Biztalk

when we send aany msg to a particaula Destination(For Example :Folder)  we get the filename as %MessageID%.xml
so the message ID will be the name of the file is there any way where we can get the Current Date in the name of the file?

There are no exclusive macros for date only. Because that will create duplicates in the output folder.
but if you are using any orchestrations then you can handle it like below
OutputMessage(FILE.ReceivedFilename) = System.DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd");
if you are not using any orchestrations, then you may have to use a custom pipeline or any other approach
to set the FILE.ReceivedFilename value to your needed date and at sendport set the %SourceFilename%
macro.
Also since you are only trying to get date, please remember to append something random value to this
date, otherwise the output files will be duplicated in the output folder and gets overwritten.
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    Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
    Server restart
    NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
    DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
    tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
    Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!" 
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
    combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
    Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
    Idan Vexler
    Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM  
    Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
    Omar Lopez (loplim)
    SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
    alert )
    Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Jayakumaur (JK)
    Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
    Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
    Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
    Durval Ramos
    Paging a Query with SQL Server
    Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
    Naomi N
    T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
    Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
    Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014  
    The Thinker 
    Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
    SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
    way, although the code is simple enough to work through." 
    MR: "Great tool code!" 
    Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
    iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!" 
    Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014  
    João Sousa
    ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
    NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
    Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
    Raghunathan S
    C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
    NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
    Raghunathan S
    Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
    NN: "Good article, but too short"
    Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Matthew Yarlett
    Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
    BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
    quality a lot."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
    PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
    NN: "Good article"
    Durval Ramos
    VBA & VBS Portal
    NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
    PG: "Nice article good start!"
    BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
    Mr X
    Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
    NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
    Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
    PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
    BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Isham Mohamed
    Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
    Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
    Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
    Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
    Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
    Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
    mcosmin
    The Performance Analyzer Paradox
    Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
    Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
    Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
    Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
    dev hedgehog
    Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
    Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
    Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
    JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
    JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
    Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
    Mr X
    How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
    JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
    JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
    Mahdi Tehrani
    Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
    JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
    JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
    Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
    ----------------- 8< -------------------
    As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
    Read all about THIS month's competition [usually in a stickied post] at the top of this forum, otherwise there is usually a list of forum links for this month's theme/announcement at the bottom of the submission page below:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23837.technet-guru-contributions-for-april-2014.aspx
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
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    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 the one and only
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    If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
    Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.

    Congrats to Tomasso, Steef-Jan, and Boatseller:
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Tomasso Groenendijk
    Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
    Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
    TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
    Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
    TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
    boatseller
    Detecting a Missing Message
    Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
    Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
    TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
    Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • BizTalk exposed WCF 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied WCF

    Im using BizTalk server 2010.cretaed Certificate in IIS and shared to client the same as a public cert.
     Im using httpsTransport with customBinding.followed below url
    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizintegration1/archive/2011/08/23/exposing-biztalk-orchestration-as-a-wcf-service-over-ssl.aspx
    When I try to Browse in BizTalk server with https, im able to browse, but in the client side, they are not able to browse
    and they get "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied." Is there anythng that needs to be set in BizTalk or the settings should be done at the client end?
    IIS autehntification mode is anonymous is configued.plz let me know anything to do in biztalk and IIS level
    Regards BizTalkWorship

    This is because your client has not provided the certificate while browsing the service URL.
    If they (client) have installed the certificate in correct folder and then while browsing folder the service, client should provide the certificate through browser.
    For Internet Explorer, a pop-up should with all the certificates
    installed in their personal store. They need to select the certificate that they already installed in it.
    Look into this article (from
    On the client side: section onwards) for how to browse the service from IE by providing the certificate.
    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asiatech/archive/2014/02/13/how-to-configure-iis-client-certificate-mapping-authentication-for-iis7.aspx
    Note: Above article is just relavant to you from
    On the client side: section onwards i.e for instructing your client to use certificate while browsing.
    FireFox
    You will get an error that says “HTTP Error 403.7 – Forbidden” “The page you are attempting to access requires your browser to have a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
    client certificate that the Web server recognizes.”
    In
    FireFox go to Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> Encryption –> View Certificates
    Click import and select the certificate with private key file you exported earlier (the .pfx file)
    You will need to clear history now or restart browser
    Just FYI for installing certifate correctly in client side, if they use Windows (off-course):
    MMC, add certificate snap-in for “current user”
    Browse to Certificates (Current User) –> Personal –> Certificates
    Right click this node and select All Tasks and Import from the popup menu
    Follow the steps in the wizard, selecting the public certificate you have shared o client.
    Regards,
    M.R.Ashwin Prabhu
    If this answers your question please mark it accordingly. If this post is helpful, please vote as helpful by clicking the upward arrow mark next to my reply.

  • More Guru Winners for February 2015 in the BizTalk category and many others!

    It's been a busy week that also saw the
    TECHNET WIKI SUMMIT 2015
    Then we had the results for
    February's TechNet Guru competition ALSO posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/03/19/technet-guru-february-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 in the link above.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting a custom pipeline component with ETW
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group."
    Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
    Vignesh Sukumar
    BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
    Sandro Pereira: "Great job on this article! Well explained and nice pictures, however the article format need to be improved and some proofreading is need"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Welcome to the 'I heart BAM' fan club. Nice job on this topic. A MUST read for new-to-BAM users. "
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting BAM Activity Tracking with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
    Mandi Ohlinger: "ETW for BAM Activities - LOVE it. Nice use of the Framework. "
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Filter objects on export
    PG: "Simple, targeted but nice article, nice layout. "
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice. Would be perfect with a complete code sample."
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Azure Mobile Services: How to see the log files in server
    JH: "Log files are one of the most important things in a production environment. This article shows hows you can do that for the Azure Mobile Services in a nice and easy way."
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Very useful topic! These are a great set of articles!"
    saramgsilva
    Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published
    Ed Price: "Great detail and fantastic use of images! I love all the in-line links!"
    JH: "Sometimes it is hard to tell when working in a multi-environment what configuration was published to the Server. The article shows short and easy how to do that for the Azure Mobile Services."
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Arleta Wanat
    Retrieve all site mailboxes in your Office 365 tenant
    Durval Ramos: "This article has a well content, images and code that help to understand the solution. It has References and was Translated into more two languages. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good links. A great tutorial."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: No Need to BringIntoView
    Durval Ramos: "A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read. This script is useful"
    Richard Mueller: "Good demonstration of a new feature."
    Chen V
    PowerShell : Enable Auto Reply for Shared Mail Box
    Durval Ramos: " A good solution originated of TechNet Forum. The script and images make it easy to understand and ensure you get the best interest to reader."
    Richard Mueller: "Good documentation of this feature."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Geetanjali Arora
    SharePoint Online : Performing Batch Operations using REST API
    KB: "Very well explained article on a new and much awaited feature. Although Andrew Connell already explained this topic in several posts, this article still contains added value."
    Ed Price: "I love the History section. The formatting is amazing. And the References and See Also sections at the bottom are great icing on the cake. This is an important topic that's done incredibly well!"
    Matthew Yarlett
    Using the SpellCheck Webservice with the TinyMCE Richtext Editor and
    AngularJS in Office 365
    KB: "I read this article with growing interest, it contains a lot of added value. Very well and in-depth explanation. "
    Ed Price: "Great scenario! Good use of images, code, detail, and References! Could possibly use a greater breakdown and explanation of the code. This article just gets more and more interesting and valuable as you read it! Great job!"
    Arleta Wanat
    SharePoint Online: Turn on support for multiple content types
    in a list or library using Powershell
    KB: "Really nice, interesting and detailed article!"
    Ed Price: "The Content Types section helps explain this a lot! I also love the downloads at the end. What a fantastic resource!"
     Small Basic Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Key Input
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great improvement."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation and examples of key input handling"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic: The History of the Logo Turtle
    RZ: "Turtle (Logo) was the first programming language for many, including perhaps some of the Small Basic prorammers. Nice article explaining the history."
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "A nice background article and hopefull inspiration for those who want to start in robotics"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: TechNet Wiki Article List
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is great! Perfect as a local cache of the articles. "
    RZ: "A good example"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Sylvain PONTOREAU
    PowerBI API in .Net
    RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)"
    PT: "Sylvain, very nice job with this. This is a timely topic about an emerging product that has great potential. This is a very good example of a well-written post on an interesting subject with enough information to be valuable to a
    solution developer. I will personally take time to explore the Power BI API and use your examples. "
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Ronen Ariely
    SQL Server Books Online
    AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. It is quite informative and let us get familiar with BOL after the change from previous versins."
    Ed Price: "Nice! A very helpful introduction to Books Online! It also tells my technical writer friends that their hard work is appreciated! =^)"
    Durval Ramos
    How to Collect Events and Errors on SQL Server
    Ed Price: "Fantastic solution! A great resource that's amazingly well written with formatting, clear parameters, images, References, and a See Also section! And it even comes in Portuguese! Great article!"
    AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. A good source to learn about our SQL Server instances. "
     System Center Technical Guru - February 2015  
    MarkusEliasson
    Troubleshoot ID 32008: DPM cannot
    protect this SharePoint farm...
    Ed Price: "An important topic that's very clear with great formatting and a good use of an image!"
    t.c.rich
    Managing Priorities of Client Polices and A/V Policies in SCCM
    Ed Price: "I love the descriptions, breakdown of sections, and code formatting! Great article!" 
    Mr X
    How to copy SMSTS.log when a Task Sequence fails in SCCM
    Ed Price: "A very helpful table and a good contribution to the community! Mr X again thinks of important content gaps to fill!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How the Order of Elements in the ORDER BY Clause Implemented in the Output Result
    Durval Ramos: "Very well structured and with examples that clarify how a T-SQL statement can change the data output order."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines and great examples."
    Ronen Ariely
    Free E-Books about SQL and Transact-SQL languages
    Richard Mueller: "An excellent collection and a great idea."
    Durval Ramos: "A good initiative. Very useful !!!"
    Ricardo Lacerda
    Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals
    - Accumulated Earnings
    Durval Ramos: "The "Window function" sample was well presented, but it was unclear how the chart was generated."
    Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work"
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Emiliano Musso
    Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic
    MR: "Great article! Love to see an application for AI in a simple game"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is well documented with images and your code clarifying important details. It also has References, a very useful video and your project available for download in "MSDN Code" !"
    Richard Mueller: "Incredible concept and code. Grammar needs work."
    Paul Ishak
    MultiHeadedTrackBar Control
    Durval Ramos: "Very interesting article, with methods and properties well documented. Your project was available in "MSDN Code" which facilitates the understanding of solution."
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing work. Extensive code but with lots of comments. Needs a TOC"
    tommytwotrain
    Using Trigonometry to draw graphic curves in VB.NET part 2.
    MR: "Great continuation. Love the usage of the code for circle text"
    Durval Ramos: "The article is interesting, but It's need to work better commenting about assemblies referenced on project and also structure your content into sections."
    Richard Mueller: "Good tutorial and example code demonstrating basic concepts. Avoid first person."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Magnus (MM8)
    C#: Enumerating collections that change
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has a thorough and to the point explanation of problem and the solution with code samples. Loved it!"
    Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful and exhaustive about errors at runtime in these circumstances. Congratulations"
    Andy ONeill
    c#: Practical Poly
    Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic artcle. Very detailed and exhaustive, congratulations ."
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Definitely worth reading this. Explains somewhat advance topic along with a fundamental concept of programming. "
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Durval Ramos
    Wiki: Microsoft Short URLs Personalized by SXP
    PG: "Nice idea, lots of potential to grow, really needs some more community attention."
    Richard Mueller: "An excellent idea. Good use of Wiki guidelines."
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Carmelo La Monica
    Windows Phone 8: control Nokia Maps (Part 3)
    JH: "Part 3 of the series how to work with the Nokia maps control. As the previous articles this one contains a lot of code snippets and some pictures. Good work!"
    Ed Price: "A great topic, a fantastic breakdown of sections with clear descriptions, and a nice mix of code formatting and helpful images! Another stellar article from Carmelo! Great job including the link back at the end to the portal
    article!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Richard Mueller
    Document Your Active Directory Organization
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article, congratulations!!! Very detailed!"
    Chen V: "Excellent Article - I liked return to top as well."
    Ed Price: "Wow! It's like a professional whitepaper! It's a valuable topic that's done with intricate detail! I love the images, diagrams, code blocks, and it ends very well with more resources and Wiki articles! The article just keeps
    digging deeper and deeper! Awesome job on this!"
    DexterPOSH
    PowerShell + REST API : Invoke-RestMethod Gotcha
    Chen V: "Good Article. TOC might have made this more rich! "
    Ed Price: "This is a good topic with some great content. It could benefit from sections and a TOC, as well as a References and See Also sections at the end. The inline links are helpful. Could "
    DexterPOSH
    PowerShell Trick : Search & highlight text in MS Word
    Ed Price: "This is a great solution, with some helpful Q&A in the comments!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Lookless Controls
    KJ: "WPF can definitely be confusing when devs first encounter it. Like the way you break it down."
    Ed Price: "Wow! Fantastic explanations that are very clear and deep! The images and code bring it to life!"
    Andy ONeill
    Only One Parent
    KJ: "Same iwith this one, good 101 intro"
    Ed Price: "Another great tip! I love the detail here as well! Those snippets help a lot!"
    Andy ONeill
    Bind to Current Item of Collection
    KJ: "Feel like this topic has a lot of coverage out there, but it can't hurt to hammer on databinding yet one more time :) "
    Ed Price: "Fantastic topic with great execution! Although these could benefit from References and See Also wiki sections at the end, the Inline links help a lot!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Mr X
    Ping for Beginners
    Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content."
    JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution."
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting"
    Richard Mueller
    Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
    Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties."
    JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing."
    Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea."
    Richard Mueller
    Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
    Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information."
    JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!"
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article !"
    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,
    THERE'S STILL TIME! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
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    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 Steef-Jan and Vignesh!
     BizTalk Technical Guru - February 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting a custom pipeline component with ETW
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group."
    Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
    Vignesh Sukumar
    BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
    Sandro Pereira: "Great job on this article! Well explained and nice pictures, however the article format need to be improved and some proofreading is need"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Welcome to the 'I heart BAM' fan club. Nice job on this topic. A MUST read for new-to-BAM users. "
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting BAM Activity Tracking with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
    Mandi Ohlinger: "ETW for BAM Activities - LOVE it. Nice use of the Framework. "
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • How to handle rpc/encoded style messages using BizTalk?

    I am integrating with a lot of services and one of our customers has a service with rpc/encoded style
    I could consume and generate schema from their wsdl file via BizTalk consume WCF wizard.
    Once I am trying to call the service with request message that generated from the schema, it is giving an error that can not desterilize the first element of the message. 
    No Deserializer found to deserialize a 'FieldName' using encoding style 'null'
    I compared the stub xml request message from SaopUI and I noticed that the xml expecting the data type with the element like this .
    <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wsb="WSBanka">
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
    <wsb:bnkBorcsorgulama soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
    <sozlesmeNo xsi:type="xsd:string">?</sozlesmeNo>
    <bankaKodu xsi:type="xsd:string">?</bankaKodu>
    <anahtar xsi:type="xsd:string">?</anahtar>
    </wsb:bnkBorcsorgulama>
    </soapenv:Body>
    </soapenv:Envelope>
    On the other hand, I got the request of the message from Fiddler using the BizTalk , and the generate xml of the BizTalk schema without the data type.
    <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wsb="WSBanka">
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
    <wsb:bnkBorcsorgulama>
    <sozlesmeNo>?</sozlesmeNo>
    <bankaKodu>?</bankaKodu>
    <anahtar>?</anahtar>
    </wsb:bnkBorcsorgulama>
    </soapenv:Body>
    </soapenv:Envelope>
    In SoapUi, if I remove a datatype from the message, I will get same error from the BizTalk request.
    I read some articles that rpc/encoded style are not supported but I am not sure and these articles are not clear.
    I also read that it was supported with Soap adapter but now it is deprecated.
    So, Is there any one has an experience in rpc/encoded style messages and how to handle these message in BizTalk or is there any work around to handle these messages?
    Your inputs really appreciate it.
    Thanks in advance,
    When you see answers and helpful posts, please click Vote As Helpful, Propose As Answer, and/or Mark As Answer

    Hi,
    Please refer to the document which might help you:
    #RPC/Encoded Style
    http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/martinkropp/DesigningInteroperableWebService11232005044847AM/DesigningInteroperableWebService.aspx

  • Domain users creation for BizTalk server 2013 installation

    Hi all,
    I am setting up biztalk 2013 environment clustered BizTalk server and single sql server. I would like to know the list of domain users and domain groups to be created and which groups these users to be a member of. I am also installing and would be using
    Sharepoint to develop BizTalk interfaces.
    Thanks 
    Please Help
    Vikram

    Hi Vikram ,
    You need to create below Windows group on your AD before you start your BizTalk  Configuration .
    1)SSO Administrators:Administrator of the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) service.
    2)SSO Affiliate Administrators :Administrators of certain SSO affiliate applications.Can create/delete SSO affiliate applications, administer user mappings, and set credentials for affiliate application users.
    3)BizTalk Server Administrators:Has the least privileges necessary to perform administrative tasks Can deploy solutions, manage applications, and resolve message processing issues.
    To perform administrative tasks for adapters, receive and send handlers, and receive locations, the BizTalk Server Administrators must be added to the Single Sign-On Affiliate Administrators.
    4)BizTalk Server Operators:Has a low privilege role with access only to monitoring and troubleshooting actions
    5) BizTalk Application Users:The default name of the first In-Process BizTalk Host Group created by Configuration Manager.Use one BizTalk Host Group for each In-Process host in your environment.Includes accounts with access to In-Process
    BizTalk Hosts (hosts processes in BizTalk Server, BTSNTSvc.exe).
    6)BizTalk Isolated Host Users :The default name of the first Isolated BizTalk Host Group created by Configuration Manager. Isolated BizTalk hosts not running on BizTalk Server, such as HTTP and SOAP.Use one BizTalk Isolated Host Group for
    each Isolated Host in your environment.
    7)BAM Portal Users :Has access to BAM Portal Web site.
    8)BizTalk SharePoint Adapter Enabled Hosts :Has access to Windows SharePoint Services Adapter Web Service
    9)BizTalk B2B Operators Group : A new BizTalk role that reduces the onus on the Administrators to perform all Party management operation. This role allows windows users associated with the role to perform all party management operations.
    Now coming to domain User , you can have single -multiple setting were you can run SSO ,InProcess and Isolated on different domain user  .  You can also run all the configuration settings on single user as well .
    Thanks
    Abhishek

  • BizTalk Mapper - Looping multiple nodes to map to a single node in a single row (flat file)

    Hi everybody,
    I'm still new in developing BizTalk app and require some help in this one problem. Appreciate your time and input to help me on this.
    Basically I have an XML document as input and a flat file as output. Example for input is as per below. The "Contact" node's maxOccurs here is set to unbounded and could be multiple. (phone, fax, website, telex ...)
    <root>
    <CustomerName>Company A</CustomerName>
    <Contact>
    <Type>Phone</Type>
    <Locator>03566789</Locator>
    <Type>Phone</Type>
    <Locator>03566790</Locator>
    <Type>Fax</Type>
    <Locator>03566795</Locator>
    <Type>Telex</Type>
    <Locator>03566798</Locator>
    <Type>Website</Type>
    <Locator>www.companyA.com</Locator>
    </Contact>
    </root>
    The expected output in XML would look like below. The final outcome would be a csv file. Strictly Phone 1, phone 2, fax and telex, the rest would be ignored.
    <root>
    <CustomerName>Company A</CustomerName>
    <Phone1>03566789</Phone1>
    <Phone2>03566790</Phone2>
    <Fax>03566795</Fax>
    <Telex>03566798</Telex>
    </root>
    Example of expected output result (csv file): CompanyName;Phone1;Phone2;Fax;Telex;
    In our case here: Company A;03566789;03566790;03566795;03566798;
    Another example could be: Company B;036778911;;036778912;; if only 1 phone number and 1 fax number provided.
    I've used Table Looping and Table Extractor and nearly got the desired result except that it is represented in multiple rows instead of one: Example:
    Company A;03566789;;;
    Company A;;03566790;;;
    Company A;;;03566795;;
    Company A;;;;03566798;
    Any idea how to do the mapping? I'm kind of stuck here and it sounds like an easy problem but i could not find any example to the solution that I need here. Table looping and table extractor is ok to map from single node flat file to multiple nodes but not
    the reverse like in this example.
    rgds,
    sportivo

    Hi,
    Please refer to below links where similar issue has been answered.
    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkgeneral/thread/ecdff241-6795-4a95-bad7-48fca4410dfb
    http://www.epinaki.com/2011/05/other-options-to-using-biztalk-table-looping-functoid-par-i/
    I hope this helps you.
    Thanks With Regards,
    Shailesh Kawade
    MCTS BizTalk Server
    Please Mark This As Answer If This Helps You.
    http://shaileshbiztalk.blogspot.com/

  • Not able to get the details of messages in BizTalk Server

    I have Biztalk Server 2010 setup. I have created a sample message and tried to check the application by sending the message(using FILE protocol). I am getting the message at the send port successfully but I can't find any entry in the database for any
    of the message, in any of the tables (InstanceStateMessageReferences_BizTalkServerApplication, Spool, Instances, etc.). I have created receive location and send port on the same server. I want it for monitoring purpose. Am I missing some configuration
    or something else ?

    Hi,
    As stated above if you need to check the message or message properties then you would need to enable tracking, depending on where you want it to be and what you want to track, below are two articles which should help you understand more:
    BizTalk Server: Tracking Data Using BizTalk Admin Console
    BizTalk Server: Checking Tracked Data Using Admin Console
    Maheshkumar
    S Tiwari|User
    Page|Blog|BizTalk
    Server: Multiple XML files to Single FlatFile Using File Adapter

  • How we can limit the number of concurrent calls to a WCF service without use the Singleton pattern or without do the change in BizTalk Configuration file?

    How can we send only one message to a WCF service at a time? How we can limit the number of concurrent calls to a WCF service without use the Singleton pattern or without do the change in BizTalk Configuration file? Can we do it by Host throttling?

    Hi Pawan,
    You need to use WCF-Custom adapter and add the ServiceThrottlingBehavior service behavior to a WCF-Custom Locations.
    ServiceThrottlingBehavior.MaxConcurrentCalls - Gets or sets a value that specifies the maximum number of messages actively processing across a ServiceHost. The MaxConcurrentCalls property specifies the maximum number of messages actively
    processing across a ServiceHost object. Each channel can have one pending message that does not count against the value of MaxConcurrentCalls until WCF begins to process it.
    Follow MSDN-
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee377035%28BTS.10%29.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.description.servicethrottlingbehavior.maxconcurrentcalls.aspx
    I hope this helps.
    Rachit
    If this answers your question please mark it accordingly. If this post is helpful, please vote as helpful by clicking the upward arrow mark next to my reply.

  • BizTalk TechNet Gurus Announced for June 2014!

    The Results are in! and the winners of the TechNet Guru Competition June 2014 have been posted on the
    Wiki Ninjas Blog.
    Below is a summary, heavily trimmed to fit the size restrictions of forum posting.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server: Custom Archiving
    TGN: "This one was my favorite this month. Archiving is a topic that is brought up often. Well done explaining it simply and how to do it according to best practice"
    Sandro Pereira: "Love the topic, well explain and with everything you need, my favorite."
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great addition to the Wiki. "
    boatseller
    BizTalk: Reducing and Consolidating WCF Serialization Schema Types
    TGN: "Very good, keeping the code clean, and only referencing what you need and consolidate it is important!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Great solution to somewhat-annoying behavior. Nice addition to the Wiki!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Great article."
    Murugesan Mari Chettiar
    How to Implement Concurrent FIFO Solution in BizTalk Server
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough in your explanations! Great formatting. Good job!"
    TGN: "First in, first out. Great article Murugesan!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Good additional to the TechNet Wiki, good work."
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Remi Vandemir
    Custom Reports in FIM2010R2
    AM: "Great step-by-step guide for generating custom reports. Thanks for taking the time to put this together."
    PG: "Nice article, in an area that is less known!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very comprehensive."
    Ed Price: "Great job on the intro, and a lot of images really help clarify all the steps!"
    GO: "Thank you "
    Eihab Isaac
    FIM 2010 R2: Review pending export changes to Active Directory using XSLT
    Ed Price: "Great introduction, great steps, and great job on the image and code formatting!"
    GO: "An introduction, a sample code, images, a TOC and a conclusion. Nothing here to preserve the GOLD medal!"
    PG: "Nice article!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice and precise"
    Scott Eastin
    A Practical Alternative to the PeopleSoft
    AM: "Thank you for sharing. Great (and probably superior) alternative for those using PeopleSoft as import-only data source."
    GO: "Amazing article, love it so much"
    PG: "Would like to see more elaborated details in this article."
    Søren Granfeldt: "A little more technical stuff would be nice"
    Ed Price: "Some good community collaboration in removing blog-like personalization. This is a great topic with some good holistic thinking!"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Mr X
    Configuration of WATM (Windows Azure Traffic Manager) for Web Portals hosted
    on Azure VMs
    JH: "Two simple words: Love it! The detailed explanation on how Traffic Manager works is awesome."
    Ed Price: "Wow! Incredibly well written, with beautiful diagrams and a great use of images and tables! Great topic!"
    GO: "This is a great article! Thanks Mr.X"
    Mr X
    How to use Windows Azure as Traffic Manager for Web portals
    hosted in multiple on-premise datacenters
    JH: "Very detailed! Great explanation at the beginning followed by a good step-by-step guide."
    Ed Price: "A much needed article! Great job on the formatting and images!"
    GO: "Thanks again, MR.X"
    Mr X
    How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure
    GO: "I really enjoyed reading this article, clever and well written. Lovely done!"
    JH: "Great article! I especially love the amount of pictures provided in the article."
    Ed Price: "Good procedural article! Great use of images!"
     Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Mr X
    How to open Visio files without Visio
    AH: "This Article is pretty basic and lacks details. Visio Viewer doesn't just open in IE but also in Outlook and File explorer. The writer should include the link to http://blogs.office.com/2012/11/28/download-the-free-microsoft-visio-viewer/
    this blog which has lot more details "
    Ed Price: "Good. I think the SEO on the title will drive more awareness of the Visio Viewer."
    GO: "Thanks you Mr.X! Again a great article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Yammer: Announcements Feature
    TGN: "Wow, not only is this a good way on how to write annoncments on Yammer, but in generel. Really, really great write-up Ed! T"
    GO: "Tord says on the comment section: "Very nice article, Ed. I really enjoyed reading it and you had a great set of tips. Thanks for sharing!".. I only can respond AMEN! Thanks Ed!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good discussion of announcements feature."
    Anthony Caragol
    Backing Up and Restoring Lync 2013 Contacts
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Short & Sweet"
    GO: "Great article, but I'm missing, examples, images, definitions etc for a huge section like "backup and restore""
    TGN: "Very good, Lync has eaten up the market and is a key product in most companies, articles like this is very valuable. Great work Anthony!"
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Geetanjali Arora
    SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles
    Benoît Jester: "A very good article, a must-read for those interested by SharePoint Online and the use of search and user profile API."
    Jinchun Chen: "Excellent. Just a tip, if you would like to improve the performance, please use the Search Service to search user profiles"
    Craig Lussier: "Good walkthrough and code example for getting started with People Search!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good starter for working with search and profiles"
    Jaydeep Mungalpara
    Creating Bookmarks in Wiki Pages - SharePoint Rich Text Editor Extension
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Really cool! In the past, I was actually looking for this and its a nice implementation of this functionality. This article gets my vote!"
    Craig Lussier: "Great solution for extending out of the box functionality. I like the synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery!"
    GO: "Simple but powerfull. We should all take an example about how this article has been written. This article has a TOC, headings and even a code! Well done!"
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice. "
    Benoît Jester: "A simple button which can save a lot of time!"
    Dan Christian
    PowerShell to copy or update list items across SharePoint sites and farms
    GO: "The best artice for June! Thanks Dan, you deserve the GOLD medal!"
    Benoît Jester: "A good article with useful scripts, as they can be used fior many scenarios (data refresh, migration tests, ...)"
    Jinchun Chen: "Good and low-cost solution. To be automatic, we can use EventHandle instead. "
    Craig Lussier: "Nice PowerShell script solution and explanation of the scenario. Consider using functions with parameters for easier reuse so input parameters are not hard coded."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "This script can be useful, although typically migration scenarios are more complex than this. Having said that, I probably end up using this script some time in in the future"
     Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2014  
    litdev
    Small Basic: Sprite Arrays
    Ed Price: "An important topic that's well described with fantastic examples! Great article!"
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great starter for Sprite Fundamentals and how to handle them. Briljant start point for greating you 2D shooter"
    Jibba Jabba
    Small Basic - Monthly Challenge Statistics
    Ed Price: "Jibba Jabba brings us astonishing insights and data about LitDev's Small Basic Monthly Challenges!"
    RZ: "This is very nicely done and showed all the statistics visually"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Challenge of the Month
    RZ: "This is very nicely done and organized all challenges of the month in one place"
    Ed Price: "Although this is very basic, it's incredibly helpful to get all these in one list and to access all the great challenges!"
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good explainer on  fundamental structures."
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Anil Maharjan
    Using Power Query to tell your story form your Facebook Data
    Jinchun Chen: "Interesting. I liked this best"
    PT: "Plenty to like here" 
    Ed Price: "Great! I love to see Power Query articles like this! Great formatting and use of images!"
    Tim Pacl
    SSRS Expressions: Part 1 - Program Flow
    PT: "A very comprehensive article about program flow expressions. Nice job. I'm sure many will benefit from this article. Just a little feedback about some terminology that could be more clear: The entire statement that
    is typically used to set a property value for an object in an SSRS report is an "expression". Each of the three programming constructs you've mentioned (e.g. IIF, SWITCH & CHOOSE) are "functions" and not expressions or statements."
    Jinchun Chen: "Perfect! Good article for SSRS newbie." 
    Ed Price: "The table and images help bring it more value. Great job!"
    Anil Maharjan
    How to Schedule and Automate backups of all the SSAS catalogs within the
    Server Instance
    PT: "This is a very useful article about automating multiple Analysis Services database backups using an SSIS package and the SQL Server Agent. Nice job."
    Jinchun Chen: "Good." 
    Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could be improved with better code formatting. Good job!"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Shanky
    SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify
    in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
    DB: "Interesting and detailed"
    DRC: "• This is a good article and provides details of each and every step and the output with explanation. Very well formed and great information. • We can modify the create table query with “DEFAULT VALUES". CREATE TABLE [dbo].[INDEXCOMPRESSION](
    [C1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [C2] [char](50) NULL DEFAULT 'DEFAULT TEST DATA' ) ON [PRIMARY]"
    GO: "Very informative and well formed article as Said says.. Thanks for that great ressource. "
    Durval Ramos
    How to get row counts for all Tables
    GO: "As usual Durva has one of the best articles about SQL Server General and Database Engine articles! Thanks, buddy!" "
    Jinchun Chen: "Another great tip!"
    PT: "Nice tip" 
    Ed Price: "Good topic, formatting, and use of images. This would be far better if the examples didn't require the black bars in the images. So it would be better to scrub the data before taking the screenshots. Still a good article. Thank
    you!"
     System Center Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Prajwal Desai
    Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
    Ed Price: "Great depth on this article! Valuable topic. Good use of images."
    Mr X
    How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
    pools using Orchestrator
    MA: "Good job Mr X, However I would like to see this runbook integrated as a recovery task with Operations Manager IISapppools Monitors in order to maintain a standard way of notifications and availability reporting."
    Ed Price: "Good formatting on the images, and great scenario!"
    Prajwal Desai
    How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
    Ed Price: "Great job documenting the entire process!!!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords
    JS: "I loved the article, well structured, to the point. Not missing any caveats that might occur, really good in the end. I would suggest changing the function to accept a whitelist / blacklist as well as a length of
    the password to be created. This would be the cherry on the pie :-)"
    Samuel Lester: "Very nice writeup for a real world problem!"
    Richard Mueller: "Clever and apparently well researched. I liked the detailed step by step explanations."
    Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!"
    Manoj Pandey: "A good and handy utility TSQL that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
    Hasham Niaz
    T-SQL : Average Interval Length
    Richard Mueller: "A good article, but I need more explanation of the concepts."
    Manoj Pandey: "A handy TSQL script that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
    Visakh16
    T-SQL: Retrieve Connectionstring Details from SSIS Package
    Manoj Pandey: "Good shortcut by using TSQL with XML to read metadata information from SSIS XML file."
    Samuel Lester: "Handy trick, thanks for posting!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good code, but more explanation needed. Could use a See Also section."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2014  
    The Thinker
    Better to Ask for forgiveness then permission
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of images and code. The humorous title might be better in a blog."
    MR: "Great topic!"
    GO: "Well, to be honnest, many people worked on that article, but still, the owner "the thinker" should receive the credits! muchos gracias "The Thinker" for the Most Revised Article"
     Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Jaliya Udagedara
    Entity Framework Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations
    and Fluent API
    Ed Price: "Wow. Good descriptions, great code snippets, and great job highlighting sections on your images!"
    GO: "Thank you."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - June 2014  
    XAML guy
    History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
    Ed Price: "It's amazing to see all the details of what this tool does. Great job on the descriptions and formatting the images and text!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great documentation. Good links to explain everything."
    GO: "I love your articles XAML guy! Always clear and always a pleasure to read! Thanks for you help and commitment for this tool."
    Durval Ramos
    HTML5 Portal
    Ed Price: "This is great to see this HTML5 resource!"
    Richard Mueller: "A great contribution to our collection of portals"
    GO: "The HTML5 Portal is A-W-E-S-O-M-E !"
    João Sousa
    ASP.NET Portal
    Ed Price: "Good job on this portal! The Return to top links are helpful!"
    Richard Mueller: "More should be done to distinguish this portal from
    here."
    GO: "Thanks Joao!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Dave Smits
    Theming of your application
    Peter Laker: "Another great article from the mighty Dave. Very useful. Not sure if MS like us want us to work around the accents so much though ;)"
    Ed Price: "Very useful topic and great formatting on the code! Could benefit from more explanation on the code toward the bottom and a See Also section. Great article!"
    saramgsilva
    Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio
    Peter Laker: "A great introduction! Nice walkthrough, and plenty to look at!"  
    Ed Price: "This is good. I love the narrative and use of images! Good conclusion!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Create Universal Application with Windows Phone App Studio (en-US).
    Peter Laker: "Sensational article. A real attention grabber and written very clearly."  
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the narrative and images. Some amazing articles this month!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: How To Tab Between Items In a ListBox
    KJ: "This article seemed very useful to me. The kind of thing that I might need and here's the answer."
    GO: "Thanks for that great article!."
    Ed Price: "Another amazing article from Magnus! Great job on the topic choice (very needed scenario), formatting, code, explanations, and See Also section. Fantastic article!"
    Sugumar Pannerselvam
    Lets forget about limitations and temprorary fix... Think about 4.5 features
    KJ: "Wish there were code samples and more flushed out scenarios"
    GO: "Why second place? the layout and way to explain didn't convince me. Doesn't mean that the article is bad. The article is awesome; but it's missing something."
    Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Could benefit from adding in some code snippet examples and images. Good topic choice."
     Windows Server Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Mr X
    DHCP on Windows Servers – Why are the expired IP addresses not getting re-assigned?
    JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Important information with good explanation. Needs a See Also section."
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like how it's explained versus Windows Server. An image with the DHCP's process could be a good addition for reference. (DHCP OFFER, DHCP ACK, etc..)"
    Mr X
    How to force a DHCP database cleanup for expired leases in a specific scope
    GO: "I'm actually thinking that nobody can defaut you Mr.X"
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I would add that changing the lease time to be shorted could help too."
    JM: "A very good article, however you might consider adding this content as a section in your article about expired IP addresses in DHCP"
    Richard Mueller: "More good information. Should be linked to the other DHCP article."
    GL: "This is OK but a better solution for a highly utilized DHCP scope would be to shorten the lease time and/or configure a superscope."
    Hicham KADIRI
    Windows Server Core 2012 R2 - Initial configuration
    GL: "This is good required information. I would really like to see information added about how to add a server role. You might consider providing PowerShell alternatives to the netsh and other commands."  
    JM: "This is a great to-the-point article on how to configure a Core install of Windows Server, nice work."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of useful tools. Some could use images, more detail, or examples. The example sections could be added to the Table of Contents."
    GO: "Well, our new french MVP! Well written Hicham! Do not forget to pray attention for the layout! It's capital for readers and judges!"
    Philippe Levesque: "I like the article, a good resumé of the command you need to do to configure a server."
    Don't forget the full version, with runners up is available
    here.
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    Congrats to Steef-Jan, Boatseller, and Murugesan! And thanks to all the contributors! Great articles this month!
     BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server: Custom Archiving
    TGN: "This one was my favorite this month. Archiving is a topic that is brought up often. Well done explaining it simply and how to do it according to best practice"
    Sandro Pereira: "Love the topic, well explain and with everything you need, my favorite."
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great addition to the Wiki. "
    boatseller
    BizTalk: Reducing and Consolidating WCF Serialization Schema Types
    TGN: "Very good, keeping the code clean, and only referencing what you need and consolidate it is important!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Great solution to somewhat-annoying behavior. Nice addition to the Wiki!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Great article."
    Murugesan Mari Chettiar
    How to Implement Concurrent FIFO Solution in BizTalk Server
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough in your explanations! Great formatting. Good job!"
    TGN: "First in, first out. Great article Murugesan!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Good additional to the TechNet Wiki, good work."
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    BizTalk Server and Sentinet - Protocol Mediation REST to SOAP by
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Ed Price: "Thanks for digging into this important topic. Amazing job on the diagrams and images!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Was missing this topic in the TechNet Wiki, great article!"
    TGN: "You've put a lot of effort into this one. Sentinet is a good addition to BizTalk development, great work Steef-Jan."
    BizTalk: Passing variables into maps by
    Alastair Grant
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Nice use of the ThreadStatic attribute!"
    TGN: "Nice article, and it is true every now and then you need that variable into the map!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Good example, however this approach comes with little performance hit also and in some scenarios you can also find yourself in particular dangerous situation, for example if you don’t validate if the static singleton instance
    object still exist or not in the code you obtain “object reference not set to an instance of an object”"
    BizTalk: SQL Patterns for Polling and Batch Retreive by
    boatseller
    Sandro Pereira: "Good work and good article."
    Ed Price: "Good topic with great use of images and code formatting!"
    TGN: "This is really good. I can see you spent time on this one. Great work!"
    BizTalk Server : Scheduling Orchestration using Trigger Message by
    Maheshkumar S Tiwari
    Mandi Ohlinger: "This is a must-read when using scheduled receive in BizTalk! LOVE the Codeplex adapter. "
    Sandro Pereira: "As one of the persons in charge for this adapter... I must say I love it!"
    TGN: "Good one, an article that is very valuable for the community."
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • Calling all BizTalk users! May TechNet Gurus announced!

    The results for May's
    TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/01/16/technet-guru-awards-december-2013.aspx
    Congratulations to all our new Gurus for May!
    We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
    Post your JUNE contributions here:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/24692.technet-guru-contributions-for-june-2014.aspx
    Read all about June's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for May. 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 - May 2014  
    Peter Lindgren
    BizTalk 2010: Call SSO from Orchestration
    TGN: "I bet a few people will love you for this, I often see this question at the forums, and you answered it well. Good work!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Great topic and great explanation. It also makes SSO seem less scary :)"
    Sandro Pereira: "Very useful sample, well explained with all the necessary code "
    boatseller
    BizTalk: Using an Orchestration Sync or Async
    Sandro Pereira: "Good sample provide by boatseller and well explained."
    TGN: "Hey, great work man! This is a well done article and I love it!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Exposing data through BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections
    Sandro Pereira: "Nice article with a good overview about BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections and how you can configure them."
    TGN: "Good article, well explained and good pictures. Again Steef-Jan, you know what you're doing!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Nice set-up overview. "
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Sheldon.Jaquay
    Forefront Identity Manager - RCDC - Regular Expression
    AM: "Great contribution! Option C is clever, and the other examples are also a useful reference. Thanks for sharing your work with the community."
    Ed Price: "Nice short article. Great topic, and great blend of code, color, and images!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice with a little focus on RegEx with FIM and good help for people wanting to have the portal be just a little more company specific"
    GO: "Thanks for the article, but the images weren't clear enough."
    Scott Eastin
    Installing Oracle MA for FIM R2 on Windows 2012
    GO: "EX-CE-LL-EN-T article!"
    AM: "Very nice article with clear step-by-step instructions - thanks for putting this together. "
    Ed Price: "I love the sections with numbered bullets at the end. They're very clear and easy to read!"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - May 2014  
    João Sousa
    Microsoft Azure - Remote Debbuging How To?
    GO: "Clever. Well Explained and written. Thanks! You absolutely deserve the GOLD medal."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic topic and great use of images!"
    Alex Mang
    The Move to the New Azure SQL Database Tiers
    Ed Price: "Great depth and descriptions! Very timely topic! Lots of collaboration on this article from community members!"
    GO: "great article but images are missing"
    Alex Mang
    Separating Insights Data In Visual Studio Online
    Application Insights For Production And Staging Cloud Services
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and clarity!"
    GO: "great article but images are missing"
     Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Mr X
    How to export your Orchestrator Runbooks to Visio and Word
    Ed Price: "A basic tip, but very helpful. Good job!"
    GO: "Thanks for that!"
    SR: "Nice "How To" article explaining the basic steps."
    AH: "This article is to the point takes a simple tasks and describes it accurately.
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Dan Christian
    Build a loop workflow using SharePoint 2010
    Jinchun Chen: "Excellent article. Personally speaking, the biggest challenge is SharePoint Designer workflow is “while-loop”. Many customers had the same scene as this article set. I am sure they are like this article.
    Benoît Jester: "An AWESOME, huge, detailed article by Dan. Did I mention the videos? Thanks Dan!"
    GO: "Great article Dan! Thanks!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Detailed explanation which I admire, but wouldn't be using a vs workflow be more logical in this case?"
    Geetanjali Arora
    Export User Profile Properties using CSOM
    Benoît Jester: "Great article on this new SharePoint 2013 development capability. I appreciate the code explanations."
    GO: "This is a great article. Love the way how you explain it."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I will use this piece of code in the future!"
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice. How about customized properties? It would be nice more, if a CSOM script version can be attached. "
    Inderjeet Singh
    Unable
    to restore site collection issue
    GO: "Simple. Good Written. Clear and Clever. Great article."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Quite handy reference for this particular problem"
    Benoît Jester: "Good explanation on the site collection deletion process."
     Small Basic Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Philip Conrod
    Programming Home Projects with Microsoft Small Basic: Chapter
    1: Writing Programs Using Small Basic
    RZ: "Very systematic introduction."
    Ed Price: "Good overview article that covers all the basics!"
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Nice introduction into the history of Basic. Needs to be updated to reflect current support for Windows version (Windows NT? LOL )"
    Philip Conrod
    Programming Home Projects with Microsoft Small Basic: Chapter 6: Flash
    Card Math Quiz Project
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "This article (or book chapter) is excellent material to learn how to envision, design and build your program. The actual example program is also very usable."
    Ed Price: "I love how this tutorial keeps building on itself as it goes!"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Variable
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the concept of variables!"
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Clear explanation and not frills"
    Ed Price: "Great article with fantastic formatting!"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Durval Ramos
    SSIS - Event Handling with "OnError" ou "OnTaskFailed"
    Ed Price: "The images are very helpful! Could use a grammar pass. Great descriptions!"
    GO: "This article has everything. A conclusion, reference, see also, other languages section. everybody should write actually like this."
    NN: "An interesting topic and article but unfortunately a bit hard to understand due to grammar problems"
    PT: "This is a good article on a useful topic. Please have your article reviewed and edited for proper language."
    S Kamath
    Expansion of Time dimension in Analysis Service
    PT: "Your article is concise and to the point, and contains useful information. It would be good to conclude with a short summary and perhaps compare this technique to others, discussing best practices."
    Ed Price: "Good details on Time Dimension. The images help us understand as we go."
    GO: "I like this one, but something is missing. Do not know what, but I had a blast reading the other two's. Does not mean that this one is bad, but there is something missing, maybe my knowledge..."
    NN: "Good article, but seems to be missing conclusion. It will also benefit from adding See Also section"
    Sherry Li
    SSAS – Ignore unrelated dimension or not
    NN: "Good and interesting article based on the blog"
    GO: "Wonderful article!"
    PT: "This is an important topic and contains helpful information but this is a simple topic that can be explained in fewer words. I found this article to be overly detailed and hard to read. I suggest having it reviewed and edited for
    proper language."
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions. Could be shorter. Good use of images!"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Shanky
    Curious Case Of Logging In Online and Offline Index Rebuild In Full Recovery
    Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Good article. Thank you!"
    GO: "One of the best Wiki Articles ever! Thanks buddy!"
    DRC: "-- This is a great article which provides in-depth information on internals of Online & Offline rebuild index and Transaction logging. -- The following statement need to be re-written for more clarity. “The less logging can be
    attributed to the fact that no information about page allocation is logged information about de-allocation is logged please see below figure 13. Also if you compare amount of record returned in this case we had output containing just 64 rows while offline
    index rebuild had ____ rows.” -- Overall, a great article, thoroughly enjoyed reading it."
    NN: "Very interesting article, another great contribution by Shanky"
    Ed Price: "Thorough descriptions and great solution! Good article!"
    Uwe Ricken
    SQL Server: Be aware of the correct data type for predicates in queries
    Ed Price: "Incredibly well formatted! Great breakdown of sections!"
    GO: "Whoo, this is a wonderful article!"
    DRC: "-- This article explains the Query execution behaviour when the Query is not optimally written which could cause increased execution time. Great article. -- This topic is clearly explained and documented using a simple example and
    sample output which is easy is understand. -- Simple, very well written and great article to read. "
    NN: "Very good, easy to understand article and important information to know to all SQL Server developers"
     System Center Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Mr X
    Central Management of DSRM password on Domain Controllers using Orchestrator
    Ed Price: "The images really carry you through this article. Great execution!"
    GO: "Great article. I like your article Mr X! Thanks for your passion!"
    Kevin Holman: "Nice to see real world examples of Orchestrator in action solving problems that all customers have. This was very simple, but provides an excellent solution."
    W P Chomak
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Customizing E-Mail Notifications
    AB: "Easy reading info that can help many"
    Ed Price: "Short and sweet. An incredibly valuable topic and needed addition to the Wiki!"
    GO: "Clever and well written. Thanks"
    Christoffer S
    System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Install applications in a task sequence based on AD-Groups
    Ed Price: "Good mix of code, images, and information. Could use more in-depth descriptions. Great article!"
    GO: "Clear and simple! Thank you!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Naomi N
    T-SQL: Random Equal Distribution
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice."
    JS: "The crucial thing about such a procedure is to check the data before the randomization and afterwards. You might encounter situations where "John Smith" and "John Meyers" might have exchanged their First names
    which is technically correct, but logically and obviously wrong. So make sure that there is one additional check afterwards that makes sure that eventual privicy concerns will not survive the random process. Normally this would not happen, but I have already
    checked this is one of my older blog entries, where we exactly had that problem obfuscating data to make that operational and live data will not be recognized afterwards. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jenss/archive/2009/04/08/when-is-random-random-enough.aspx In
    addition to this some attributes are sticky to each other like gender and First Name. You also have to make sure that your distribution might change statistically in relation to other attributes."
    Richard Mueller: "Very instructive. Perhaps the See Also section should have more links."
    Ed Price: "Great formatting and topic! Could benefit from more descriptions. Great article!"
    GO: "Naomi, your article is nice. Simple to understand the 'problem' and execute the 'solution""
    Manoj Pandey: "Nice article with a different way to resolve a given problem. I think this can also be done by using NTILE() function. I've added the code in comments section."
    Rogge H
    Extending SYS.Geometry to Utilize Temporal Data
    GO: "Great article, I enjoyed reading it. Thank you"
    Manoj Pandey: "I like the idea, but it took me some more time to understand the overall logic as I'm new to Geo datatypes, Thanks."
    JS: "For me not using this sort of things regularly, I don't see the problem and the benefit. I have no doubt that this is a brilliant explanations how to cope with a problem, but for me this is missing yet the red line. More pictures
    would be helpful describing the problem and outlining the results produced."
    Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation, and perhaps an example. There should be links to relevant references."
    Ed Price: "Good job on the opening descriptions! Could benefit from breaking up and explaining the code more. Images and references would be helpful. Good article!"
    Hasham Niaz
    DataCleanUp() Function Implementation in MS SQL Server
    Jinchun Chen: "Good."
    JS: "-Does actually not work for Case senstive areas where I want to remoce certain Upper/lower case characters. This might be not interesting for some people, but is extremely important and relevant to other people. The limitation is
    that I can´t pass multiple values to be removed from the string, right ? Could this be implemented as well as many people wash out their data from unused / unimportant control characters. "I have tested it on a table which has got more than 11 Million
    rows and it executed fine returning the correct results. Since this is a scalar function you will notice decrease in performance." Once you want to maintain the old data and keep the new cleaned up one seperately, you could suggest something like persisting
    the data in a computed column which could be indexed and then help improving the performance. This would not be the case for any adhoc queries though."
    Richard Mueller: "Very clever and also very useful. There should be links to references, for example to explain the PATINDEX function."
    Ed Price: "Great job on this article! Very clear and well executed! See JS's comments for some thoughts about what's possible. Great article!"
    Manoj Pandey: "A good utility Function that I can use and tweak for my future needs, Thanks."
    Jaliya Udagedara
    Calling WCF Service from a Stored Procedure in Microsoft SQL Server 2012
    GO: "Gold Winner. For sure!"
    Ed Price: "Amazing article! The depth, images, and code formatting make this fantastic!"
    NN: "Great article, thorough explanations, great interaction in the comments - very useful tutorial"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice work."
    João Sousa
    ASP.NET MVC 5 - Bootstrap 3.0 in 3 Steps
    GO: "Thanks for that great article"
    Ed Price: "Great formatting! Good use of images!"
    NN: "Nice introduction to Bootstrap in ASP.MVC project"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Just a little more technical explanation would be nice"
    Critical_stop
    Using 64-bit shortcuts from a 32-bit application
    NN: "Good and short article, right to the point"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Mixing and matching 32/64 bit always seems to give people a hassle. This will help those having issues."
    GO: "good one!"
    Ed Price: "Good article. Short and sweet."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - May 2014  
    XAML guy
    TechNet Guru Competition: Judge System Explanation
    GO: "No one could do it beter than you Pete! Thanks!"
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of the judging system. Perhaps could use a See Also section."
    Ed Price: "Good quote from Shanky in the comments, "Awesome....Kudos to your for your beautiful work" -- Great job!"
    NN: "Very good article. It may also benefit from See Also section"
    Payman Biukaghazadeh
    TechNet Wiki Persian Council
    GO: "Go Persion GOOO!"
    Richard Mueller: "The Persian Council is an excellent idea. The link to "How to Write an Article" should be in a See Also section, along with other articles."
    NN: "Great article, missing a link to other portals and councils pages"
    Ed Price: "Thank you to Payman and the Persian community for jumping in! The Wiki is warm!"
    Durval Ramos
    Wiki: Best Practices for building TechNet Wiki Portals
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job from Durval on helping us standardize the portals!"
    NN: "Good article, but unfortunately a bit hard to read and understand due to bad grammar. "
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent and important topic. Grammar still needs work. I like the links and See Also."
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Sara Silva
    Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM)
    Ed Price: "Great article! Great code formatting and good use of code comments for descriptions of what your code's doing! Could be improved by breaking out the code with more descriptions in the article (in addition to
    the code comments). Very in-depth article! "
    Peter Laker: "An excellent article, pulling together all the bits you need to make this happen"
    SubramanyamRaju.B
    WindowsPhone Facebook Integration:How to post message/image to FaceBook Fan
    Page(C#-XAML)
    Ed Price: "Good topic! Code blocks would help with the formatting. Good job on this article!"
    Peter Laker: "Love this, very useful to many I'm sure, thanks!"
    Saad Mahmood
    Creating a custom control in Expression Blend with Custom Properties (WindowsPhone
    & Store)
    Ed Price: "This has a good mix of descriptions and clarity! The images help a lot!"
    Peter Laker: "A nice introduction to our beloved Blend. Great work!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF/MVVM: Merging Cells In a ListView
    KJ: "Ah the collectionViewSource -- never used it myself but this looks like a good reference article if I ever needed to..."
    GO: "Thank you!"
    Ed Price: "Great formatting and good descriptions. Short and sweet! Another fantastic entry from Magnus!"
    Peter Laker: "Thank you again Magnus"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Mr X
    How to implement User
    Activity Recording for AD-Integrated Critical Servers by combining the use of Group Policy, Powershell and Orchestrator
    Philippe Levesque: "Really good information and detailed step."
    JH: "brilliant, love how it combines different technologies to achieve a solution, clearly written and well illustrated."
    JM: "Another excellent article, thanks again for your many great contributions"
    Richard Mueller: "Very creative solution. Great to have such detailed steps and images."
    GO: "I like the conclusion. Thanks"
    Mr X
    How Domain Controllers are located in Windows
    GO: "Super article Mr X! Merci!"
    JM: "Yet again, excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Good documentation. An explanation of how the priorities and weights are determined would help. A See Also section would also help."
    Philippe Levesque: "Good "In deep" information. Good to know to help diagnose computer problem in AD's site."
    JH: "another good article, great diagrams. Some repetition but it does help clarify a complex issue. "
    Mahdi Tehrani
    Detailed Concepts:Secure Channel Explained
    JH: "great article. This fills an important gap in this content space. Editing is a little rough, but diagrams and explanations are clear."
    JM: "This is a very good article, however you need to provide more detail in the section on how to fix a broken Channel."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic. Grammar needs work. Good images. Could use a See Also section."
    Philippe Levesque: "Really good explanation of the secure's channel, I like the debugging step included ! "
    GO: "Thanks for this, not everybody know about secure channel."
    As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
    Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
    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 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
    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 the one and only
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!
    If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
    Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.

    Congrats to Peter, Boatseller, and Steef-Jan!
     BizTalk Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Peter Lindgren
    BizTalk 2010: Call SSO from Orchestration
    TGN: "I bet a few people will love you for this, I often see this question at the forums, and you answered it well. Good work!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Great topic and great explanation. It also makes SSO seem less scary :)"
    Sandro Pereira: "Very useful sample, well explained with all the necessary code "
    boatseller
    BizTalk: Using an Orchestration Sync or Async
    Sandro Pereira: "Good sample provide by boatseller and well explained."
    TGN: "Hey, great work man! This is a well done article and I love it!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Exposing data through BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections
    Sandro Pereira: "Nice article with a good overview about BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections and how you can configure them."
    TGN: "Good article, well explained and good pictures. Again Steef-Jan, you know what you're doing!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Nice set-up overview. "
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    Using the ESB Toolkit and the Sentinet Resolver to dynamically resolve Web Service
    Endpoints by
    Tomasso Groenendijk
    Mandi Ohlinger: "It looks like Sentinet fills an ESB gap. Very nice!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Again I always like Tomasso article, well written with lot of pictures and details, what more can we ask?"
    TGN: "Very valuable, mixing programs to get the most out of your product. Very good Tomasso!"
    Automating BizTalk BTDF Generated MSI Deployments in Multi Server Environment by
    Ravindar Thati
    TGN: "Nice, and a valuable submission for the BizTalk community! We can never get enough of BDF articles"
    Sandro Pereira: "Another additional tool that can be that can help simplify the deployment process, good work"
    Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
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    Create a wiki article about it!

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