Syncing Active Directory Departments to Skype for Business Groups - Part IV

Today we wrap up this series.  Our tool, which can be used to create a Skype for Business group from any AD Department is now available here.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/AD-Department-to-Skype-for-2a95b578

The last piece of the programming puzzle is to create a Skype for Business group using the Lync client sdk, then add users to it.

Step 1

We need to use the SDK to get a contact object from the users AD info.

                    string uri = result.Properties["msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress"][0].ToString();
                    Contact c = lc.ContactManager.GetContactByUri(uri);

You will notice is the code last week, when we do this, if they don't have a SIP uri, we then try from their email address, and lastly try from their telephone number.  This will at least cover the bases and help us if they are on a different system for voice.

Step 2

 private void createGroup(string name)
        {
            try
            {
                lc.ContactManager.BeginAddGroup(name, myar => 
                {
                    lc.ContactManager.EndAddGroup(myar);
                }, null);
            }
            catch { }
        }

If we don't have a group with that name we need to create one.  The above code will do that for us.

Step 3

We need to find the Group object that matches the name we want.

foreach (Microsoft.Lync.Model.Group.Group g in lc.ContactManager.Groups)
{
if (g.Name == searchname)
     {
//We found our group
}

}

Step 4

Now we need to have a function as we scan through our AD results that lets us add a Contact to a Group.

 private void addToGroup(Group g, Contact c)
        {
            try
            {
                g.BeginAddContact(c, myar => 
                {
                    g.EndAddContact(myar);
                }, null);
            }
            catch
            {
                addToGroup(g, c);
            }
        }

That will wrap us this series.  Thanks for reading, and have a safe Memorial Day weekend.

Doug Routledge, C# Lync, Skype for Business, SQL, Exchange, UC Developer  BridgeOC Twitter - @droutledge @ndbridge