category schemas that are defined and used by Lync 2013.

In this documentation

  • Get started with Enhanced Presence
    Overview of the enhanced presence infrastructure and data model. Discusses how an application can enable the presence functionalities supported by Lync Server 2013, how Lync 2013 publishes and uses the enhanced presence category instances, and how an application can interoperate with Lync 2013.

  • Lync-defined Enhanced Presence category instance elements
    Lists the XML elements representing the enhanced presence category instances used by Lync 2013 and Lync Server 2013.

See also

Other resources

[MS-PRES]: Presence Protocol Specification

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