Marc Space

What is the coolest thing you have thing for your customers using MOSS and Office 2007:

Constraints:

• No InfoPath or excel services.
• Applicable to large parts of the population of a large customer (say 100k users)
• Limited or no custom code
• No large performance impact on the farm

Goal (prioritized)

1. Perceived killer app
2. Perceived by people( end-users) as very cool
3. Perceived by management as providing value/increasing productivity/saving cost

just leave me a comment or drop me a note at marcd at microsoft dot com.

work has been absolute mayhem the last 12 months or so. And it will continue to be but regardless I am going to push harder and spend some time on my blog again. I will focus a little more on cloud topics related to Microsoft and Healthcare and Life Sciences. I might even talk about some HL7 standards work.

Often when I am traveling I struggle to find decent radio stations. NPR is pretty good listening but I can never remember the frequencies or where to find them.

I just discovered that they actually have a tool to plan your road trip:

http://www.npr.org/stations/

Besides have turn by turn instructions for  your trip they include when to change stations

Additionally they use Virtual Earth (maps.live.com) and an overlay of there radio towers. To make it even better they use the VE polygon features to show coverage of a tower and signal strength

I am looking for customers who are interested in integrating their LiveLink environment with MOSS. The Integration is in form of a Protocol Handler for LiveLink. This will allow them to search their LiveLink repositories from MOSS..

There is a  prerequisite:  you need to have the latest version of LiveLink (v9.7.1) otherwise security trimming will not work.

Please let me know if you are interested in this functionality and send me an email at marcd at microsoft dot com. If you are interested but the prerequisite is preventing you from doing the integration drop me a note indicating that.

For a few years now the FDA is recommending that drug manufacturers use RFID to track drugs from plant to the consumer.

The purpose is two fold

• reduce fake drugs (improves patient health and stock price of pharmaceutical companies)
• provides ability to track recalled drugs faster and more efficient

Using BizTalk RFID you can easily implement a solution that tracks the location of drugs and allows you to build a database with its where abouts. Pharmacies use RFID readers to verify that the drug is the real thing.

Here are links to 3 webcasts that can help you build these type of solutions:

1. Orchestrating the real-time enterprise with the BizTalk RFID platform http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-03&pw=BTS06R2
2. Building device providers for the BizTalk RFID platform  
   http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-05&pw=BTS06R2
3. Designing and deploying BizTalk RFID Business Processes  
   http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-06&pw=BTS06R2

This is a good blog to read to keep up with new developments in the BizTalk RFID space: http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkrfid/

This weekend our SAFE signing solution will go live on codeplex. It is a complete reference implementation that will allow you to apply SAFE Digital Signatures to your documents that you need to exchange with partners or submit to the FDA

here is the URL but note that the page will only be live from Monday onwards: SAFE Signing Interface for Office 2007 and Vista

No I didn't morph into a fashionista I still work as an architect in Health care at Microsoft.

However take a look at this clip:

this is not faked or a mockup all this technology really works and I have seen it demo'd over the last year or so.

Now imagine this technology at work in your corporation; giving you the ability to interact in meetings like you are there (would have been useful in NYC yesterday with that tornado) or reschedule appointments if your train/flight is running late with a simple phone call.

George writes about what he saw around SharePoint at DIA on his blog: http://laszloletter.typepad.com/the_laszlo_letter/2007/06/is-sharepoint-r.html

I think he is right on the money and you will hear about these two solutions and others in the next few months.

They certainly have taken their time but it is here now. They didn't really add any new functionality since Beta3 they just stabilized it. Now it is quite a useful little tool for anybody doing web or MOSS development.

go get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en