Correcting typos

Where is the forward delete key? I just want to correct as I am typing, so I just want the opposite of the back-space key

There is no forward Delete key.

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    Revision: 24049
    Revision: 24049
    Author:   [email protected]
    Date:     2013-02-15 05:00:22 -0800 (Fri, 15 Feb 2013)
    Log Message:
    Correcting typo
    Modified Paths:
        blazeds/branches/4.6_Apache/modules/core/src/flex/messaging/services/messaging/selector/J MSSelector.java

    Your problem sounds similar to this one, except that they're using software raid rather than just pure LVM. If you're using an initrd, you may not have the appropriate modules installed. If you're not using an initrd, then the kernel probably needs LVM support compiled in (not as a module) and could be solved by fixing that. I have never used the ck-patchset, but this should give you an additional data point.
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  • Auto-correct spelling while texting

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  • [SOLVED] Unable to boot after CLI shutdown

    Fresh install Archlinux (3.8.4-1-ARCH) + KDE
    From KDE console, I did a shutdown with  the following command
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    [ OK ] Stopped K Display Manager.
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    /dev/sda2 --> swap
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    :: running hook [udev]
    :: Triggering uevents...
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    [rootfs /] #
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    Last edited by cortezthekiller (2013-09-17 21:58:10)

    jasonwryan wrote:
    Should it matter? Not really. There is this:
    man shutdown wrote:NOTES
    This is a legacy command available for compatibility only.
    Yes:
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    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/halt
    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/init
    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/poweroff
    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/reboot
    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/runlevel
    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/shutdown
    systemd-sysvcompat /usr/bin/telinit
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  • Installation problem - JDK 6 on Ubuntu 9.04

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  • Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 howto

    h1. Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 howto
    Author: Dude
    Version: D
    Last modified: 14-Jan-2012
    You are welcome to add comments, but please do not discuss your installation issues in this thread.  If you have a question about the instructions, please add a simple note to the link of your own thread. The instructions are the result of my own research and development. If you would like to use any of the information for your own blog or website, please include a link to this reference to include future changes.
    Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 howto
    h2. Purpose
    This document outlines instructions how to install Oracle XE under Ubuntu 11.10.
    Ubuntu or Debian based Linux is not on the list of supported operation systems according to the Oracle documentation at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18802/toc.htm. You may want to consider virtualization software like Oracle Virtualbox and install Oracle Enterprise Linux as a free and professional alternative to installing XE under Ubuntu. You can also download pre-build virtual machines that include Oracle XE. You can browse http://otn.oracle.com/community/developer-vm for more information.
    h2. Topics
    h4. 1) Install Linux Ubuntu
    h4. 2) Remote Terminal
    h4. 3) Install Additional Software
    h4. 4) Managing Swap Space
    h4. 5) Modify Kernel Parameters
    h4. 6) Oracle Home Directory
    ...a) Resize the Root Partition
    ...b) Setup External Storage
    h4. 7) ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET
    h4. 8) Installing Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition
    h4. 9) Post-Installation
    h4. 10) Tips and Troubleshooting
    ...a) Port 1521 appears to be in use by another application
    ...b) cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/listener': No such file or directory
    ...c) ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET
    ...d) Apex ADMIN password
    ...e) SYS and SYSTEM password
    ...f) Uninstall Oracle 11g XE
    ...g) Reconfigure Oracle 11g XE
    ...h) Gnome Classic desktop
    ...i) Unix vi cursor keys
    ...j) Backup Database
    h4. 11) History
    h4. 12) References
    h2. 1) Install Linux Ubuntu
    The following assumes you have installed Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop Edition for AMD 64-bit, or upgraded from a previous version. Keep in mind that Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition is only available for 64-bit architecture. It is not necessarily a requirement, but I would not bother to install Oracle 11gR2 XE on a system with less than 2 GB of RAM installed. You can download Ubuntu for free at: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu and install it using the default settings provided.
    You can apply the latest OS patch-sets by clicking the power button icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen and selecting "Updates available..."
    h2. 2) Remote Terminal
    You will need command line access to perform the installation tasks. Select the top "Dash Home" button of the Unity toolbar and enter the word "terminal", or use CTRL-ALT-t. If you prefer to open a remote terminal session use SSH. Ubuntu does not come with a secure shell login by default. To install it, use the following command:
    sudo apt-get install openssh-serverYou cannot login as root unless you set a root password using the "sudo passwd root" command. However, you can get root user access using the "sudo" command, which requires only to re-enter the password of your personal account. Access to "sudo" is controlled by the /etc/sudoers file.
    The best way to establish a remote command line session as root is to login with your personal account, e.g.: ssh [email protected], and then type "sudo su -" to become root, or use "sudo <command>" to execute individual commands. If your account does not have "sudo" access you can login as root using "su - root", but will need to know the root password.
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    SwapTotal:       2095100 kB
    SwapFree:        2095100 kBYou can increase available swap space by using a swap file as long as disk space permits. The advantage of a swap file versus a swap partition is flexible space management because you can add or delete swap space on demand as necessary. The following will create and enable an additional 1 GB swap file at system startup, located in the /home directory:
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    exit
    swapon -s
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    /dev/sda5                               partition     2095100     0     -1
    /home/swapfile                          file          1048572     0     -2Swap space is not a substitute for installed RAM. Swap space is a safeguard that allows the system to move idle processes to disk before the OOM killer will begin to terminate processes in order to free up enough real memory to keep the system operational. The general rule for sizing the swap space depends on the size of installed RAM. If your system has less then 4 GB of RAM the swap space should usually be at least twice this size. If you have more than 8 GB of RAM installed you may consider to use an equal size as swap space. The more RAM you have installed, the less likely you are going to run into memory starvation, and the less likely you are going to need swap space, unless you have a bad process.
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    fs.file-max=6815744
    net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=9000 65500
    kernel.sem=250 32000 100 128
    # kernel.shmmax=429496729
    kernel.shmmax=107374183
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    sudo sysctl -q net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
    UUID=d1db753e-b5dd-4a4c-a61e-259c69867b58
    {code}
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    {code}
    reboot
    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    If you prefer to setup an external drive to install Oracle XE, beware that it can be a fatal mistake to make an entry in /etc/fstab to automount your external storage device.  An unavailable device in /etc/fstab will prevent a system startup and prompt for appropriate actions at the console.
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
    Model: USB 2.0 Flash Disk (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sdb: 2064MB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
    Partition Table: gpt
    Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
    1      20.5kB  1929MB  1929MB  hfs+         mystick
    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
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    {code}
    Login as root:
    {code}
    sudo su -
    {code}
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    {code}
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    #! /bin/sh
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    VOL_UUID=alphanumeric
    VOL_LABEL=oraclexe
    VOL_SYMLINK=/u01
    mount=/usr/bin/pmount
    uuid2dev() {
       VOL_DEVICE="\`blkid | grep \$VOL_UUID | awk '{print \$1}'\`"
       VOL_DEVICE="\`echo \$VOL_DEVICE | tr -d ':'\`"
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      start)
        echo "Starting script /etc/init.d/oracle-mount"
        uuid2dev
        \$mount \$VOL_DEVICE \$VOL_LABEL
        if [ -d /media/\$VOL_LABEL ]; then
           echo "Mount \$VOL_DEVICE success"
           ln -sf /media/\$VOL_LABEL \$VOL_SYMLINK
        else
           echo "Error mouting \$VOL_DEVICE"
        fi
      stop)
        echo "Stopping script /etc/init.d/oracle-mount"
        uuid2dev
        /bin/umount \$VOL_DEVICE 2>/dev/null
        if [ "\`/usr/bin/pmount | /bin/grep \$VOL_DEVICE\`" ]; then
           echo "Error unmounting \$VOL_DEVICE"
        else
           rm -f \$VOL_SYMLINK
        fi
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/oracle-u01 {start|stop}"
        exit 1
    esac
    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:          oracle-mount
    # Required-Start:    \$remote_fs \$syslog
    # Required-Stop:     \$remote_fs \$syslog
    # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
    # Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
    # Description:       Mount hotplug-usb drive and create symlink
    ### END INIT INFO
    EOF
    {code}
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    {code}
    chmod 755 /etc/init.d/oracle-mount
    update-rc.d oracle-mount defaults 01 99
    {code}
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    {code}
    uuid=`blkid | grep oraclexe | awk '{print $3}'`
    echo $uuid
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    {code}
    The UUID of your device will be a unique number, but should be similar to:
    {code}
    UUID="3f5e9963-b328-49f3-b3e8-a3561ae34106"
    {code}
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    {code}
    exit
    sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-mount stop
    ls /u01
    sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-mount start
    ls /u01
    {code}
    Your output should look like:
    {code}
    Stopping script /etc/init.d/oracle-mount
    /dev/sdb1
    ls: cannot access /u01: No such file or directory
    Starting script /etc/init.d/oracle-mount
    /dev/sdb1
    Mount /dev/sdb1 success
    lost+found
    {code}
    h2. 7) ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET
    Oracle 11gR2 XE under Ubuntu 11.10 will result in "ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not support on this system" either at Oracle database startup or during the initial installation. Ubuntu 11.10 uses a new version of the "systemd" system and session manager and has migrated away from /dev/shm and other common directories in favor of /run.
    There are several ways how to address the problem. You can either enable /dev/shm shared memory, or change the default memory management of Oracle 11g from AMM (Automatic Memory Management) to ASMM (Automatic Shared Memory Management) as it was in used the previous 10g version. Since AMM is one of the new features of 11g, the following will show you how to make to make AMM work.
    Login as root:
    {code}
    sudo su -
    {code}
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    {code}
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    #! /bin/sh
    # /etc/init.d/oracle-shm
    case "\$1" in
      start)
        echo "Starting script /etc/init.d/oracle-shm"
        # Run only once at system startup
        if [ -e /dev/shm/.oracle-shm ]; then
          echo "/dev/shm is already mounted, nothing to do"
        else
          rm -f /dev/shm
          mkdir /dev/shm
          mount -B /run/shm /dev/shm
          touch /dev/shm/.oracle-shm
        fi
      stop)
        echo "Stopping script /etc/init.d/oracle-shm"
        echo "Nothing to do"
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/oracle-shm {start|stop}"
        exit 1
    esac
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    # Provides:          oracle-shm
    # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
    # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
    # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
    # Short-Description: Bind /run/shm to /dev/shm at system startup.
    # Description:       Fix to allow Oracle 11g use AMM.
    ### END INIT INFO
    EOF
    {code}
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    {code}
    chmod 755 /etc/init.d/oracle-shm
    update-rc.d oracle-shm defaults 01 99
    {code}
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    {code}
    reboot
    {code}
    Verify the success:
    {code}
    sudo cat /etc/mtab | grep shm
    {code}
    {code}
    none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
    /run/shm /dev/shm none rw,bind 0 0
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    The verify available shared memory, type the following commands:
    {code}
    sudo df -h /run/shm
    {code}
    h2. 8) Installing Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition
    The final release version of Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition can be downloaded for free at http://otn.oracle.com/database/express-edition/downloads. The software should automatically downloaded into the "Downloads" folder of your home directory.
    Enter the following commands to unpack the installer:
    {code}
    cd ~/Downloads
    unzip oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip
    rm oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip
    {code}
    The Debian Linux based package management of Ubuntu is not compatible with the Red Hat package manager. The Oracle installer needs to be converted using the following commands:
    {code}
    cd ~/Downloads/Disk1
    sudo alien --to-deb --scripts oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
    (This may take a few minutes)
    rm oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
    {code}
    The following needs to be set for compatibility:
    {code}
    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/awk /bin/awk
    sudo mkdir /var/lock/subsys
    {code}
    Ubuntu uses different tools to manage services and system startup scripts. The "chkconfig" tool required by the Oracle installer is not available in Ubuntu. The following will create a file to simulate the "chkconfig" tool.
    Login as root:
    {code}
    sudo su -
    {code}
    Copy & paste the following *directly* into the command prompt to create a file:
    {code}
    cat > /sbin/chkconfig <<-EOF
    #!/bin/bash
    # Oracle 11gR2 XE installer chkconfig hack for Debian based Linux (by dude)
    # Only run once.
    echo "Simulating /sbin/chkconfig..."
    if [[ ! \`tail -n1 /etc/init.d/oracle-xe | grep INIT\` ]]; then
    cat >> /etc/init.d/oracle-xe <<-EOM
    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:                  OracleXE
    # Required-Start:        \\\$remote_fs \\\$syslog
    # Required-Stop:        \\\$remote_fs \\\$syslog
    # Default-Start:            2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop:            0 1 6
    # Short-Description:   Oracle 11g Express Edition
    ### END INIT INFO
    EOM
    fi
    update-rc.d oracle-xe defaults 80 01
    EOF
    {code}
    Exit root:
    {code}
    exit
    {code}
    Set execute privileges:
    {code}
    sudo chmod 755 /sbin/chkconfig
    {code}
    Install Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition entering the following commands:
    {code}
    cd ~/Downloads/Disk1
    sudo dpkg --install ./oracle-xe_11.2.0-2_amd64.deb
    (This may take a couple of minutes)
    {code}
    Run the configuration script to create (clone) the database and follow the screen. Accept the default answers, including "y" to startup the database automatically, or modify as required.
    {code}
    sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
    (This can take a few minutes - the installation completed successfully.)
    {code}
    To verify success, the procedure should end showing:
    {code}
    Starting Oracle Net Listener...Done
    Configuring database...Done
    Starting Oracle Database 11g Express Edition instance...Done
    Installation completed successfully.
    {code}
    Set a password for the Oracle account:
    {code}
    sudo passwd oracle
    {code}
    h2. 9) Post-Installation
    In order to use sqlplus and other tools, the Oracle account requires specific environment variables. The following will set these variables automatically at every Oracle login:
    Login as the Oracle user:
    {code}
    su - oracle
    {code}
    Copy the default account skeleton files and add the Oracle env script to .profile:
    {code}
    cp /etc/skel/.bash_logout ./
    cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ./
    cp /etc/skel/.profile ./
    echo "" >>./.profile
    echo '. /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/oracle_env.sh' >>./.profile
    {code}
    By default, the Oracle Database XE graphical user interface is only available at the local server, but not remotely. The following will enable remote logins:
    Login as the Oracle user:
    {code}
    su - oracle
    {code}
    Login as SYSDBA and execute the following:
    {code}
    sqlplus / as sysdba
    SQL> EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETLISTENERLOCALACCESS(FALSE);
    exit
    {code}
    See http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17781_01/admin.112/e18585/toc.htm for more information.
    h3. a) Unity desktop configurations
    The Oracle XE menu under the previous Gnome Classic desktop shows several useful scripts to backup the database, start and stop the database, etc. Under the Unity based desktop this menu is not available. You can either switch to the Gnome Classic desktop as outlined in chapter 2, or perform the following steps to modify and copy the scripts as outlined below. The start and stop database scripts will also be modified to perform a progress feedback.
    Login as user root:
    {code}
    sudo su -
    {code}
    Convert desktop files:
    {code}
    cd /usr/share/applications
    sed -i 's/Categories.*/Categories=Database;Office;Development;/g' oraclexe*
    sed -i 's/MultipleArgs/X-MultipleArgs/g' oraclexe*
    sed -i 's/MimeType.*/MimeType=application\/x-database/g' oraclexe*
    sed -i 's/.png//g' oraclexe*
    sed -i 's/Terminal=false/Terminal=true/g' oraclexe-startdb.desktop
    sed -i 's/Terminal=false/Terminal=true/g' oraclexe-stopdb.desktop
    {code}
    Exit root:
    {code}
    exit
    {code}
    Login as user Oracle:
    {code}
    su - oracle
    {code}
    Modify database start and stop scripts:
    {code}
    cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/config/scripts
    cp startdb.sh start.sh_orig
    cp stopdb.sh stopdb.sh_orig
    sed -i 's/>.*//g' startdb.sh
    sed -i 's/>.*//g' stopdb.sh
    {code}
    You will need SYSDBA privileges and set Oracle environment variables in order to use your regular user account.
    Login to your regular user account:
    {code}
    su - dude
    {code}
    Enter the folowing command:
    {code}
    sudo usermod -a -G dba dude
    {code}
    Then update your profile to automatically set the necessary Oracle environment variables:
    {code}
    echo "" >>./.profile
    echo '. /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/oracle_env.sh' >>./.profile
    {code}
    Update your Desktop folder to contain useful Oracle XE scripts:
    {code}
    cp /usr/share/applications/oraclexe* ~/Desktop
    chmod 750 ~/Desktop/oraclexe*
    {code}
    To verify success re-login and try "sqlplus":
    {code}
    su - oracle
    sqlplus / as sysdba
    {code}
    h2. 10) Tips and Troubleshooting
    h3. 10. a) Port 1521 appears to be in use by another application
    Error: Port 1521 appears to be in use by another application. Specify a different port.This error happens after a previously unsuccessful configuration attempt using /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure script. The script was able to start the Listener process, but most likely failed to continue  to clone the database, e.g. ORA-00845. The following should correct the problem:
    Determine the oracle listener process that is already running:
    {code}
    $ ps -ef | grep oracle
    {code}
    Your output should be similar to:
    {code}
    oracle   19789     1  0 19:46 ?        00:00:00 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/tnslsnr
    {code}
    Then kill the process, using the appropriate process id, for instance:
    {code}
    $ sudo kill -9 19789
    {code}
    h3. 10.b) cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/listener': No such file or directory
    Starting Oracle Net Listener...touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/listener': No such file or directoryThis error occurs when you run /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure, but failed the preinstallation step to create the /var//lock/subsys directory as outlined in chapter 8.
    h3. 10.c) ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET
    ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system See chapter 7 to enable /dev/shm and verify free space available in /run/shm
    h3. 10.d) Apex ADMIN password
    According to the Oracle documentation, the password for the INTERNAL and ADMIN Oracle Application Express user accounts is initially the same as the SYS and SYSTEM administrative user accounts. Well, I tried several times without success. To reset the Apex Admin password:
    Login as user oracle:
    {code}
    su - oracle
    {code}
    Login as SYSDBA and type the following:
    {code}
    sqlplus / as sysdba
    {code}
    At the SQL prompt, type the following to be prompted to change the password:
    {code}
    SQL> @?/apex/apxxepwd.sql
    exit
    {code}
    When done, open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex
    Workspace: Internal
    Username: ADMIN
    Password: password you set with apxxepwd.sql
    I will prompt you to reset the password:
    old password: password you set with apxxepwd.sql
    new password: final_password
    You can also login as the Apex Admin using http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex/apex_admin
    h3. 10.e) SYS and SYSTEM password
    Use the following commands to reset the SYS and SYSTEM passwords if necessary:
    Login as the Oracle user:
    {code}
    su - oracle
    {code}
    Login as SYSDBA and type the following at the SQL prompt:
    {code}
    sqlplus / as sysdba
    SQL> alter user sys identified by "password" account unlock;
    SQL> alter user system identified by "password" account unlock;
    SQL> exit
    {code}
    h3. 10.f) Uninstall Oracle 11g XE
    The following will completely uninstall and remove Oracle 11g XE:
    Open a terminal seesion and login as user root:
    {code}
    sudo su -
    {code}
    Enter the following:
    {code}
    /etc/init.d/oracle-xe stop
    dpkg --purge oracle-xe
    rm -r /u01/app
    rm /etc/default/oracle-xe
    update-rc.d -f oracle-xe remove
    update-rc.d -f oracle-mount remove
    update-rc.d -f oracle-shm remove
    {code}
    h3. 10.g) Reconfigure Oracle 11g XE
    Type the following commands in a terminal window:
    {code}
    sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe stop
    sudo rm /etc/default/oracle-xe
    sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
    {code}
    h3. 10.h) Gnome Classic desktop
    Ubuntu 11 moved from the Gnome Classic desktop to Unity and removed the "Ubuntu Classic" login option. Unity was designed to make more efficient use of space given a limited screen size and touch screens. If you prefer to use the Gnome Classic desktop, enter the following into a terminal window:
    {code}
    sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
    {code}
    To log into the Gnome Classic desktop, select the "Gearwheel" at the login screen and select "Gnome Classic".
    h3. 10.i) Unix vi cursor keys
    The instructions in this tutorial do not require the use of any text editor. However, if you would like use the backspace and cursor keys in the "vi-editor", the following needs to be installed:
    {code}
    sudo apt-get install vim
    {code}
    h3. 10.j) Backup Database
    In order to perform an online database backup using the supplied "Backup Database" script, the database needs to run in Archive-Log mode. This can be setup using the following commands:
    Login as the Oracle user:
    {code}
    su - oracle
    {code}
    Login as SYSDBA and type the following:
    {code}
    sqlplus / as sysdba
    SQL> shutdown immediate
    SQL> startup mount
    SQL> alter database archivelog;
    SQL> alter database open;
    SQL> exit
    {code}
    h2. 11) History
    Version: A, 24-Oct-2011
    - first release
    Version: B, 25-Oct-2011
    - reduced instructions.
    - corrected errors in 6a and 8.
    - new strategy addressing ORA-00845 error.
    - rework of chapter 10.
    Version: C, 30-Nov-2011
    - corrected typo in 6a
    - new procedures in 9a.
    - added progress feedback to database scripts.
    Version D, 14-Jan-2012
    - corrected presentation errors.
    - reorganized instructions.
    h3. 12) References
    http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18802/toc.htm
    http://askubuntu.com/questions/57297/why-has-var-run-been-migrated-to-run
    http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
    https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2300750&tstart=0
    Kind regards and best of luck!
    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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

    Excellent Blog. Thank You
    Small clarification on Step **6) Oracle Home Directory, ...a) Resize the Root Partition**
    Ubuntu 11.10 has Gparted available as a Ubuntu software download, DONT use that while trying the above step, instead download the ISO file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/ gparted-live-0.12.0-5.iso (124.6 MB)
    Burn that ISO file on a Blank DVD, reboot the Ubuntu , during startup select Boot from DVD Option if not already selected. this will take to Boot Menu Options of Gparted Live then select the first menu option, and this allows to do further action such as Re-sizing .
    and once you have chosen and executed step a) . do NOT run step b) also that is "Setup External Storage"
    I hope this minor clarification can avoid some confusion
    Regards
    Madhusudhan Rao
    Edited by: MadhusudhanRao on Mar 24, 2012 11:30 PM

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SharePoint 2010! 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!"
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    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
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    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
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    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
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    Andy ONeill
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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!"
     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
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    Congrats to Muguresa, Melick, and Michaelle!
     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." 
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider Hosted
    and SharePoint Hosted) – Search (Part2) by
    Melick
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good stuff - interesting approach for a JS API for JSOM"
    Ed Price: "Good breakdown of methods. Could benefit from more context and a See Also section at the end."
    SharePoint Online: How to change primary administrator for all site collections
    using Powershell by
    Arleta Wanat
    Margriet Bruggeman: "complete discussion of this problem"
    Ed Price: "An incredibly valuable topic!" 
    SharePoint 2013 : Displaying sum for calculated column in a list view using JSLink by
    Jaydeep Mungalpara
    Jinchun Chen: "Helpful"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "This is very useful, I've seen people ask for a solution like this"
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and use of images. Great to have the code download!" 
    THE PROVIDED APP DIFFERS FROM ANOTHER APP WITH THE SAME VERSION
    AND PRODUCT ID in SharePoint 2013 App Development by
    Melick
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Excellent explanation of the thought process behind solving this problem"
    Ed Price: "Great topic and use of images! Could benefit from more contextual explanation and a See Also section."
    SharePoint Hosted Apps - Create Enterprise WIKI page using REST API by
    Kashif Pervaiz Butt
    Ed Price: "Good intro, reference, and code formatting! Could benefit breaking out the code more and explaining each piece. Good to have the Reference link!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Great if you're looking for this exact code, but doesn't do much to explain what is going on."
    SharePoint 2013: Deleting Orphaned SharePoint Databases by
    Matthew Yarlett
    Jinchun Chen: "It is useful in mose cases."
    Ed Price: "Great job on the code formatting and explaining each part! "
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Handy, but I'm missing some insights why this has happened" 
    SharePoint 2010 : Batch Updates on List Items using SharePoint Designer Workflow by
    Murugesa Pandian
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The SharePoint Workflow is one of the most sought by the community resources." 
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I guess I expected some more depth, the intro is really nice and then the solution is presented and over before you know it." 
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and great use of images! Could benefit from Headers and a TOC. " 
    Configure a SharePoint server in non domain(Workgroup) environment by
    Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Didn't know that that was even possible, so cool! Although I feel this has limited usefulness." 
    Ed Price: "Good topic, but it could benefit from code formatting, Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. The images help with clarity!"
    Access SQL server database of any version of SharePoint Standalone farm by
    Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
    Ed Price: "Good use of images, with clear steps and good to have the Reference. Would benefit from a Reference section."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I feel there is a limited audience for this, and the complexity if the article is aslo limited. I do like the angle about sharepoint in a non-AD environment though, it's just not for me" 
    ADFS signout issue for SharePoint site in IE browser due to FedAuth Cookie by
    Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Very useful info, clear focus and article gets right to the point." 
    Ed Price: "Good write up. It's important to write articles in a Wiki perspective rather than a blog tone. Good description of the problem! Could benefit from code formatting." 
    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 VB! 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!

    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!

  • Database open but no processes?   Ghost instance?

    10.2.0.3.0 RH 5
    customer had been doing some SAN work and caused a database problem, listener wouldnt start. Got called to look at it.
    ok, lsnrctl status shows its up, I logged into database as sysdba query v$instance, all open and good.
    SQL> select * from v$instance;
    INSTANCE_NUMBER INSTANCE_NAME
    HOST_NAME
    VERSION           STARTUP_T STATUS       PAR    THREAD# ARCHIVE LOG_SWITCH_WAIT
    LOGINS     SHU DATABASE_STATUS   INSTANCE_ROLE      ACTIVE_ST BLO
                  1 DWH01
    DWHBOX
    10.2.0.3.0        08-MAY-12 OPEN         NO           1 STOPPED
    ALLOWED    NO  ACTIVE            PRIMARY_INSTANCE   NORMAL    NO
    SQL>ok, whats the problem? user cant login with a TNS 12530 error, thats strange lets look at the alert log, (this is a test datawarehouse instance with no arc log mode) ... nothing in it since last night some time.
    ok, lets see what oracle processes are running. whats that? No oracle processes!
    >
    [root@DWHBOX ~]# ps -ef | grep pmon
    [root@DWHBOX ~]#
    >
    no, that cant be right, I just logged on to the database, lets have a look at all oracle processes
    >
    ps -ef | grep ora
    root 5067 4933 0 14:45 pts/4 00:00:00 su - oracle
    oracle 5068 5067 0 14:45 pts/4 00:00:00 -bash
    oracle 5090 5068 0 14:46 pts/4 00:00:00 sqlplus as sysdba
    oracle 5091 5090 0 14:46 ? 00:00:00 oracleDWH01 (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))
    root 5113 3065 0 14:46 pts/3 00:00:00 grep ora
    root 15237 3823 0 Apr27 ? 00:00:04 sshd: oracle [priv]
    oracle 15281 15237 0 Apr27 ? 00:00:06 sshd: oracle@pts/0
    oracle 15282 15281 0 Apr27 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
    [root@DWHBOX ~]#
    >
    woooh, hold on, NO oracle processes at all except for the listener. I must have a typo, stop the listener and do an lsof | grep oracle to see what open files there are, if I can query v$instance then at least the controlfile must be open. (sits on /u01)
    >
    [root@DWHBOX ~]# lsof | grep oracle
    [root@DWHBOX ~]#
    >
    nothing! I now officially have a ghost database. /shudder/
    I know, lets go look at the v$process
    >
    oracle@DWHBOX ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
    SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue May 8 14:46:04 2012
    Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
    Connected to:
    Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
    SQL>
    SQL>
    SQL> desc v$process
    Name Null? Type
    ADDR RAW(4)
    PID NUMBER
    SPID VARCHAR2(12)
    USERNAME VARCHAR2(15)
    SERIAL# NUMBER
    TERMINAL VARCHAR2(30)
    PROGRAM VARCHAR2(48)
    TRACEID VARCHAR2(255)
    BACKGROUND VARCHAR2(1)
    LATCHWAIT VARCHAR2(8)
    LATCHSPIN VARCHAR2(8)
    PGA_USED_MEM NUMBER
    PGA_ALLOC_MEM NUMBER
    PGA_FREEABLE_MEM NUMBER
    PGA_MAX_MEM NUMBER
    SQL> select addr, program from v$process;
    ADDR PROGRAM
    7F2B2758 PSEUDO
    7F2B2D10 oracle@DWHBOX (PMON)
    7F2B32C8 oracle@DWHBOX (PSP0)
    7F2B3880 oracle@DWHBOX (MMAN)
    7F2B3E38 oracle@DWHBOX (DBW0)
    7F2B43F0 oracle@DWHBOX (LGWR)
    7F2B49A8 oracle@DWHBOX (CKPT)
    7F2B4F60 oracle@DWHBOX (SMON)
    7F2B5518 oracle@DWHBOX (RECO)
    7F2B5AD0 oracle@DWHBOX (CJQ0)
    7F2B6088 oracle@DWHBOX (MMON)
    ADDR PROGRAM
    7F2B6640 oracle@DWHBOX (MMNL)
    7F2B6BF8 oracle@DWHBOX (D000)
    7F2B71B0 oracle@DWHBOX (S000)
    7F2B7768 oracle@DWHBOX (q000)
    7F2B7D20 oracle@DWHBOX (QMNC)
    7F2B82D8 oracle@DWHBOX (q001)
    7F2B8890 oracle@DWHBOX (J000)
    7F2B8E48 oracle@DWHBOX (TNS V1-V3)
    >
    theres the pmon, lets get the PID of pmon and track that down on the OS
    >
    SQL> select pid, program from v$process;
    select pid, program from v$process
    ERROR at line 1:
    ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
    SQL>
    >
    Ouch, so trying to get the OS PID crashed my session, lets disconnect, sqlplus back in, but now Im on a dead database, so it looks like trying to query the PID killed whatever ghost instance was there
    >
    SQL> exit
    Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
    [oracle@DWHBOX ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
    SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue May 8 14:47:35 2012
    Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
    Connected to an idle instance.
    SQL>
    >
    startup as normal and we're open for business and pmon an all other processes are up.
    Can anyone explain that?
    Edited by: deebee_eh on May 8, 2012 3:31 PM
    Corrected typo: ora 12530 was the original error reported, not 12503.

    nothing in the alert. no traces, dumps, nothing. A switch last night Mon May 7 22:10:05 2012, and the PID kill from that SQL session with error 472 which I know is something external killing the instance. Im not too bothered by this though, Ive never EVER seen an instance be open with out the corresponding OS processes
    Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 71
      Current log# 1 seq# 71 mem# 0: /u01/app/datafiles/DWH01/redo01.log
    Sun May  6 07:25:55 2012
    Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 72
      Current log# 2 seq# 72 mem# 0: /u01/app/datafiles/DWH01/redo02.log
    Mon May  7 17:00:58 2012
    Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 73
      Current log# 3 seq# 73 mem# 0: /u01/app/datafiles/DWH01/redo03.log
    Mon May  7 22:10:05 2012
    Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 74
      Current log# 1 seq# 74 mem# 0: /u01/app/datafiles/DWH01/redo01.log
    Tue May  8 14:47:22 2012
    USER: terminating instance due to error 472
    Instance terminated by USER, pid = 5091
    Tue May  8 14:48:14 2012
    Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
    LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
    LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0

  • 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
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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 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!

  • Mail crashes at startup EVERY time

    Hi,
    I'm in the process of switching from entourage and mail 3 is working fine.
    Mail 2.1.X is not working at all. Every time it starts up, it crashes. In rare cases it'll open for about 10 seconds and then crash.
    Here is what I've done to troubleshoot.
    I've rebuilt mailbox, deleted the account, trashed all accounts, prefs, caches and especially the envelope file (read somewhere that might fix the problem). I've reinstalled mail from the install disk and then installed 10.4.7 and 10.4.11 versions of mail using pacifist. Still the same issue.
    I would like to use some bundles (gpg, letterbox, imap idle) BUT have removed them. I run no input managers.
    Below the crash report but as I read in another post just the crash section. This is driving me crazy since I feel that I'm a fairly good mac user (since os 7) and know my way around...
    I use email all the time (who doesn't) but have had too many headaches with entourage and would really like to switch.
    If this helps, I looked if there was a ghost message and didn't find one. Here the clincher: Mail 3 works with the account as does mail on my ipod touch, Entourage 04 and 08 work reasonably well (as well as you can expect).
    Thank you for reading about my problem, if you have any idea, solution, please post, I'll happily try out whatever we can come up with and try to post if I find anything.
    Thanks,
    Phillyman
    PS: If it would I can post the complete log, just tried to keep it as tidy as I could!
    Date/Time: 2008-09-10 11:57:39.003 +0200
    OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
    Report Version: 4
    Command: Mail
    Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
    Parent: WindowServer [84]
    Version: 2.1 (752)
    Build Version: 22
    Project Name: MailViewer
    Source Version: 7520000
    PID: 743
    Thread: 1
    Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
    Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x6c1d1bb0
    Thread 1 Crashed:
    0 <<00000000>> 0x6c1d1bb0 0 + 1813846960
    1 ...entSemanticMappingFramework 0x97d8432c LSMClassifier::NBestCategories(LSMVector<float> const&, int, LSMCategoryScore*) + 180
    2 ...entSemanticMappingFramework 0x97d846d4 LSMClassifier::NBestCategories(LSMTextCounter const&, int, LSMCategoryScore*) + 128
    3 ...entSemanticMappingFramework 0x97d84770 LSMCompiledMap::GetNBestCategories(__LSMText*, int, LSMCategoryScore*) + 24
    4 ...entSemanticMappingFramework 0x97d847ac LSMMapGetBestCategory + 40
    5 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9abbb60c MFJunkMailLevelForString + 140
    6 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab190ec -[MessageCriterion _evaluateJunkMailCriterion:] + 968
    7 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab16bac -[MessageCriterion doesMessageSatisfyCriterion:] + 368
    8 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab16828 -[MessageRule doesMessageSatisfyCriteria:] + 160
    9 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab16540 +[MessageRouter putRulesThatWantsToHandleMessage:intoArray:colorRulesOnly:] + 444
    10 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab5d86c -[MessageRouter routeMessages:fromStores:] + 1004
    11 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab5d43c -[MessageStore routeMessages:isUserAction:] + 132
    12 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab0744c _unlockIfProcessedResponses + 996
    13 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab06b98 -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine(Internal) _go] + 364
    14 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aaf687c -[LibraryIMAPStore openSynchronouslyUpdatingMetadata:] + 268
    15 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9abda294 -[LibraryIMAPStore _fetchForCheckingNewMail:] + 44
    16 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aaf5030 -[LibraryStore openSynchronouslyUpdatingMetadata:] + 412
    17 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a461f4 objc_msgSendv + 180
    18 com.apple.Foundation 0x92befc0c -[NSInvocation invoke] + 944
    19 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aaeb7a0 -[MonitoredInvocation invoke] + 144
    20 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aaf4e20 -[InvocationQueue _drainQueue] + 416
    21 com.apple.Foundation 0x92bf4118 forkThreadForFunction + 108
    22 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002bd08 pthreadbody + 96
    ----------- further below-------------------
    Thread 1 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
    srr0: 0x000000006c1d1bb0 srr1: 0x000000004000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
    cr: 0x44022448 xer: 0x0000000000000004 lr: 0x00000000925abb6c ctr: 0x000000006c1d1bb1
    r0: 0x00000000000005f0 r1: 0x00000000f01007a0 r2: 0x000000009268b55c r3: 0x0000000000000002
    r4: 0x00000000000005f0 r5: 0x0000000000000090 r6: 0x000000000626af30 r7: 0x0000000000004ae0
    r8: 0x00000000062a4000 r9: 0x0000000000000001 r10: 0x0000000005e01071 r11: 0x00000000a20fb55c
    r12: 0x000000006c1d1bb1 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x00000000d191cfa3
    r16: 0x0000000000004ae0 r17: 0x0000000000000001 r18: 0x0000000000000001 r19: 0x0000000000000002
    r20: 0x00000000000017c0 r21: 0x00000000000017c0 r22: 0x0000000000000001 r23: 0x0000000005d83900
    r24: 0x0000000005d5cd30 r25: 0x00000000000005f0 r26: 0x000000006c1d1bb1 r27: 0x000000000626c6f0
    r28: 0x00000000062a4000 r29: 0x00000000062a57c0 r30: 0x00000000000044ee r31: 0x00000000925ab55c
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    Message was edited by: Phillyman -- reread post, corrected typos and clarified certain parts

    again thanks for the quick reply BDAqua,
    I just trashed all of them since with IMAP it will reload and I haven't really set mail up. Sadly though this didn't do any good.
    I did setup the account again but it crashes..
    The log looks similar only this time it's thread 7 that crashes. So if that's any help...
    Thanks,
    Phillyman
    PS: Eudora is looking more enticing by the minute
    Thread 7 Crashed:
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    3 ...entSemanticMappingFramework 0x97d84770 LSMCompiledMap::GetNBestCategories(__LSMText*, int, LSMCategoryScore*) + 24
    4 ...entSemanticMappingFramework 0x97d847ac LSMMapGetBestCategory + 40
    5 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9abbb60c MFJunkMailLevelForString + 140
    6 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab190ec -[MessageCriterion _evaluateJunkMailCriterion:] + 968
    7 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab16bac -[MessageCriterion doesMessageSatisfyCriterion:] + 368
    8 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab16828 -[MessageRule doesMessageSatisfyCriteria:] + 160
    9 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab16540 +[MessageRouter putRulesThatWantsToHandleMessage:intoArray:colorRulesOnly:] + 444
    10 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab162fc +[MessageRouter colorForMessage:highlightTextUsingColor:] + 96
    11 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab0130c -[MessageStore(MessageFrameworkOnly) updateMessages:updateColor:updateNumberOfAttachments:] + 592
    12 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab0d440 _unlockIfDidCacheMessages + 2084
    13 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9ab06bfc -[IMAPMailboxSyncEngine(Internal) _go] + 464
    14 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90a461f4 objc_msgSendv + 180
    15 com.apple.Foundation 0x92befc0c -[NSInvocation invoke] + 944
    16 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aaeb7a0 -[MonitoredInvocation invoke] + 144
    17 com.apple.MessageFramework 0x9aaf4e20 -[InvocationQueue _drainQueue] + 416
    18 com.apple.Foundation 0x92bf4118 forkThreadForFunction + 108
    19 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002bd08 pthreadbody + 96
    Thread 7 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
    srr0: 0x000000006c1d1bb0 srr1: 0x000000004000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
    cr: 0x44422248 xer: 0x0000000000000007 lr: 0x00000000925abb6c ctr: 0x000000006c1d1bb1
    r0: 0x00000000000005f0 r1: 0x00000000f0416cd0 r2: 0x000000009268b55c r3: 0x0000000000000002
    r4: 0x00000000000005f0 r5: 0x00000000000003e8 r6: 0x00000000063a2f30 r7: 0x0000000000004ae0
    r8: 0x00000000063e7000 r9: 0x0000000000000001 r10: 0x00000000065006dc r11: 0x00000000a20fb55c
    r12: 0x000000006c1d1bb1 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x00000000d191cfa3
    r16: 0x0000000000004ae0 r17: 0x0000000000000001 r18: 0x0000000000000001 r19: 0x0000000000000002
    r20: 0x00000000000017c0 r21: 0x00000000000017c0 r22: 0x0000000000000001 r23: 0x0000000006436e80
    r24: 0x0000000005fc62c0 r25: 0x00000000000005f0 r26: 0x000000006c1d1bb1 r27: 0x00000000063a46f0
    r28: 0x00000000063e7000 r29: 0x00000000063e87c0 r30: 0x00000000000044ee r31: 0x00000000925ab55c

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