Awards IT (0183)
Hi,
Can I add new infotype in Adhoc Query. If yes, then how.
I want a report for the IT 0183(Awards).
Samriddhi
first go to Sq02
On the left hand side there is a field by the name of infoset.
Give any appropriate name. Then click on create button.
then a screen will appear , write the name. In data source field click on Logical Database . Here you have to select PNPCE, PAP, PNP according to your requirement.
If you want to create Query on anything related to applicant select PAP. If ur query is based on Master data select PNPCE.
After selecting click on tick mark (green in colour) which is given below. A screen with different folders of infotypes will appear. Select the required infotypes which you want accoridng to your requirement. Then click on tick mark again.
Then click on generate button (red & white in colour) (3rd button from the left). A screen will appear with the name
create object directory entry. Here you have to click on local object button.. you will now see that the system haas generated a Message saying "Infoset------- generated.
In sq02 there is a button with the name Role/User Group Assignment . Assign the user group out here.
Then go to SQ01, click on infoset query. Select ur user group. You can see the name of the query which you have created.
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Awards Text - SAP HR (IT 0183)
Hi,
How can I obtain the values for awards text in infotype 0183 as the text is stored in structure RP50M? Thanks a lot.
Regards,
AtelHi Amit & Prabhu,
Thanks for the suggestions but I am not referring to the award type and award type text, instead I am referring to the "Awards Text", that is, the 3 blank lines wherein the user can key in anything (eg. Academic Excellence Award 2003, etc). Thanks again.
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Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
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Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
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Murugesa Pandian
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Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
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Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
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RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
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RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
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Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
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Jens Vestergaard
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PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
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PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
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Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
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Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
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Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
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Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
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Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
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Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
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Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
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Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
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Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
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Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
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JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
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Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
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Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
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Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
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Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
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JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
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Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
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Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
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Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
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Ed Price: "Good descriptions and use of images. Great to have the code download!"
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Ed Price: "Great topic and use of images! Could benefit from more contextual explanation and a See Also section."
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Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
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Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
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Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
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AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
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Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
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JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
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Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
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JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
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Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
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Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
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Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
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Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
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Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
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RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!I also want to congratulate Reed and Paul! Great articles from two pros!
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in T-SQL! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Saeid and SQL-Pro!
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Windows Server! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Pierre-Alexandre and Mr X!
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Bitlocker Drive Encryption by
Darshana Jayathilake
Mark Parris: "Funcdermentals of Bitlocker."
JM: "This is a good article on Bitlocker, however it needs revision for clarity."
Richard Mueller: "Good images. Grammar and spelling need work."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SQL Server! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Visakh! Just one article, but it's fantastic!
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in C#! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Isham, Tom, and Vithal!
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Implementing equality comparison, what is the best approach? by
Mansoor-Omrani
Carmelo La Monica: "Very interesting article, the code sample is very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Love the code samples. And Thanks Andy for the guidance given in comments."
Exchange: Error when using the latest version of exchange from user setting response
by
Prashant Mahajan
Jaliya Udagedara: "Answers a specific problem when using EWS Managed API."
Visual C#: RSA encryption using certificate by
Wim Beck
Jaliya Udagedara: "Nice. But it will be great, if there is more explanation to the code."
Introduction to Asp.net Ajax and Ajax Control Toolkit by
Vithal Wadje
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains AJAX in detail. Waiting till next article to see AJAX in action."
Render Same Page With Multiple URLs Using Route Engine in ASP.Net MVC 5 by
Tom Mohan
Jaliya Udagedara: "Another short yet important article. "
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Windows Phone! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Damien and Carmelo!
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in PowerShell! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Noah, Richard, and Dan!
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SSRS! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Jens and Ricardo!
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SSAS! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
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SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
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Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
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Sticky - 2) How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios - More Detail
Sticky - How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios
Warning Flashing the bios can be bad for your PC's Health
DISCLAIMER:
This is a work-in-progress, not all solutions are "confirmed", use info at your own risk
Not all topics are covered, only stuff that keeps reapering in questions, or are thought to be important.
Before going ahead checkout When and how to update your BIOS
Note: Like reseting CMOS Flashing Bios will clear all any changes you made in bios & will need to be re-entered - see 12) below. So Make sure you remember/ make a note of them.
Resources:-
Floppy Images - Boot Disc.com
Simply insert Floppy & run downloaded Exe file.
Bios Saviour
IOSS Bios Saviour RD1-PMC4
Bios Saviour - RD1 Model Selection Sheet
SST 49LF040A LPC /3.3V - PMC4 For Neo3 250 & Neo4 (Thanks Arioch )
Recovery:-
MSI - Bios Recovery
Syar - Bios Recovery & Checksum Error
BIOS FAQ - How can you recover a corrupt BIOS ?
Bios recovery the dirty
way
Saving MurdoK's Bios - Syar
Offers Reprogramming/Replacement service - Cheaper than new mobo. Can't vouch for non uk service not used them. (1st off search engine)
EU Recoverybios.com
UK BiosflashUK
US Badflash.com
How to Flash MSI Guides.
There are different ways to flash the bios but to keep things simple will concentrate on the MSI Official methods :-
1) Award Flash BIOS Procedure 98/ME
This method assumes access to hd formatted using FAT32 & therefore readable by DOS.
2) Flashing the BIOS for Users using NON FAT file system
For use with Linux based & NTFS File systems - HD Not readable from DOS. Using this procedure the the files are copied to the virtual drive before running the flash utility. So the flash effectively is all done in memory.
This will be the method used by the majority of us. So:-
Follow the instructions in the last link (Thanks Bas)
The details below are additional checks/notes referring to the steps in Bas's guide, which may be useful.
Essential
2) Know Your model number - Is of increased Importance for NEO4 users - We have already seen instances of this.
5-1) Ensure you have a Boot Floppy with CD suport (this creates the Virtual drive used in the process) If you haven't got such
a boot disc see BootrDisc.com link in Rescources.
5-2) B4 booting floppy - Enter Bios & Load Optimised Defaults - To ensure that bios is returned to stock & any overclocking is
turned off.
7) If you miss the ramdrive letter the last DOS message will show your CD drive letter. The Ramdrive is the letter preceeding
the CD Drive. EG CD = D Ramdrive = C
Optional - Gives better control of procedure
11) Use of Switch command options with AWFL833C.EXE /py/sn/wb/cc/cd/cp/r TargetBios.file
Personnaly I use the switches as does Syar :-
Per Syar2003 Iv'e always used :
AWFL833D W7030NMS.xxx /py/sn/wb/cc/cd/cp/r
or
AWFL833D W7030NMS.xxx /py/sn/wb/cc/cd/cp/f/r
And a hard reset with jumper when done .
For a more detailed explanation of switches see :-
Syar's Bios Switch Explained
or Syar's Bios Collection - Flashing.txt
See Also Using a Batch File to Automate bios flash
12) after flash , enter Bios & load optimized defaults , then save + exit with no other change .
That way you have a fresh system with a fresh non problematic dmi-pool and user settings .
After this Enter Bios & Re-enter your custom settings.
From Syar - Which one do I do first?
Thanks to Bas & Syar for the majority of info in this guideHow to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios
General:-
How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios
Warning Flashing the bios can be bad for your PC's Health
DISCLAIMER:
This is a work-in-progress, not all solutions are "confirmed", use info at your own risk
Not all topics are covered, only stuff that keeps reapering in questions, or are thought to be important.
Before going ahead checkout When and how to update your BIOS
Note: Like reseting CMOS Flashing Bios will clear all any changes you made in bios & will need to be re-entered - see 12) below. So Make sure you remember/ make a note of them.
FLASH PREPARATION
Always Load Optimised defaults & Save b4 flashing - NEVER FLASH When running an OC or Unstable.
If you need to flash & are worried about stability - run with a single module & test it it memtest 1st.
FLASH METHODS
1) Winflash (Syar2003) -
Winflash is safe to use if your windows and pc is stable .
How to get it Download & install MSI Live Update. Winflash is located "C:\Program Files\MSI\Live Update 3\FlashUty\Award
And as with dos flash reset bios and any overclocking to "load optimized bios default" + save, before and after flashing.
After winflash is finished it ask if you want to reboot - answer no , and shutdown (turn off) windows/pc instead .
After that disconnect the PSU's AC and reset the cmos with the jumper on the board .
This is how I use it , - safest way .
Note ! Place checkmarks on bootblock / dmi area /update all /reset cmos
Using Winflash - Syar2003's GuideWinflash
2) MSI Guides for flashing using a floppy
2 Flavours depending on OS the majority of us use the 2nd as dos floppies can't read a NTDS partition.
2-1) Award Flash BIOS Procedure 98/ME
This method assumes access to hd formatted using FAT32 & therefore readable by DOS.
2-2) Flashing the BIOS for Users using NON FAT file system
For use with Linux based & NTFS File systems - HD Not readable from DOS. Using this procedure the the files are copied to the virtual drive before running the flash utility. So the flash effectively is all done in memory.
2) How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios - More Detail
Resources:-
Floppy Images - Boot Disc.com
Simply insert Floppy & run downloaded Exe file.
Bios Saviour
IOSS Bios Saviour RD1-PMC4
Bios Saviour - RD1 Model Selection Sheet
SST 49LF040A LPC /3.3V - PMC4 For Neo3 250 & Neo4 (Thanks Arioch )
Recovery:-
MSI - Bios Recovery
BIOS FAQ - How can you recover a corrupt BIOS ?
Bios recovery the dirty
way
Saving MurdoK's Bios - Syar
Offers Reprogramming/Replacement service - Cheaper than new mobo. Can't vouch for non uk service not used them. (1st off search engine)
EU Recoverybios.com
UK BiosflashUK
US Badflash.com
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Short Dunp While Creating a BP - Awarded points
Hello Guru's,
We have Implemented Accounts & Contact Magt in SAP CRM 4.0. I got a Ticket saying - An Account (BP) has created just and While Creating Contact person to the above Account they found a Short Dump.
500 SAP Internal Server Error
Err Msg: Error PXA_NO_FREE_SPACE occured. P1=3381248 P9=143360 (Type of termination: RABAX_STATE).
I tryed with Tcode ST22 in ABAP Runtime Error but i don't see any Shortdump. However the above error seems like No Free Space available. what could be the reason of the above Issue.
Could you Pls let me know the Solution & Ways to resolve the above Issue.
Awarded points for the best solution.
SrujanHello Srujan,
The PXA_NO_FREE_SPACE dump means that the program buffer, that is the buffer used to execute programs, was too small at the time of the execution; it could not store the application data and therefore dumps the application. This could be the result of a high system load (many people running many transactions/programs) or that the system parameter abap/buffersize is set too small.
Note that this problem is mostly temporarly, if it occurs often you should increase the physical amount of memory or increase the program buffer size.
Check OSS note 147568 for possible solutions and how to determine the correct amount for the system parameter abap/buffersize.
Hope this helps!
Reward points if useful!
Kind regards,
Joost -
MSI GAMING Products Awarded the 23rd Taiwan Excellence
The long-awaited 23nd Taiwan Excellence Awards were unveiled. A global leader and manufacturer of gaming hardware and solutions, MSI once again snatched the award. Total 8 of its products are awarded covering a new flagship laptop, custom designed motherboards for gaming and streaming, high-end graphics cards and gaming All-In-One PCs.
Authorized by the ROC Ministry of Economic Affairs' Bureau of Foreign Trade, Taiwan Excellence Awards are organized by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and conducted annually in an attempt to highlight MIT fine products overseas. Now in its 23rd year, the event drew 1,155 entries from 448 companies this year, winners have been seriously filtered by a panel of 91 scholars and industry professionals. Submissions are judged based on five main criteria: R&D, design, quality, marketing, and MIT. The fact that all MSI's awarded products are GAMING series has proven MSI's success in campaigning NO.1 in GAMING. MSI will pay close attention to the ever-changing video gaming markets.
MSI Taiwan Excellence Award winners: the powerful GT72 Dominator Pro laptop, X99S GAMING 9 ACK and Z97 GAMING 9 ACK motherboards equipped with Killer™ DoubleShot Pro, the high-performance GTX 980 GAMING 4G gaming graphics card, R9 270X GAMING 2G ITX graphics card for mini-ITX system, and finally the eye strain-reducing gaming All-In-One PCs, AG220 2PE, AG240 2PE and AG270 2PE. Noteworthily, among awarded products, the GT72 Dominator Pro and the X99S GAMING 9 ACK are prestigious CES Innovations 2015 honorees. Winning both awards at home and abroad has made MSI a distinguished Taiwan Excellence brand in global gaming.
MSI's flagship gaming laptop, the GT72 Dominator Pro, is equipped with the latest and most powerful NVIDIA GTX 980M graphics card. Geared with new SHIFT power usage technology, Dragon Gaming Center, SteelSeries Engine customization software and other cutting-edge components, GT72 Dominator Pro is the perfect choice for hardcore gamers.
X99S GAMING 9 ACK features first Killer LAN & Wireless gaming connection on a motherboard, powered by by Killer™ DoubleShot Pro network solution. The solution integrates Killer Ethernet and WiFi adapters which is built for superior online traffic speeds and low latency. In addition, Killer Smart Teaming allows the use of LAN and WI-FI at the same time with speeds up to 1.867 Gbps.Not noly GT72 but GT80 Titan is another wonderful story MSI tried to share with the world.
check this out!
Hands-on do GT80 Titan, notebook com teclado mecânico e foco em upgrades
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