Making API calls to Skype for Business / Lync without registering application

Question

I was looking to develop a service that interacts with my Skype for Business account. The UCWA API look to be almost perfect (language agnostic HTTP API) unfortunately it seems that using the UCWA API requires registering a persistent(?) application with the Lync server which Id rather not do. I just want to auth, make a few API calls and be done? IS there anyway to do this with Skype for Business / Lync wthout regiersting an application on the server?

Answer 1

I think you are confused, you don't been to register a application to use UCWA. You need to register a azure application if you want to communicate with SfB online with UCWA but on-prem UCWA access you don't have to.

I think you are getting confused with Trusted Application API which is ONLY for SfB online (it's kind-of like a replacement for UCMA trusted server applications) and only works on SfB online only. You can think of Trusted Application API as a extension of the UCWA api to provide more high-privilege capabilities. If you don't need the extra capabilities then you don't need to use the Trusted Application API.