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Publishing and Subscribing

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When a Microsoft Office Communications client or custom client sends a request to Office Communications Server asking the server to store and disseminate a category of information such as user status, the client publishes a category. Alternatively, if a client sends a request to Office Communications Server asking the server to return a previously published category, the client subscribes to a category. For a definition of category, see Terminology.

Publishing

Describes the general programming pattern for adding, modifying, or removing a set of category instances and provides procedures for adding a category instance for publication, updating the category instance, and removing the category instance from the publication.

Subscribing

Describes the general programming pattern for creating a subscription request for enhanced presence categories published by users.

In This Section

Subscribe to Category Instances

Query Category Instances

Receive Subscribed Categories

Publish Category Instances

Microsoft Office Communicator Presence Categories

See Also

Concepts

Category and Category Instances
Publication and Subscription Objects