About the Authors

Rui Maximo is a senior technical writer in the Office Communications Group. He has worked on different aspects of the Microsoft Office Communications Server product suite (management, migration, topology, VoIP, Communicator Web Access) and shipped Microsoft Live Communications Server 2003, Live Communications Server 2005 (the original version and the SP1), and Office Communications Server 2007 as a lead program manager and program manager. With 13 years of experience at Microsoft, Rui has been fortunate to work in diverse roles (program management, software engineering, and technical writer) and various products (including Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, and Microsoft Office), primarily focusing on security. Prior to Microsoft, Rui worked at IBM as a software tester and at Brigham Young University as a UNIX administrator. Rui holds a master’s degree in mathematics, specializing in abstract algebra and cryptography. You can reach him at ruim@ruimaximo.com. Please send your comments!

Kurt De Ding is a senior programming writer in the Office Communications Group. As the pioneering member of the SDK documentation team, he was instrumental in the initial design, authoring, and delivery of the SDK documentation for the Microsoft Unified Communications APIs, including Microsoft Office Communicator Automation API, Unified Communications Client API, Unified Communications Managed API v 1.0, and Unified Communications AJAX API, as well as Live Meeting Service API. Before joining the Office Communications Group, Kurt had worked on various Microsoft technologies, including Windows CE SDK, Windows Platform SDK, and Microsoft SQL Server SDK.