Platform and endpoints

Applies to: Skype for Business 2015

The CollaborationPlatform class provides connection management, message dispatching, and other services to endpoints. An application creates an instance of the CollaborationPlatform class to take advantage of the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 5.0 infrastructure. An application developer can use one of the constructors in this class to create a server platform, from which an application server can be created. Another constructor can be used to create an auto-provisioned application server platform, and a third constructor in this class can be used to create a client platform, on which a number of user endpoints can be created.

The following illustration shows the principal classes that represent the two platform types and the three endpoint types.

This section includes the following topics:

• Client platforms
• Server platforms
• User endpoints and application endpoints
• Incoming message dispatching
• Trusted applications
• Trusted domains and SIP gateways