Query BitLocker System center 2007 (English)

I require to obtain a list of equipments that complies with encrypt policy since SCCM 2007 console.
The query that I´m generating is the next
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SELECT v_R_System.Name0 AS Computername,
v_GS_BitLocker.ProtectionStatus0 AS [Bitlocker Status],
v_GS_BitLocker.DriveLetter0 AS DriveLabel
FROM v_GS_BitLocker INNER JOIN
v_R_System ON v_GS_BitLocker.ResourceID = v_R_System.ResourceID
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I detect v_GS_BitLocker object does not exist
As I have investigared I found the actions that are executed on SCCM client are not collecting the Bitloker information. So I understand even the object exists, in the database of the server this information is empty
Could you please confirm this?, or if it is possible obtain this information, thanks
Josué Noé Chávez

Hi,
Please refer to the link below:
Getting BitLocker status from clients using Hardware Inventory in Configuration Manager 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2010/11/22/getting-bitlocker-status-from-clients-using-hardware-inventory-in-configuration-manager-2007.aspx
Otherwise, your question seems to be related to SCCM 2007. You may also choose to post there to get more effictive help.
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    Isham Mohamed
    Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
    Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
    Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
    Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
    Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
    Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
    mcosmin
    The Performance Analyzer Paradox
    Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
    Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
    Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
    Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
    dev hedgehog
    Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
    Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
    Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
    JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
    JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
    Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
    Mr X
    How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
    JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
    JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
    Mahdi Tehrani
    Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
    JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
    JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
    Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
    ----------------- 8< -------------------
    As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
    Read all about THIS month's competition [usually in a stickied post] at the top of this forum, otherwise there is usually a list of forum links for this month's theme/announcement at the bottom of the submission page below:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23837.technet-guru-contributions-for-april-2014.aspx
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!
    If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
    Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.

    Congrats to Mr X, Idan, and Omar:
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
    combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
    Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
    Idan Vexler
    Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM  
    Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
    Omar Lopez (loplim)
    SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
    alert )
    Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
    Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • April's TechNet Wiki System Center Guru Winners announced!!

    The results for March'sTechNet
    Guru competition have been posted!
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
    Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
    We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
    Below is a summary of the medal winners, 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 shown in the link above.
    Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Tomasso Groenendijk
    Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
    Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
    TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
    Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
    TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
    boatseller
    Detecting a Missing Message
    Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
    Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
    TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Eihab Isaac
    FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process
    Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!"
    PG: "Nice article, we need more of these."
    Micah Rowland
    FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes
    Side By Side
    PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written"
    Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!"
    Giriraj Singh
    FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features
    Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!"
    PG: "Short but nice article."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Matthew Yarlett
    SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet
    Jinchun Chen: "Good article."
    Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell
    you are second to none." This is a great article!" 
    Rahul A Shinde
    SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell
    Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!" 
    Matthew Yarlett
    SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too."
    Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!"
     Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window
    RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it."
    Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic Known Issue: 23589
    - Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote
    RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!"
    Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Expression
    RZ: "Good introduction to expressions"
    Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Michael Amadi
    A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data
    Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets
    NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article"
    Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014  
    chandra sekhar pathivada
    managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
    Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
    tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
    NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
    DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based
    on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
    Shanky
    Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
    Server restart
    NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
    DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
    tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
    Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!" 
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
    combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
    Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
    Idan Vexler
    Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM  
    Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
    Omar Lopez (loplim)
    SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
    alert )
    Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Jayakumaur (JK)
    Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
    Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
    Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
    Durval Ramos
    Paging a Query with SQL Server
    Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
    Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
    Naomi N
    T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
    Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
    Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014  
    The Thinker 
    Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
    SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
    way, although the code is simple enough to work through." 
    MR: "Great tool code!" 
    Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
    iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!" 
    Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014  
    João Sousa
    ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
    NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
    Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
    Raghunathan S
    C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
    Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
    NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
    Raghunathan S
    Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
    NN: "Good article, but too short"
    Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Matthew Yarlett
    Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
    BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
    quality a lot."
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
    PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
    NN: "Good article"
    Durval Ramos
    VBA & VBS Portal
    NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
    PG: "Nice article good start!"
    BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
    Mr X
    Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
    NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
    Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
    PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
    BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Isham Mohamed
    Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
    Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
    Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
    Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
    Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
    Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
    Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
    mcosmin
    The Performance Analyzer Paradox
    Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
    Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
    Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
    Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
    dev hedgehog
    Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
    Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
    Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
     Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
    JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
    JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
    Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
    Mr X
    How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
    JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
    Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
    JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
    Mahdi Tehrani
    Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
    JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
    JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
    Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
    ----------------- 8< -------------------
    As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
    A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
    Read all about THIS month's competition [usually in a stickied post] at the top of this forum, otherwise there is usually a list of forum links for this month's theme/announcement at the bottom of the submission page below:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23837.technet-guru-contributions-for-april-2014.aspx
    Best regards,
    Pete Laker
    More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
    TechNet Guru Competitions
    #PEJL
    Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to the one and only
    TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again!
    If you are a member of any user groups, please make sure you list them in the
    Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.

    Congrats to Mr X, Idan, and Omar:
     System Center Technical Guru - March 2014  
    Mr X
    How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
    combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
    Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
    Idan Vexler
    Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM  
    Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
    Omar Lopez (loplim)
    SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
    alert )
    Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
    Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • System Center TechNet Guru Announced for June 2014

    The Results are in! And the winners of the TechNet Guru Competition June 2014 have been posted on the
    Wiki Ninjas Blog.
    Below is a summary, heavily trimmed to fit the size restrictions of forum posting.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    BizTalk Server: Custom Archiving
    TGN: "This one was my favorite this month. Archiving is a topic that is brought up often. Well done explaining it simply and how to do it according to best practice"
    Sandro Pereira: "Love the topic, well explain and with everything you need, my favorite."
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great addition to the Wiki. "
    boatseller
    BizTalk: Reducing and Consolidating WCF Serialization Schema Types
    TGN: "Very good, keeping the code clean, and only referencing what you need and consolidate it is important!"
    Mandi Ohlinger: "Great solution to somewhat-annoying behavior. Nice addition to the Wiki!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Great article."
    Murugesan Mari Chettiar
    How to Implement Concurrent FIFO Solution in BizTalk Server
    Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough in your explanations! Great formatting. Good job!"
    TGN: "First in, first out. Great article Murugesan!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Good additional to the TechNet Wiki, good work."
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Remi Vandemir
    Custom Reports in FIM2010R2
    AM: "Great step-by-step guide for generating custom reports. Thanks for taking the time to put this together."
    PG: "Nice article, in an area that is less known!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Very comprehensive."
    Ed Price: "Great job on the intro, and a lot of images really help clarify all the steps!"
    GO: "Thank you "
    Eihab Isaac
    FIM 2010 R2: Review pending export changes to Active Directory using XSLT
    Ed Price: "Great introduction, great steps, and great job on the image and code formatting!"
    GO: "An introduction, a sample code, images, a TOC and a conclusion. Nothing here to preserve the GOLD medal!"
    PG: "Nice article!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice and precise"
    Scott Eastin
    A Practical Alternative to the PeopleSoft
    AM: "Thank you for sharing. Great (and probably superior) alternative for those using PeopleSoft as import-only data source."
    GO: "Amazing article, love it so much"
    PG: "Would like to see more elaborated details in this article."
    Søren Granfeldt: "A little more technical stuff would be nice"
    Ed Price: "Some good community collaboration in removing blog-like personalization. This is a great topic with some good holistic thinking!"
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Mr X
    Configuration of WATM (Windows Azure Traffic Manager) for Web Portals hosted
    on Azure VMs
    JH: "Two simple words: Love it! The detailed explanation on how Traffic Manager works is awesome."
    Ed Price: "Wow! Incredibly well written, with beautiful diagrams and a great use of images and tables! Great topic!"
    GO: "This is a great article! Thanks Mr.X"
    Mr X
    How to use Windows Azure as Traffic Manager for Web portals
    hosted in multiple on-premise datacenters
    JH: "Very detailed! Great explanation at the beginning followed by a good step-by-step guide."
    Ed Price: "A much needed article! Great job on the formatting and images!"
    GO: "Thanks again, MR.X"
    Mr X
    How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure
    GO: "I really enjoyed reading this article, clever and well written. Lovely done!"
    JH: "Great article! I especially love the amount of pictures provided in the article."
    Ed Price: "Good procedural article! Great use of images!"
     Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Mr X
    How to open Visio files without Visio
    AH: "This Article is pretty basic and lacks details. Visio Viewer doesn't just open in IE but also in Outlook and File explorer. The writer should include the link to http://blogs.office.com/2012/11/28/download-the-free-microsoft-visio-viewer/
    this blog which has lot more details "
    Ed Price: "Good. I think the SEO on the title will drive more awareness of the Visio Viewer."
    GO: "Thanks you Mr.X! Again a great article!"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Ed Price - MSFT
    Yammer: Announcements Feature
    TGN: "Wow, not only is this a good way on how to write annoncments on Yammer, but in generel. Really, really great write-up Ed! T"
    GO: "Tord says on the comment section: "Very nice article, Ed. I really enjoyed reading it and you had a great set of tips. Thanks for sharing!".. I only can respond AMEN! Thanks Ed!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good discussion of announcements feature."
    Anthony Caragol
    Backing Up and Restoring Lync 2013 Contacts
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Short & Sweet"
    GO: "Great article, but I'm missing, examples, images, definitions etc for a huge section like "backup and restore""
    TGN: "Very good, Lync has eaten up the market and is a key product in most companies, articles like this is very valuable. Great work Anthony!"
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Geetanjali Arora
    SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles
    Benoît Jester: "A very good article, a must-read for those interested by SharePoint Online and the use of search and user profile API."
    Jinchun Chen: "Excellent. Just a tip, if you would like to improve the performance, please use the Search Service to search user profiles"
    Craig Lussier: "Good walkthrough and code example for getting started with People Search!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good starter for working with search and profiles"
    Jaydeep Mungalpara
    Creating Bookmarks in Wiki Pages - SharePoint Rich Text Editor Extension
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Really cool! In the past, I was actually looking for this and its a nice implementation of this functionality. This article gets my vote!"
    Craig Lussier: "Great solution for extending out of the box functionality. I like the synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery!"
    GO: "Simple but powerfull. We should all take an example about how this article has been written. This article has a TOC, headings and even a code! Well done!"
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice. "
    Benoît Jester: "A simple button which can save a lot of time!"
    Dan Christian
    PowerShell to copy or update list items across SharePoint sites and farms
    GO: "The best artice for June! Thanks Dan, you deserve the GOLD medal!"
    Benoît Jester: "A good article with useful scripts, as they can be used fior many scenarios (data refresh, migration tests, ...)"
    Jinchun Chen: "Good and low-cost solution. To be automatic, we can use EventHandle instead. "
    Craig Lussier: "Nice PowerShell script solution and explanation of the scenario. Consider using functions with parameters for easier reuse so input parameters are not hard coded."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "This script can be useful, although typically migration scenarios are more complex than this. Having said that, I probably end up using this script some time in in the future"
     Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2014  
    litdev
    Small Basic: Sprite Arrays
    Ed Price: "An important topic that's well described with fantastic examples! Great article!"
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great starter for Sprite Fundamentals and how to handle them. Briljant start point for greating you 2D shooter"
    Jibba Jabba
    Small Basic - Monthly Challenge Statistics
    Ed Price: "Jibba Jabba brings us astonishing insights and data about LitDev's Small Basic Monthly Challenges!"
    RZ: "This is very nicely done and showed all the statistics visually"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Challenge of the Month
    RZ: "This is very nicely done and organized all challenges of the month in one place"
    Ed Price: "Although this is very basic, it's incredibly helpful to get all these in one list and to access all the great challenges!"
    Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good explainer on  fundamental structures."
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Anil Maharjan
    Using Power Query to tell your story form your Facebook Data
    Jinchun Chen: "Interesting. I liked this best"
    PT: "Plenty to like here" 
    Ed Price: "Great! I love to see Power Query articles like this! Great formatting and use of images!"
    Tim Pacl
    SSRS Expressions: Part 1 - Program Flow
    PT: "A very comprehensive article about program flow expressions. Nice job. I'm sure many will benefit from this article. Just a little feedback about some terminology that could be more clear: The entire statement that
    is typically used to set a property value for an object in an SSRS report is an "expression". Each of the three programming constructs you've mentioned (e.g. IIF, SWITCH & CHOOSE) are "functions" and not expressions or statements."
    Jinchun Chen: "Perfect! Good article for SSRS newbie." 
    Ed Price: "The table and images help bring it more value. Great job!"
    Anil Maharjan
    How to Schedule and Automate backups of all the SSAS catalogs within the
    Server Instance
    PT: "This is a very useful article about automating multiple Analysis Services database backups using an SSIS package and the SQL Server Agent. Nice job."
    Jinchun Chen: "Good." 
    Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could be improved with better code formatting. Good job!"
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Shanky
    SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify
    in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
    DB: "Interesting and detailed"
    DRC: "• This is a good article and provides details of each and every step and the output with explanation. Very well formed and great information. • We can modify the create table query with “DEFAULT VALUES". CREATE TABLE [dbo].[INDEXCOMPRESSION](
    [C1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [C2] [char](50) NULL DEFAULT 'DEFAULT TEST DATA' ) ON [PRIMARY]"
    GO: "Very informative and well formed article as Said says.. Thanks for that great ressource. "
    Durval Ramos
    How to get row counts for all Tables
    GO: "As usual Durva has one of the best articles about SQL Server General and Database Engine articles! Thanks, buddy!" "
    Jinchun Chen: "Another great tip!"
    PT: "Nice tip" 
    Ed Price: "Good topic, formatting, and use of images. This would be far better if the examples didn't require the black bars in the images. So it would be better to scrub the data before taking the screenshots. Still a good article. Thank
    you!"
     System Center Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Prajwal Desai
    Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
    Ed Price: "Great depth on this article! Valuable topic. Good use of images."
    Mr X
    How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
    pools using Orchestrator
    MA: "Good job Mr X, However I would like to see this runbook integrated as a recovery task with Operations Manager IISapppools Monitors in order to maintain a standard way of notifications and availability reporting."
    Ed Price: "Good formatting on the images, and great scenario!"
    Prajwal Desai
    How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
    Ed Price: "Great job documenting the entire process!!!"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Saeid Hasani
    T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords
    JS: "I loved the article, well structured, to the point. Not missing any caveats that might occur, really good in the end. I would suggest changing the function to accept a whitelist / blacklist as well as a length of
    the password to be created. This would be the cherry on the pie :-)"
    Samuel Lester: "Very nice writeup for a real world problem!"
    Richard Mueller: "Clever and apparently well researched. I liked the detailed step by step explanations."
    Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!"
    Manoj Pandey: "A good and handy utility TSQL that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
    Hasham Niaz
    T-SQL : Average Interval Length
    Richard Mueller: "A good article, but I need more explanation of the concepts."
    Manoj Pandey: "A handy TSQL script that I can use and levarage if I have to use similar feature in future."
    Visakh16
    T-SQL: Retrieve Connectionstring Details from SSIS Package
    Manoj Pandey: "Good shortcut by using TSQL with XML to read metadata information from SSIS XML file."
    Samuel Lester: "Handy trick, thanks for posting!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good code, but more explanation needed. Could use a See Also section."
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2014  
    The Thinker
    Better to Ask for forgiveness then permission
    Richard Mueller: "Good use of images and code. The humorous title might be better in a blog."
    MR: "Great topic!"
    GO: "Well, to be honnest, many people worked on that article, but still, the owner "the thinker" should receive the credits! muchos gracias "The Thinker" for the Most Revised Article"
     Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Jaliya Udagedara
    Entity Framework Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations
    and Fluent API
    Ed Price: "Wow. Good descriptions, great code snippets, and great job highlighting sections on your images!"
    GO: "Thank you."
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - June 2014  
    XAML guy
    History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
    Ed Price: "It's amazing to see all the details of what this tool does. Great job on the descriptions and formatting the images and text!"
    Richard Mueller: "Great documentation. Good links to explain everything."
    GO: "I love your articles XAML guy! Always clear and always a pleasure to read! Thanks for you help and commitment for this tool."
    Durval Ramos
    HTML5 Portal
    Ed Price: "This is great to see this HTML5 resource!"
    Richard Mueller: "A great contribution to our collection of portals"
    GO: "The HTML5 Portal is A-W-E-S-O-M-E !"
    João Sousa
    ASP.NET Portal
    Ed Price: "Good job on this portal! The Return to top links are helpful!"
    Richard Mueller: "More should be done to distinguish this portal from
    here."
    GO: "Thanks Joao!"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Dave Smits
    Theming of your application
    Peter Laker: "Another great article from the mighty Dave. Very useful. Not sure if MS like us want us to work around the accents so much though ;)"
    Ed Price: "Very useful topic and great formatting on the code! Could benefit from more explanation on the code toward the bottom and a See Also section. Great article!"
    saramgsilva
    Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio
    Peter Laker: "A great introduction! Nice walkthrough, and plenty to look at!"  
    Ed Price: "This is good. I love the narrative and use of images! Good conclusion!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    Create Universal Application with Windows Phone App Studio (en-US).
    Peter Laker: "Sensational article. A real attention grabber and written very clearly."  
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the narrative and images. Some amazing articles this month!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Magnus (MM8)
    WPF: How To Tab Between Items In a ListBox
    KJ: "This article seemed very useful to me. The kind of thing that I might need and here's the answer."
    GO: "Thanks for that great article!."
    Ed Price: "Another amazing article from Magnus! Great job on the topic choice (very needed scenario), formatting, code, explanations, and See Also section. Fantastic article!"
    Sugumar Pannerselvam
    Lets forget about limitations and temprorary fix... Think about 4.5 features
    KJ: "Wish there were code samples and more flushed out scenarios"
    GO: "Why second place? the layout and way to explain didn't convince me. Doesn't mean that the article is bad. The article is awesome; but it's missing something."
    Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Could benefit from adding in some code snippet examples and images. Good topic choice."
     Windows Server Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Mr X
    DHCP on Windows Servers – Why are the expired IP addresses not getting re-assigned?
    JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
    Richard Mueller: "Important information with good explanation. Needs a See Also section."
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like how it's explained versus Windows Server. An image with the DHCP's process could be a good addition for reference. (DHCP OFFER, DHCP ACK, etc..)"
    Mr X
    How to force a DHCP database cleanup for expired leases in a specific scope
    GO: "I'm actually thinking that nobody can defaut you Mr.X"
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I would add that changing the lease time to be shorted could help too."
    JM: "A very good article, however you might consider adding this content as a section in your article about expired IP addresses in DHCP"
    Richard Mueller: "More good information. Should be linked to the other DHCP article."
    GL: "This is OK but a better solution for a highly utilized DHCP scope would be to shorten the lease time and/or configure a superscope."
    Hicham KADIRI
    Windows Server Core 2012 R2 - Initial configuration
    GL: "This is good required information. I would really like to see information added about how to add a server role. You might consider providing PowerShell alternatives to the netsh and other commands."  
    JM: "This is a great to-the-point article on how to configure a Core install of Windows Server, nice work."
    Richard Mueller: "A great collection of useful tools. Some could use images, more detail, or examples. The example sections could be added to the Table of Contents."
    GO: "Well, our new french MVP! Well written Hicham! Do not forget to pray attention for the layout! It's capital for readers and judges!"
    Philippe Levesque: "I like the article, a good resumé of the command you need to do to configure a server."
    Don't forget the full version, with runners up is available
    here.
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    Congrats to Prajwal and Mr X!
     System Center Technical Guru - June 2014  
    Prajwal Desai
    Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
    Ed Price: "Great depth on this article! Valuable topic. Good use of images."
    Mr X
    How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
    pools using Orchestrator
    MA: "Good job Mr X, However I would like to see this runbook integrated as a recovery task with Operations Manager IISapppools Monitors in order to maintain a standard way of notifications and availability reporting."
    Ed Price: "Good formatting on the images, and great scenario!"
    Prajwal Desai
    How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
    Ed Price: "Great job documenting the entire process!!!"
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    Installing a legacy boot image in SCCM to support XP migrations by
    Dave Jaskie
    Ed Price: "Good use of images to show the steps!"
    How to deploy .net framework using SCCM 2012 R2 by
    Prajwal Desai
    Ed Price: "Good job with the descriptions through the process."
    Server 2003 R2 Distribution Points in a ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Environment by
    Phil U
    Ed Price: "Great job explaining this scenario!"
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    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • Calling all System Center users! May TechNet Gurus announced!

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

    Congrats to Mr X, WP, and Christoffer!
     System Center Technical Guru - May 2014  
    Mr X
    Central Management of DSRM password on Domain Controllers using Orchestrator
    Ed Price: "The images really carry you through this article. Great execution!"
    GO: "Great article. I like your article Mr X! Thanks for your passion!"
    Kevin Holman: "Nice to see real world examples of Orchestrator in action solving problems that all customers have. This was very simple, but provides an excellent solution."
    W P Chomak
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Customizing E-Mail Notifications
    AB: "Easy reading info that can help many"
    Ed Price: "Short and sweet. An incredibly valuable topic and needed addition to the Wiki!"
    GO: "Clever and well written. Thanks"
    Christoffer S
    System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Install applications in a task sequence based on AD-Groups
    Ed Price: "Good mix of code, images, and information. Could use more in-depth descriptions. Great article!"
    GO: "Clear and simple! Thank you!"
    Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
    System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Add Powershell – Active Directory module in Windows PE by
    Christoffer S
    GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal."
    Ed Price: "Clear and well formatted! Great topic! Check out the comment from Team Fox."
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Capacity Limits for URL Monitoring by
    W P Chomak
    Kevin Holman: "Very cool, but needs more details on the technical bits, what types of URL's, tools used."
    Ed Price: "Basic info, but it's very well executed!" 
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 - Monitoring the Monitor by
    W P Chomak
    Kevin Holman: "Excellent option for ensuring SCOM is working as it should. There are several other examples on blogs, and a composite approach is often the best method."
    Ed Price: "Great depth on this article and very clear! Please note that in SCOM 2012 R2 we recommend multiple management servers, so the script wouldn't be necessary. Thanks for the contribution!"
    GO: "Images are not working, so I'll exclude it."
    Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • Team Foundation Server 2010 and System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager WorkItem Synchronization fail

    Hello,
    We are currently implementing a Devops solution with SCOM 2012 SP1 and TFS 2010 SP1 and we would like to synchronize APM alerts with TFS and the Operational Issue WorkItem. However we are not
    able to sync anything.
    Here is our environments :
    Products :
    SCOM
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1
    French
    OS: Windows 2012 SP1 Std x64
    French
    DB: SCOM SQL Server 2012 SP1 x64
    Management Pack
    MP Operations Manager TFS Work Item Synchronisation 7.0.9538.0
    MP Alert Attachement 7.0.9538.0 (We have also try the version in the VM DEVOPSALL : 7.0.9538.1005)
    TFS
    Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1
    French 10.0.40219.1
    OS: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Std x64
    French
    DB: TFS SQL Server 2008 x64
    TFS 2012 Object Model Installer (We have also try the version 2010)
    Here is our configuration :
    TFS Platform                                                                                                                              
    This a French platform with a project based on the Process Template SCRUM 1.0 alone in a Team Project collection. The Operational Issue import completed successfully. It’s possible to manipulate
    Operational Issue for all of its states from TFS.
    SCOM Platform
    We followed the documentation at :
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj883936.aspx
    to configure SCOM Alert Attachment and Operation Manager Tfs Work Item Synchronization. Everything seems to be ok. All configurations succeed. We did not configure Intellitrace collector.
    The problem occurs when we are trying to push an APM alert to TFS. When we assigned an alert to the Engineering nothing is synchronized in TFS. There is no error in the event viewer on the TFS
    server. But, on the SCOM server we get 2 exceptions raised by  Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsWISync.OMModules. We provide you the log of the SCOM Server in this mail.
    Detailed exceptions :
    Exception message are in French. In English it could be : OEF expected. The followed elements are not closed : Source, Link.
    Microsoft.SystemCenter.TfsWISync.SyncAttachments.Rule
    TFS Work Item Synchronisation ServerName
    {EC924637-2725-7C94-8F37-013B657F4530}
    Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.OMModules.ReadOpenAlertsModule
    System.Xml.XmlException: Fin de fichier inattendue. Les éléments suivants ne sont pas fermés : Source, Link. Ligne 1, position 65537.
       à System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
       à System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
       à System.Xml.XmlReader.ReadString()
       à System.Xml.XmlReader.ReadElementString(String name)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.Common.DataItems.Links.DeserializeInternal(XmlReader reader)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.Common.DataItems.Links.Deserialize(String mappings)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.OMModules.ReadOpenAlertsModule.InitializeConfiguration(XmlReader reader)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.OMModules.ReadOpenAlertsModule..ctor(ModuleHost`1 moduleHost, XmlReader configurationReader, Byte[] previousState)
    Microsoft.SystemCenter.TfsWISync.SyncWorkItems.Rule
    TFS Work Item Synchronisation ServerName
    {EC924637-2725-7C94-8F37-013B657F4530}
    Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.OMModules.ReadAlertsSyncModule
    System.Xml.XmlException: Fin de fichier inattendue. Les éléments suivants ne sont pas fermés : Source, Link. Ligne 1, position 65537.
       à System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
       à System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
       à System.Xml.XmlReader.ReadString()
       à System.Xml.XmlReader.ReadElementString(String name)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.Common.DataItems.Links.DeserializeInternal(XmlReader reader)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.Common.DataItems.Links.Deserialize(String mappings)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.OMModules.ReadAlertsSyncModule.InitializeConfiguration(XmlReader reader)
       à Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Modules.Apm.TfsConnector.OMModules.ReadAlertsSyncModule..ctor(ModuleHost`1 moduleHost, XmlReader configurationReader, Byte[] previousState)
    According to you, is there a possible incompatibility of the synchronization system with French environments?
    Thanks for your  help.
    Gregory OTT => http://twitter.com/gregory_ott
    ALM Engineer at Tekigo => www.tekigo.com

    Hi,
    To monitor the complete TFS infrastructure, you need additional monitoring packs that alert you about a wide range of problems with TFS components. When you import the TFS Work Item Synchronization management pack, it is a best practice to
    also import and configure these monitoring packs, you can double check these:
    Monitoring Integration between Operations Manager and TFS in System Center 2012 SP1
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj899893.aspx
    We
    are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this
    interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time.
    Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.

  • System Center TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced

    All the votes are in! 
    And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
    For a full list of winners,
    see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
     BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Agustín Mántaras
    Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
    Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
    Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
    Johns-305 [boatseller]
    BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
    Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
    Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
    Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
    Steef-Jan Wiggers
    Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
    Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
    Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!" 
     Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Wim Beck
    Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
    Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
    PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. " 
     Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Chervine
    Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
    JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
    Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
    Chilbeto
    Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
    TN: "Great "
    JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
    Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
    saramgsilva
    Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
    Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
    JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
    on GitHub." 
     Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Mr X
    Unattended installation of Visio 2013
    Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
    AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
    Overall decent article"
     Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Brian Nadjiwon
    How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
    Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
    Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
    Andy ONeill
    Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
    Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
    Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
    saramgsilva
    How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
    Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
    Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
     SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Geetanjali Arora
    SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
    TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
    Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
    GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
    Jinchun Chen: "Great."
    Steven Andrews
    Building a list specific search with JavaScript
    TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
    Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
    GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
    Dan Christian
    No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
    Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
    GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
    Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
     Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
    RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
    Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
    GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
    Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
    RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
    Nonki Takahashi
    Small Basic: International Resources
    Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
     SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Visakh16
    Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
    MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
    RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
    Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
    Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
    Jan D'Hondt
    Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
    Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
    MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
    RB: "interesting work-around."
    Anushka Weerakkodyge
    Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
    RB: "nice walkthrough"
    Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
    MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
    Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
     SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Shanky
    In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
    AM: "Well covered."
    Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
    Ronen Ariely
    Representing list of values using a single value
    Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
    AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
    Visakh16
    Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
    AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
    Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
     System Center Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
    in 06 Steps
    Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
    GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
     Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Visakh16
    Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
    Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
    GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
    Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
    Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
    JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
    Ronen Ariely
    INSTEAD OF Triggers
    Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
    JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
    triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
    Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
    GO: "Thanks" 
    Praveen Rayan D'sa
    Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
    GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
    Jinchun Chen: ""
    Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
    Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
    JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
    as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
    account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
    quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
     Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014  
    .paul.
    Image balloonTips
    Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
    Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!" 
    .paul.
    Image Arrow Pointers
    Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person." 
    Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
    Paul Ishak
    Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
    Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
    Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
     Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Chervine
    Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
    Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
    DB: "Interesting"
    Magnus (MM8)
    C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
    Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
    DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
    Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
    saramgsilva
    File exporter for IEnumerable of T
    Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
    Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
    Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics" 
     Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Durval Ramos
    Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
    Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
    Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
    GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
     Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014  
    saramgsilva
    How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
    JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
    Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
    Carmelo La Monica
    The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
    JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
    Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
    saramgsilva
    Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
    JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
    so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
    Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
     Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Andy ONeill
    WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
    Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
    KJ: "awesome" 
    saramgsilva
    How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
    Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
    GO: "She did it again. Great article." 
    Shweta Lodha
    PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
    KJ: "handy"
    Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
    GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
     Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Richard Mueller
    Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
    Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
    GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
    JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
    Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
    Darshana Jayathilake
    Some useful features with Windows Group policies
    JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
    GO: "I like the article; so great written"
    Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
    Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
    Mr X
    How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
    Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
    JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
    GO: "Merci, Mr X"
    Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
    -------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
    A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
    Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
    November 2014's listings?
    If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented 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 Alan! Only one article, but it's a good one!
     System Center Technical Guru - October 2014  
    Alan do Nascimento Carlos
    ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
    in 06 Steps
    Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
    GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
    Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
    Small Basic,
    Wiki Ninjas,
    Wiki)
    Answer an interesting question?
    Create a wiki article about it!

  • System center 2012R2 licensing suggestion.

    Hello,
    I am reading about system center licensing but getting more and more confused, so any help is greatly appreciated.
    I want to implement SCOM to monitor following servers:
    win server (90% Virtual machines) - 80 (apprx)
    unix /linux server (50% Virtual machines) -  25
    6 Vmware ESX host (3 with 16 and 3 with 24 processor each)
    Networking switches and firewall from Dell (looks like scom monitoring is free for them)
    and SCCM 2012 R2 with FEP for apprx 1200 WIN 8 client machines
    also maintain inventory + FEP for above win servers.
    most of my servers have single core CPU, but some of have them 4 and 2-3 have 8 virtual cores.
    Now that I understand no license is needed for actual products like SCCM and SCOM, how many and which user cal's do I need in all for my clients together?
    My doubts are:
    - Do I need standard or datacenter approach or can it be mix
    - does the sml's or client machine license covers FEP or is it separate license
    - If I manage a server with both SCCM and SCOM, then 1 need just 1 SMLs not 2.
    - also are they just paper license or do I need to add them in the products.
    Thanks in Advance

    hello,
    Sytem Center 2012/2012 R2 is not complexe to understand the licensing model.
    for your Servers: you nedd System Center Standard for each physical Server with 2 CPUs to manage 2 VMs.
     for example: if you have one Server with 4 CPUs and 6 VMs than you Need 3 System Center Standard or 1 System Center datacenter.
    if you have one Server with 2 CPUs and 8 VMs than you Needs: 4 std or 1 datacenter.
    2. for Clients: you Needs 1200 Systen Center Configuration Manager Client mangement License(CML) + 1200 System Center Endpoint Protection as a subscription in open value for example.
    3. if you manage for example one Server with 2 CPUs and 2 VMs with SCCM and SCOM than you Need only 1 System Center Standard while the compenents of System Center 2012 are all included on the std or datacent suites. standalone compenents will no longer
    be sold separately.
    4. you Need to add System Center products on your Server products.
    I hope that my Suggestion clear to understand it(my english is not very good!)
    thanks
    diramoh

  • Why buy System Center 2012 Operations Manager (how to convince my boss)

    Hello
    I need to put together a document to try and convince my boss to spend the time/money to move from SCOM 2007 R2 to SCOM 2012 R2.
    One of the areas I want to focus on is Cross Platform (Unix/Linux), Network Monitoring and APM
    Does any one know of any good documents/short videos showing the benefits of SCOM 2012 R2 which a view to selling the benefits to a line manager (also have a very sceptical Unix/Linux team).
    Perhaps someone else has already been through this loop, and has such a documents :)
    Thanks
    AAnotherUser__
    AAnotherUser__

    Hi AAnotherUser:
    Here is a recent video on managing SUSU Linux with SCOM 2012 R2:
    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+system+Center+operations+manager+Linux&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=video+system+center+operations+manager+linux&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=F6243978D517D71C1A74F6243978D517D71C1A74
    I can assure you this level of ease of monitoring applies to all supported Linux versions not such SUSE.
    This video focuses on the dashboarding features in SCOM, it might convey the value you are looking for:
    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?pq=video+value+of+system+center+operations+manager&sc=0-15&sp=-1&sk=&q=video+value+of+system+center+operations+manager&qft=+filterui:videoage-lt525600&FORM=R5VR8
    Here is an official white paper from Microsoft on the value of System Center 2012 R2:
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/2/7721670F-DEF0-40D3-9771-43146DED5132/System_Center_2012%20R2_Overview_White_Paper.pdf
    Good luck,
    John Joyner MVP-SC-CDM

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