Programming with Enhanced Presence

This section discusses enhanced presence programming concepts.

In This Section

• Controlling Access to Presence Publications
  Describes how to use presence containers to control user access to published instances of enhanced presence.

• Aggregating Multiple Points of Presence
  Describes how Microsoft Lync 2010 supports multiple points of presence (MPOP) by aggregating appropriate presence data across multiple endpoints from which a user signs in to Lync 2010.

• Publishing Presence Category Instances
  Describes the general programming flow for publishing presence data as enhanced presence category instances.

• Receiving Presence Category Instances
  Describes the general programming flow to subscribe to or query presence data published by specified presentities.

• Registering Custom Category Names
  Describes how to register a custom category name with Lync 2010 to support application-specific presence data and logic.

• Using Unified Communications APIs
  Provides an overview of the Lync 2010-supported APIs that can be used to build enhanced presence aware or enabled applications.