March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in WPF! 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.
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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)!"
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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
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Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
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Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
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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."
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Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
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Philip Munts
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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 !"
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Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
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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
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Mr X
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Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
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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."
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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
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Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
 Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
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Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
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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
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Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
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Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
 Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
Davut EREN
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
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 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!"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
RadioButton Alignment by
Andy ONeill
Ed Price: "Incredibly helpful resource that people will return to use!"
Peter Laker: "Thanks again Andy for more XAML goodness!"
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    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
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    Congrats to Muguresa, Melick, and Michaelle!
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider Hosted
    and SharePoint Hosted) – Search (Part2) by
    Melick
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good stuff - interesting approach for a JS API for JSOM"
    Ed Price: "Good breakdown of methods. Could benefit from more context and a See Also section at the end."
    SharePoint Online: How to change primary administrator for all site collections
    using Powershell by
    Arleta Wanat
    Margriet Bruggeman: "complete discussion of this problem"
    Ed Price: "An incredibly valuable topic!" 
    SharePoint 2013 : Displaying sum for calculated column in a list view using JSLink by
    Jaydeep Mungalpara
    Jinchun Chen: "Helpful"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "This is very useful, I've seen people ask for a solution like this"
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and use of images. Great to have the code download!" 
    THE PROVIDED APP DIFFERS FROM ANOTHER APP WITH THE SAME VERSION
    AND PRODUCT ID in SharePoint 2013 App Development by
    Melick
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Excellent explanation of the thought process behind solving this problem"
    Ed Price: "Great topic and use of images! Could benefit from more contextual explanation and a See Also section."
    SharePoint Hosted Apps - Create Enterprise WIKI page using REST API by
    Kashif Pervaiz Butt
    Ed Price: "Good intro, reference, and code formatting! Could benefit breaking out the code more and explaining each piece. Good to have the Reference link!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Great if you're looking for this exact code, but doesn't do much to explain what is going on."
    SharePoint 2013: Deleting Orphaned SharePoint Databases by
    Matthew Yarlett
    Jinchun Chen: "It is useful in mose cases."
    Ed Price: "Great job on the code formatting and explaining each part! "
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Handy, but I'm missing some insights why this has happened" 
    SharePoint 2010 : Batch Updates on List Items using SharePoint Designer Workflow by
    Murugesa Pandian
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The SharePoint Workflow is one of the most sought by the community resources." 
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I guess I expected some more depth, the intro is really nice and then the solution is presented and over before you know it." 
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and great use of images! Could benefit from Headers and a TOC. " 
    Configure a SharePoint server in non domain(Workgroup) environment by
    Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Didn't know that that was even possible, so cool! Although I feel this has limited usefulness." 
    Ed Price: "Good topic, but it could benefit from code formatting, Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. The images help with clarity!"
    Access SQL server database of any version of SharePoint Standalone farm by
    Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
    Ed Price: "Good use of images, with clear steps and good to have the Reference. Would benefit from a Reference section."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I feel there is a limited audience for this, and the complexity if the article is aslo limited. I do like the angle about sharepoint in a non-AD environment though, it's just not for me" 
    ADFS signout issue for SharePoint site in IE browser due to FedAuth Cookie by
    Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Very useful info, clear focus and article gets right to the point." 
    Ed Price: "Good write up. It's important to write articles in a Wiki perspective rather than a blog tone. Good description of the problem! Could benefit from code formatting." 
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in VB! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    I also want to congratulate Reed and Paul! Great articles from two pros!
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in T-SQL! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Saeid and SQL-Pro!
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Windows Server! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Pierre-Alexandre and Mr X!
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    Bitlocker Drive Encryption by
    Darshana Jayathilake
    Mark Parris: "Funcdermentals of Bitlocker."
    JM: "This is a good article on Bitlocker, however it needs revision for clarity."
    Richard Mueller: "Good images. Grammar and spelling need work."
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SQL Server! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Visakh! Just one article, but it's fantastic!
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in C#! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Isham, Tom, and Vithal!
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    Implementing equality comparison, what is the best approach? by
    Mansoor-Omrani
    Carmelo La Monica: "Very interesting article, the code sample is very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Love the code samples. And Thanks Andy for the guidance given in comments."
    Exchange: Error when using the latest version of exchange from user setting response
    by
    Prashant Mahajan
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Answers a specific problem when using EWS Managed API."
    Visual C#: RSA encryption using certificate by
    Wim Beck
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Nice. But it will be great, if there is more explanation to the code."
    Introduction to Asp.net Ajax and Ajax Control Toolkit by
    Vithal Wadje
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains AJAX in detail. Waiting till next article to see AJAX in action."
    Render Same Page With Multiple URLs Using Route Engine in ASP.Net MVC 5 by
    Tom Mohan
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Another short yet important article. "
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Windows Phone! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Damien and Carmelo!
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in PowerShell! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Noah, Richard, and Dan!
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SSRS! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Jens and Ricardo!
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in SSAS! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    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!
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    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Jens and Ricardo!
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Azure! 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 Sara, Ken, and Prashant!
     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!"
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    The Way to Migrate to Hyper-v/Azure by
    Samir Farhat
    Ed Price: "I like the formatting, use of images, and connecting it into the series at the bottom! Could use section headers (with TOC) and a See Also section. Great clarity in this article!"
    JH: "An article with some potential about moving non-Microsoft virtualized environments to Hyper-V or Azure."
    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 FIM! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
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    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
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    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Tracy and Wim!
     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"
    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 SSIS! It could be YOU!

    The results for March's
    TechNet Guru competition were posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
    Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
    Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
    the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
    Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
    Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
    Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Tracy Yu-MSFT
    The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
    AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
    Wim Beck
    FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
    AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
    Another helpful resource"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015  
    saramgsilva
    Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
    JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
    Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
    this!"
    Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
    Ken Cenerelli
    Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
    Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
    JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
    Prashant Mahajan
    Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
    JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
    Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Murugesa Pandian
    Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
    KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
    Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
    Melick
    JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
    Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
    Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
    Michaelle de las Alas
    Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
    Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
    Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement." 
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Philip Munts
    Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
    RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
    Yan Grenier
    Small Basic: Timeline for the games
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
    RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
    RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Visakh16
    Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
    AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
    DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
    was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
    "C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
    format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
    also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
    Mr X
    How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
    Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
    Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
    Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
    Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
    Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
    sql-pro
    T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
    Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
    Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Reed Kimble
    Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
    Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
    Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
    .paul.
    Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
    Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
    Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Isham Mohamed
    Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
    Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
    Tom Mohan
    .NET: Equality Features
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
    Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
    Vithal Wadje
    Constructors and Its Types in C#
    Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
    Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Davut EREN
    Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
    Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
    Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
    Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    TechNet Wiki - Images
    Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
    Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Damien Allan
    Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
    JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
     Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Noah Stahl
    Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
    and Twilio
    Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
    Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
    Richard Mueller
    PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
    Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
    Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
    Dan Christian
    Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
    Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
    Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Andy ONeill
    Uneventful MVVM
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
    Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
    Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
    Tom Mohan
    Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
    Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
    Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
    with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
    Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
    JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
    Mr X
    Netstat for Beginners
    JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
    Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
    Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
    Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
    Manager and a Synology DS412j
    Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
    JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
    Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
    As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
    main announcement post.
    Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
    If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
    here's your chance! :D
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
    you could win weekly awards!
    Have you got what it takes o become this month's
    TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!

    Congrats to Jens and Ricardo!
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015  
    Jens Vestergaard
    SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
    RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
    PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
    Ricardo Lacerda
    SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
    PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
    RB: "Great article !"
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in BizTalk! 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 Steef-Jan and Steef-Jan! =^)
    The community wins along with Steef-Jan for getting these great articles!
     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)!"
    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 Visio! 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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     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015  
    XAML guy
    Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
    Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
    Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
    Andy ONeill
    Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
    Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
    Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
    one more time... Good job Andy!"
    Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
    Tom Mohan
    Zen coding with Visual Studio
    Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
    Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
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