{"id":24927,"date":"2020-10-31T08:52:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/?p=24927"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:12:33","slug":"adding-the-skype-for-business-onprem-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/docs\/bots\/channel-enablement\/adding-the-skype-for-business-onprem-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding the Skype for Business (On-premises) Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>This document elaborates the steps to provide support for <strong>Skype For Business<\/strong> Server (On-premises) for your virtual assistant.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Prerequisites\">Prerequisites<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The following server must be installed On-premises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skype for Business Server 2015<\/li>\n<li>Configured Auto-Discovery Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Skype for Business (On-premises) channel is backed with Microsoft Unified Communications Web API (UCWA) &#8211; REST API that exposes Skype for Business Server 2015 Instant Messaging and Presence capabilities. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/ucwa.skype.com\/documentation\/what-is-lync-ucwa-api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here for more details<\/a> on UCWA API.<\/p>\n<p>To set up Skype for Business (On-premises) channel, you need the discovery URL and a user account using which the bot is discoverable and can communicate to users.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>To add Skype for Business (On-premises) channel, follow the below steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From Skype for Bussiness obtain the <strong>Discovery URL<\/strong>. Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/skype-sdk\/ucwa\/rooturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">instructions given here<\/a> for obtaining the same.<\/li>\n<li>In the <b>Bots<\/b> section of the Bot Builder, click the bot you want to add to the <b>Skype for Business<\/b> (On-premises) channel.<\/li>\n<li>On the <b>Channels<\/b> tab, click the <b>Skype for Business <\/b>(On-premises) icon. The <b>Skype for Business Channel<\/b> (On-premises)<b>\u00a0<\/b>page is displayed.<\/li>\n<li>In the\u00a0<strong>Configurations <\/strong>tab, enter the details:\n<ul>\n<li>Discovery URL<\/li>\n<li>UserName<\/li>\n<li>Password<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong> to complete channel enablement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_default thick_1 style_solid color_border align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This document elaborates the steps to provide support for Skype For Business Server (On-premises) for your virtual assistant. Prerequisites The following server must be installed On-premises: Skype for Business Server 2015 Configured Auto-Discovery Service Skype for Business (On-premises) channel is backed with Microsoft Unified Communications Web API (UCWA) - REST API that exposes Skype for...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channel-enablement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27328,"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927\/revisions\/27328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer.kore.ai\/v10-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}