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

Our white paper for guidance for a 21 CFR Part 11 implementation on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is finally available for download. It is available through our new Life Sciences site on MSDN. However if the link disappears from the main page here is direct link to the download:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/f/b/dfb85977-02a6-4f12-a7d0-22c16c5fb943/SharePointConfigGuidanceFor21CFRPart11-doc.zip

Tomorrow (24th) I will be in Philadelphia at the Industry and Health Authority Conference on SAFE™ Digital Signatures and Identity Management to talk about our SAFE digital Signature solution for Office 2007, Vista and Windows 2008 server.

I am a bit thinly stretched right now but I will post a detailed description of our solution here in the next few weeks. If you have more urgent needs just reach out to me and I will try to help you.

Send me an email at marcd at microsoft dot com if you want to hook up for lunch

after two years at Amazon he has come back. Hopefully he will blog frequently as his first post is a nice read:

http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2007/05/14/i-m-glad-to-be-back.aspx

I added Pat to my blogroll again.

fixed the title as spell check got hold of it the first time around.

half an hour ago Dan Kasun kicked off the first HLS dev conference. now Randy Fusco is talking about the provider space and the "Connect, Collaborate and !ntegrate" vision.

I have been using it for a few months on my BlackJack and it provides amazing quality maps, directions and most importantly live traffic information. It also talks directly to you contacts so need to retype and address.

Today when I was installing it (got my phone replaced) I noticed that besides for Windows Mobile phones (2003SE and 2005), JME phones it is now in Beta for the Black Jack. Welcome to the club.

Microsoft will be posting quotes and video clips live from the CEO Summit: http://www.microsoft.com/ceosummit/default.mspx

You can even watch the keynote live on Wednesday morning 11:50 EDT at http://metahost.origindigital.com/microsoft/20070516/ceosummit_20070516_500.asx

This might be really obvious but nevertheless it will hit you when you test search stuff.

I was testing some search stuff in MOSS in context of document versions and I couldn't get a document to show up at all. I realized that I had just added this user and that probably the content hadn't been crawled yet to notice that this user has access this document library.

This is a small but useful reminder that the crawler not only crawls content but also also ACLs

please note that this is a personal statement and not endorsed by family, employer or other people related to me.....

Toshiba laptops and tablet PC are the most mediocre made my mankind and probably in the universe. I just suffered through another two hours of getting something to work and it doesn't. (my pen)

I currently own a M4 but have owned many different types in the past due to corporate policies and I will never buy one again. This summer I will get a new laptop or tablet and it will be a Lenovo, Dell or HP. Whenever I get a chance to influence somebody else's laptop/tablet purchase I will advice them correspondingly.

Besides the bad hardware quality you also need a lot of crappy drivers to get your Toshiba to work. If you think (like I do) that they are bad with hardware you will notice that this is nothing compared to their skills when it comes to writing software. The amount of utilities you need to get even basic functionality out of your machine is ridiculous and eats costly resources (CPU, memory, disk) on your machine.

Sorry for the interruption and back to regular programming.

wow...... I was browsing around trying to find some good MOSS consultants to hire and was doing a query for SharePoint job openings:

• Dice alone has 1530 SharePoint related job listings
• Monster has 1906 SharePoint related job listings
• Careerbuilder has 908 SharePoint related job listings

I guess learning SharePoint is a pretty good way to find a nice job. Of course I knew that ;-)

If you are a SharePoint superstar and want to come work at Microsoft drop me a note at marcd at microsoft dot com.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ACallForGoodDesignOneGuyAnInsulinPump8PDAsAndAnIPod.aspx

Basically it is amazing that glucose monitors are so antique and difficult to use and that the vendors lack any type of interest in opening up the protocols so people can at least get the data out of them to improve their health.