Google Chat on Messages March 2015
Hi folks.
Is it true that Google Chat (Google Talk) is now unavailable in Messages? I read somewhere it has all moved to Hangouts and isn't available anymore.
Having moved to a new router, I can't seem to get this going. Anybody know what ports it is using?
Port 2553 using SSL?
Port 2552 non-SSL?
talk.google.com or gmail.com?
Any insight helpful.
Cheers
Hi,
Bonjour (generally) so it shows up in the Finder's Side Bar > Shares needs port 5353.
If you use the Chat/Messages features it uses port 5298 and 5297 (both on UDP and 5298 also on TCP)
AIM accounts (or Apple IDs that can be AIM Screen Names) used to login on port 5190 but now do so on port 443.
If you use File Transfers your need port 5190 on the UDP protocol.
Video, Audio Only chats and Screen Sharing in AIM, Jabber and Bonjour need port 5678 UDP to send the visible invite then port 16402 to send the SIP invite and data (actually it should be port 16393-16402 but it always starts top down).
Jabber needs either port 5222 for NON SSL logins or Port 5223 for SSL ones
iMessages uses port 5223 to check that your Contacts are registered with iMessages.
I am not aware that any part of iCloud uses this port.
This is from Using iChat with a firewall or NAT router - Apple Support And Using FaceTime and iMessage behind a firewall - Apple Support
You list iCloud as needing port 5223.
Was this for FaceTime, iMessages and this Google ID in Messages ?
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In my messages App, AIM is logged in fine but Google Chat won't connect.
In my Messages app, for the Google chat it just keeps attempting to connect and then times out before repeating the process over and over.
If I go to my actual Gmail tab in my broswer, it logs in to Google Chat just fine, so I know it's possible to connect.
This problem only happens when I travel (I'm a comedian). I have no issues on my home network, but I've seen this when connecting in some hotels, airports, and coffee shops (not all).
Any idea why I can't connect to Google Chat in Messages, but can in my browser?
Thanks for your help!
Josh SneedHI,
A Browser Login to Google is going to using port 443 to manage the secure bit about the Login process.
For much of the lifetime of iChat the regular posters in the iChat Forums were recommending changing to port 443 for AIM Logins and in iChat 6 it did actually become the default Login port.
Jabber Logins (and GoogleTalk is a Jabber server) happen on either port 5222 when they don't use SSL and port 5223 when they do.
Google do so the default port is 5223.
In a router the first 1024 ports are open (Allows Web Browsing, mostly port 80, Mail (loads of different ports but 25, 110 m 567, 589, 995 and some common ones) FTP on port 21 and 22, to name some).
Obviously port 5223 is above the 1024 threshold
This can mean in some places this port will not be open.
In some cases you will be able to convince the Hotel or Cafe to open the required ports
At home you have probably got UPnP set to Enabled in your router. (This allows the apps to "tell" the router which ports to open.)
However whilst travelling you may want to log in to GoogleTalk on port 443 (GoogleTalk will accept this)
You have to Disable (Untick the "Enable this account" box) the account to be able to change the port.
It still works with SSL.
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The old Google Chat / Messaging APP Problem.
ok so i HAD google chat working er, for a while and now its back to broken, did the usual tests we all do, delete everything, redo, make sure its all 100% accurate blah etc and came to thsi weird result.
making a new google account and using that = failed, the email app logs in gets all the mail no problem but the messaging app just loads forever trying to sign in and does nothing, weird as both apps use exactly the same account details.
however i tried a different approach and it works, why it works is beyond me, i created a new chat account via the actual google chat client on the pc, you get an option to setup a new google account/mail or use an existing non google one, in this case i used a spare hotmail account, i then tied that hotmail account into my primary google email account via the google webpage account prefs, set it as the secondary email.
I clicked new account on the touchpad, selected GOOGLE, then just entered my hotmail email which id just linked in, entered the password, and whammo it instantly works.
I'd have to ask why? and why does the proper method fail using a real google email, i only have 1 google email and wanted 1 seperate for the touchpad so i didnt have to use the 1 i use everyday on the pc but ALL newly made google accounts just fail time after time.
any thoughts here?it still doesnt work using the google email, deleted or otherwise, google chat will ONLY work when i add my hotmail details (secondary email on my google account) and not the actual google created email (primary mail), however the email app woudl always funtion with the google email flawlessly and only the messaging app would choke on the google email.
so now i have a sort of weird setup in my accounts list where the hotmail account/email is up for use by only the messaging app, i had to untick all the other options and just leave "Use Account With, Contacts ON, Messaging ON, and disabled Calendar/Email/Documents", but the google account/mail is used perfectly by every other app. -
Instant Messaging - Why is going through Google chat?
HI There,
I have upgraded to mountain lion on both my imac and macbook pro. I logged into the instant messaging today and I signed in with my apple ID, but then it used google chat to talk to people? I have anoher mac user who messages me and she said she uses it through the mac network. Im confused?
When I logged out of gmail. I went back to the chat and I couldnt chat anymore
Can someone more technical help me clarify?Hi,
On first run Messages asks you for an Apple ID.
It does not have to be linked to iCloud.
However it does generally mean you could be using an @mac.com @me.com or @icloud.com that is linked to iCloud.
As Apple IDs with these endings are also Valid AIM Screen Names you can use the Messages > Preferences > Accounts pane > + icon under the list to Add them as AIM names.
(1 Name 2 services)
If your Apple ID is an external email such as GoogleMail one then it too can be an Active Jabber ID is Messages (if you enable "Talk" on your Account settings at Google).
Potentially again 1 name 2 services.
Of course as some of these are emails they appear in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars and can be Enabled for Messages there.
However deleting an Account in Messages (Hit the - icon in the accounts list fro anything other than the iMesssages or Bonjour one) should "deactivate" it in the Mail, Contacts and Calendars pane. (As should just unticking the "Enable this Account box").
So....
Your Apple ID can be used for iMessages.
It may also be able to be the Name or ID for another service as well.
Accounts should be able to be Disabled in both the app (Preferences > Accounts) and in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars.
If you have an Apple ID that you then linked to iCloud like I did you may have the following:-
An external email that is the original Apple ID that allows access to your iCloud stuff.
An @me.com name that your were given at the initial launch of iCloud
And a Later @icloud.com one as well.
All three with the set password allow access to iCloud.
For iMessages they are separate IDs (it will try to link them like crazy if you have a second iPhone like I do and want to keep them separate)
For AIM they are considered as separate IDs.
Aside from making sure you understand the names and IDs that can be used with which services there odd occasions that are reported when the App will list telephone numbers Only and tell all existing chats lists in the main window are Bonjour Chats as you cycle through all of them.
Other people have reported loss of Names in the Chat listing and one particular service being listed at the "service" that it will be on. (I have seen threads list AIM and Jabber).
The "Bonjour" chat ones seems to be solved by doing a PRAM reset
Shut down the computer.
Restart it holding down Apple/CMD ( or ⌘)+ALT( ⌥)+P+R Keys until you have heard three Start Up Bongs.
The others seem to be linked to the Contacts App not list a My Card.
Your Details should appear at the My Card (Head and Shoulders icon)
If they do not use the Card Menu in the Contacts app to reset it.
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Google chat status always green
I noticed that since I activated my ipad and setup my gmail account, my google chat status is always green (available) even though my ipad is sleeping (wi-fi on). Google chat status never goes to "idle" or "offline". It works well on my iphone and mac. Any idea? It's annoying 'cause people are trying to contact me and get no response.
Hi,
iChat has several States that it can be in.
Available and Away are the simplest and can have Status Messages added to them.
Then for iChat 4 and 5 there is being Set to Invisible (Available at your end Off line to Buddies)
You can be Off Line, either by Logging out or setting the iChat > Preferences > General Section to Set Status to Off Line On Quit.
Idle is the time the computer calculates there has been no input from keyboard of mouse. It is about 10 mins. (The same as standard Hard Drive Sleep in Energy Saver.
This will make you appear Amber to your Buddies if the Status Message is Set to Available.
Other apps show Idle at Away messages as well but iChat does not, although sometimes mousing over a BUddy will tell you.
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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!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
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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
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Pete Laker
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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! -
Mountain Lion changes my google chat icon / avatar
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.2, and regularly, after a few days of use, I notice that my Google chat icon / image / avatar is being changed to an image that I have on my local machine, that I once had as my login avatar, but have not used now for over 8 years!
It seems that Mountain Lion is telling Google's chat (but not Google+, or facebook) to use this image as my avatar for google chat, even though I am not explicitly telling it to, AND both my contacts and login profile images (System Preferences -> Users & Groups) on my mac are set to the correct image I want.
Originially, my avatar was an animated gif, but I'm trying to replace that everywhere with a standard gif just in case that's the problem, but it doesn't seem to be helping!
Does anyone know where else I may be having this phantom image of me, from 8 years ago show up?? The picture is not my current login or contacts pictures...
I did look at this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19272677#19272677 but changing my contacts image, even to a standard jpg/gif, did not help.
Does anyone know where else I may be having this phantom image of me, from 8 years ago show up??Ok... I figured it out on my own...
Messages will regularly (~1 hour I think) change all the avatar/profile images it can for all the various jabber, AIM, etc (including gchat, since it's jabber protocol). I thought it was changing it to my Address book or "contacts" profile, or my login images, but these are independent of the one Messages was using (atleast for me). Here's how I fixed this for me:
Go to Mac OS Menu Bar (when focussed in Messages):
Messages -> Change My Picture...
Then drag an image you want to use into one of the "recents" tab, use the "other" tab, or take a picture of yourself using the web cam. Once you've selected a photo, you can crop it within the image window, or leave it alone. When you're ready, just click "done" button.
That's seeming to fix this PITA for me... why Apple decided my Mac's account image, Contacts profile, and Messages avatar image should all be different... beats me. -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in T-SQL! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Saeid and SQL-Pro!
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Windows Server! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Pierre-Alexandre and Mr X!
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Bitlocker Drive Encryption by
Darshana Jayathilake
Mark Parris: "Funcdermentals of Bitlocker."
JM: "This is a good article on Bitlocker, however it needs revision for clarity."
Richard Mueller: "Good images. Grammar and spelling need work."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SQL Server! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
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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,
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More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
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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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March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in PowerShell! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Noah, Richard, and Dan!
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
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