September 2014 TechNet Guru SSAS Winners announced!
The September Guru results are posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/10/16/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-september-2014.aspx
Below are the highlights, just the medal winners. Please see the blog above for more entrants and comments, which had to be trimmed to fit into this 60,000 character forum limit.
BizTalk Technical Guru - September 2014
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: Working with Preserve Interchange EDI Xml – Part 1
Mandi Ohlinger: "This is a great How To article with the steps and terms clearly defined. If you want to preserve interchanges, you need to read this."
TGN: "EDI is a big part of BizTalk, great wrap up, both articles."
Verma.Sumit
BizTalk Server - Default Pipelines
TGN: "Very nice article explaining the default pipelines "in-depth"."
Mandi Ohlinger: "Great detailed information on the XML pipelines. Very informative read. "
Rahul_Madaan
BizTalk Server - Debatching multiple message types using Envelope Schema
Mandi Ohlinger: "A common task explained simply. Very effective."
TGN: "Very nice tutorial. I would love to see some better images though, and a little better elaboration on the different steps, but overall a very good article."
Exchange Server Technical Guru - September 2014
Rafael Mantovani
Exchange: Unable to Verify Information About Users Availability
Ed Price: "This is a good article with some good images. This article was originally in English, but because it was posted on the Portuguese Wiki, it got translated into Portuguese! The English version should be pasted
into a new article on the English Wiki. Here is the English version: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/26759.nao-e-possivel-verificar-informacoes-de-disponibilidade-dos-usuarios/revision/7.aspx "
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - September 2014
Eihab Isaac (MVP)
FIM 2010 R2: Coexistence Exchange Provisioning Scenario using PowerShell
Management Agent
AM: "Eihab, thank you for continuing to make excellent contributions to the community. This is a useful reference for anyone needing to meet similar requirements without the service and portal."
PG: "Nice article. Well designed!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great overview on real world challenges with managing diffrent Exchange versions using FIM. Second part wil really complement this article."
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - September 2014
Chervine
Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
JH: "Love it! One of my favorite articles on the wiki from last month."
Ed Price: "Fantastic article! Incredibly well written with good details and helpful images. This Machine Learning topic is very important and timely right now!"
Alex Mang
What Are Scoring Profiles In Azure Search?
JH: "Alex has done a tremendous job with his library. Love it that he shares update on the library on the wiki."
Ed Price: "Wow, I love all the explanations and detail. And this topic is incredibly valuable. Amazing job!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta : Connecting a Menu App to Azure Mobile Service
JH: "Great article with a lot of pictures. A good one!"
Ed Price: "Great topic, Sara! Very thorough and well written!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - September 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Enums in Powershell
Ed Price: "Wow, what a detailed article! Great depth and use of images! I think it's time for a PowerShell category!"
TGN: "I LOVE ENUMS! Great explaining and a great article. Well done, Brian!"
PG: "Nice, practical solution, clear explanation."
Adnan Umer
Understanding GPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4
Ed Price: " A fantastic Visual Studio article with great details and vivid images!"
TGN: "Very valuable and a great toturiol on how to use the "GPU Usage tool""
Britt Adams
Unexplained High CPU Usage on Intel E5 Processors
Ed Price: "Very thorough explanation! Great job! "
TGN: "Wow, computer science is fun. Nice wrap-up and how-to. I loved it!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - September 2014
Vivek Jagga
SharePoint, Office 365 or a Hybrid Deployment?
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice, I can see this one coming in real handy in comparison studies"
Inderjeet Singh
Common issue when using SharePoint 2013 Multi Tenant environment
(Apps and User Profile Synchronization)
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Useful and not too much is written about this topics, which adds some bonus points"
Dan Christian
Tips and Tricks to Resolve Poject 2010 Server Migration Issues
Margriet Bruggeman: "Extensive KB-type article in case you need it"
Small Basic Technical Guru - September 2014
Philip Munts
Small Basic: For Windows 8.1 Tablet
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great article for those (1) want to make apps for tablet form factors and (2) are looking to package a SB app into a package."
Ed Price: "I love it! What an important topic!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Emoji
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Another entry from Nonki which opens up new possibilities. This time Emoji and the font editing."
Ed Price: "This is incredibly interesting!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Dictionary
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Simple entry on a powerful feature"
Ed Price: "Great overview of the Dictionary Object! Good job integrating the Known Issues and the See Also section!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - September 2014
visakh16
Finding SSIS Packages having References to a Table or Column
RB: "Interesting subject, with a lot of practical usage"
Jinchun Chen: "Really helpful."
PT: "Good article that addresses a specific problem and offers a solution. Thank you"
Ch. Rajen Singh
SSIS: Export Multiple File With Fixed Size
PT: "This is a good article, well-written and solves a real problem."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
RB: "Interesting workaround for the fixed file size problem"
Ed Price - MSFT
Power BI Community Council
PT: "Great information about the purpose and composition of the Power BI Community Council to inform and raise awareness."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - September 2014
Shanky
An Examination of Logging in Truncate Table Statement
and Its Comparison With Delete Statement
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent"
AM: "The best!"
Ed Price: "Wow, Shanky! What an amazingly thorough and detailed article!"
Tulio Rosa
SQL Server Load Balancing
AM: "Also very good!"
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent"
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic, good job on the diagram, and great use of TechNet Gallery! Plus a Portuguese translation!"
Ashwin Menon
Get Notified when a database status changes
AM: "This is well explained"
Ed Price: "Very thorough article! Good References section!"
System Center Technical Guru - September 2014
Mr X
How to upload new Drivers in SCCM 2012 R2
Peter Laker: "Very nice, thanks Mr X"
Ed Price: "Wow. Great use of images to walk the reader through the process! Could benefit from a See Also and Additional Resources type of sections. Very thorough!"
Mr X
How to create a new Boot Image using SCCM 2012 R2
Peter Laker: "Another good article!"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet How To article! It's great to cover all these scenarios. Excellent addition to our System Center library of content!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - September 2014
visakh16
Full Outer Join - The Most Generic Join Statement
JS: "A good summary, though a bit generic and already available mutliple times on the internet. The sample (with data) could be a bit more crisp though."
Jinchun Chen: "Very helpful."
Ed Price: "I love the explanations at the top in the Context and Reasoning sections! And then the solution has a fantastic mix between explanations, illustrations, and the code snippets. And the links at the bottom help JOIN together
the Join resources! Great job!"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Dynamic pivot with column alias
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
JS: "Make sure no to use a parameter declaration without a size of the variable type, like in VARCHAR, better use Varchar(YourSizeHere)."
Ed Price: "Fantastic solution. Good job getting the references in there at the bottom!"
Saeid Hasani
Calling Stored Procedures Using Transact-SQL
JS: "A good write up for getting the feet wet with procedure, though missing some depth."
Ed Price: "Wow! I love your break out each section, explain it, and give the code snippet. It makes it very easy to read, understand, and get to the right section! To JS's point, it's probably better for beginners than advanced T-SQL
gurus, but this content is still very valuable. Great example of the community giving advice and helping out with the content. Incredible article!"
Visual C# Technical Guru - September 2014
João Sousa
ASP.NET WebAPI - Basic Redis
Peter Laker: "Nice WebAPI basics Joao!"
JM: "This is best"
Jaliya Udagedara
Publishing and Subscribing using NServiceBus
JM: "Close second IMO"
Peter Laker: "Great intro to NServiceBus! Thanks Jaliya!"
Adnan Umer
Calculating Percentage Similarity of two Strings in C#
JM: "I like this!"
Peter Laker: "Awesome snippet and explanation, thanks Adnan!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - September 2014
Adnan Umer
Introducing ObjectGraphLibrary to visualize Stack and Heap
JH: "Good article about stack and heap visualization."
TGN: "Hardcore stuff, but very valuable. Great article buddy!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta: Creating a BackOffice App for Menu App
JH: "Another great article by Sara! A lot of code snippets, pictures and explanations."
TGN: "Great tutorial, well explained. And a bunch of screenshots. I loved it!"
Muiz Khan
Using Speech Recognition without Internet
TGN: "Nice one. I love articles that explain something in an easy understanding way. Great work Muiz!"
JH: "Good explanation of offline capabilities of speech recognition."
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - September 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: CollectionView Tips
KJ: "wow cery thorough!"
Peter Laker: "Blindingly good article Andy!"
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Binding the DatePickerTextBox in WPF
KJ: "useful tip - could see needing to do this and searching for this article and finding it"
Peter Laker: "Excellent work as always Magnus!"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - September 2014
Durval Ramos
Visio Portal
Peter Laker: "Awe inspiring portal from a Wiki legend!"
Ed Price: "Great introduction, a lot of links, divided by sections, and it even has References and Return to Top links! Amazing article!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - September 2014
Mr X
Getting Started with KMS (Key Management Service)
JM: "Another excellent article, great work."
Philippe Levesque: "Really good documentation."
Richard Mueller: "Good topic with good images to explain."
Mark Parris: "Good insights, would be good to higlight also the improvements in 2012 and 2012 R2."
Kelly Bush
Authentication Policies and Authentication Silos – Restricting Domain Controller
Access
Mark Parris: "Nice article, providing further insight into some of 2012 R2's capabilities."
Richard Mueller: "Great article with lots of detail. Could use TOC and See Also section."
JM: "An excellent article, thanks for the contribution!"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article, it explain some security that we don't see much."
FZB
Windows Server: DNS Service - Negative Caching
Mark Parris: "useful tidbit, i have often seen shortttl zones for such records."
JM: "A good article, however it needs a rewrite for clarity."
Philippe Levesque: "Andy information to have, thanks for sharing !"
Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation."
Congratulations to everyone who won a medal and thank you to everyone who entered! Your success will be entered into folklore and sung about for generations to come!
If you can do better, or simply wish to join our community and make a name for yourself, please enter this month's competition:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26994.technet-guru-contributions-october-2014.aspx
Regards,
Pete
#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.
Hi Pete,
Thank you for your information. Congratulations to Visakh16, Ch.Rajen Singh and Ed Price-MSFT.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support
Similar Messages
-
March's TechNet Wiki SSAS 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 Michael:
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!"
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! -
SSAS 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!Congratulations to Visakh, Jan, and Anushka!
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."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Make a dynamic selection from SharePoint list data with the SSIS 2012 OData Source by
Jan D'Hondt
RB: "No pics showing, nice post though"
Ed Price: "Pretty good details. It's missing the images though. Good topic!"
Error occurred while the attribute of the dimension from the database
was being processed–snowflake dimension by
Jan D'Hondt
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good writeup. It could be improved with images and references. Good article!"
MR: "Clarify this behavior is only for Multidimensional models. Moreover, you can handle that by changing configuration settings in Multidimensional project"
RB: "More of a data problem than a workaround for SSAS"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
SQL Server 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.
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
How it works
#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 Shanky and Durval!
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!"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Visio 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.
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
How it works
#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.Thank you to Mr X!
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!"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Windows Server 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.
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
How it works
#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 and Hicham:
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."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Helpdesk, System Administrators, and Powershell… How to get started by
SeanSobey
GL: "Good collection of links. I would like to see a little more about how PS is different from VB, batch, WMI. Maybe share some personal experiences you had getting started."
Richard Mueller: "Good collection of useful command. Needs a See Also section."
GO: "Not formatted, is not attractive, so for me the last one."
JM: "This is a nice Learning Roadmap-style article to help folks get started with Windows PowerShell"
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 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.
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
How it works
#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 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!"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
TN Wiki 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.
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
How it works
#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 XAML guy (Pete), Durval, and Joao!
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!"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Azure 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.
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
How it works
#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! Also, the runner ups did a great job!
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!"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Configure a custom domain name for a web site - Windows Azure (Godaddy) by
Saad Mahmood
Ed Price: "Great details!"
GO: "Well written.. Thanks for your help and article for the community"
JH: "A very relevant topic. Would love to see more articles related to other hosting providers."
Azure storage block blob upload from Android by
Isham Mohamed
JH: "Good explanation of block blobs. Unfortunately the biggest part is a code snippet provided by Microsoft. It would be great to have a real-world implementation a reader can use directly."
Ed Price: "Good topic and commenting in the code! But a lot of this article is from other sources."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Power Pivot 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!Congratulations to Visakh, Jan, and Anushka!
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."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Make a dynamic selection from SharePoint list data with the SSIS 2012 OData Source by
Jan D'Hondt
RB: "No pics showing, nice post though"
Ed Price: "Pretty good details. It's missing the images though. Good topic!"
Error occurred while the attribute of the dimension from the database
was being processed–snowflake dimension by
Jan D'Hondt
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good writeup. It could be improved with images and references. Good article!"
MR: "Clarify this behavior is only for Multidimensional models. Moreover, you can handle that by changing configuration settings in Multidimensional project"
RB: "More of a data problem than a workaround for SSAS"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Microsoft TechNet Wiki SSAS Guru - Winners for November!!
The results for November's
TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
Sorry for the delay copying over to the forums, busy times indeed!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/12/16/technet-guru-awards-november-2013.aspx
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for November!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your DECEMBER contributions here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/21343.technet-guru-contributions-for-december.aspx
Read all about December's competition in the stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for November. 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 - November 2013
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services EAI Bridges – Diagnostics
Mandi Ohlinger: "Anyone and everyone who's using BizTalk Services needs this topic. Well done!"
TGN: "WABS, I LOVE YOU! and I love this article! well described and a bunch of good images to help the explaination! Great work Steef-Jan!"
Ed Price: "I love the large and thorough Introduction section!"
Suleiman Shakhtour
BizTalk Server: How to Extract Email Attachments By Pipeline
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great solution to a common problem. We need more of these. Thank you for the source code links!"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic topic! Thanks for this great contribution!"
Tomasso Groenendijk
How to use Business Rules in the ESB Toolkit and test them with the BRE TestTool
Ed Price: "Great use of images to clearly express each step. Congratulations Tomasso, in winning your first Guru medal!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2013
Brandon Atkinson
Use the XML Viewer Web Part, HTML, and JavaScript to Build Custom Web Parts
TVG: "No full-trust solutions, brilliant. But make sure that the injected JavaScript never impacts the functionalities on the page."
GO: "Excellent article! The GOLD medal winner for me! This article is well written with small images and a very fluent english. You'll read and understand every word. Technical but for each level. An excellent resource for the SharePoint
Community! Thanks Brandon! "
Craig Lussier: "Fantastic article. Superb walk through with commentary, images and code. Well done!"
Matthew Yarlett
A Complete Guide to Getting and Setting Fields using PowerShell
Jinchun Chen: "It is really a good article for getting start on using field in PowerShell."
Craig Lussier: "Excellent reference with high reuse value. Great work Matthew!"
GO: "Powershell, Powershell and again Powershell. The message here is clear. Everything is possible with Powershell. This article deserves absolutly a medal."
TVG: "Excellent! I would create a PowerShell command library so that I can simply download this script from this page and reuse it directly with the correct parameters.."
Benoit Jester - MTFC
SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
TVG: "Very interesting!"
Ed Price: "Benoit does a great job telling the story through images. It was an incredibly competitive month for SharePoint. We also need to mention Steven Andrews' amazing Deep Zoom Image article."
Craig Lussier: "Highly detailed and insightful walk through of this new SharePoint 2013 search feature. Great article!"
GO: "Again a great article from Benoit. Well Done!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
litdev
Dynamic Graphics
Ed Price: "Incredibly detailed. A fantastic resource to keep coming back to! From the comments: "Wanted to say WOW - this is great!" and "Awesome. Thanks""
Nonki Takahashi
How to Make a Check Box
Ed Price: "Well formatted and in-depth how-to article! Great job!"
Joe Dwyer
Why Small Basic is a great programming language for beginners
Ed Price: "A well-articulated value statement for Small Basic! Thanks, Joe!"
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2013
Naomi N
T-SQL: Create Report for Last 10 Years of Data
Richard Mueller: "Excellent article solving a common problem."
Ed Price: "Good details in the Solutions section!"
Samuel Lester: "Handy code and very slick solution!"
Ronen Ariely
Random String
Samuel Lester: "Great comparison and VERY useful information in the application testing space as you mentioned."
Ed Price: "Great detail and depth!"
Richard Mueller: "I disagree with several statements in the article. For example GUID values will be random."
Saeid Hasani
Simplified CASE expression
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and detailed explanations. Great job taking Carsten's advice (in the comments) and giving it good code formatting. It helps a lot!"
Samuel Lester: "Extremely thorough and a great read! Good addition!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2013
Reed Kimble
Generate Color Sequences using a RGB Color Cube in VB.Net
Richard Mueller: "I love the color cube. Very well explained."
MR: "Great article and well written."
SB: "Article has narrative and text and shows concept well"
Ed Price: "Once again, Reed delivers an astonishingly thorough article that's easy to read and understand. Great topic!"
.paul.
Shapes - Areas + Volumes
SB: "This had narrative, code and practical usage for beginners to VB. THis would get people going quickly using VB and I can see it being useful for beginners to VB."
Ed Price: ".paul. earns his first Gold Guru medal! The code could be formatted better, but as SB mentions, this is very informative and the perfect article for a new coder! Could benefit from a TOC and headers."
Richard Mueller: "Good explanation. I would like to have seen the missing classes without downloading the source code."
MR: "Good example of OOP. Maybe include a GetArea returning a Double as well?"
Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2013
Jaliya Udagedara
Thread.Sleep vs. Task.Delay
NN: "Short and swift and very informative article. I like all articles by Jaliya and this is no exception"
Ed Price: "Great formatting with thorough explanations!"
Deeptendra
Difference between Static Class, Sealed Class and Abstract Class in C#
NN: "This article explains some basic C# concepts, but it will be much better if it would provide examples"
Ed Price: "Good comparison for starters, but it could go deeper on each class."
Muralidharan Deenathayalan
Learn about Class,Object and Constructors
NN: "Good and simple article that is helpful for C# beginners"
Ed Price: "As NN mentions above, this is a good article for new coders. As Carsten mentions in the comments, it would benefit from better code formatting."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - November 2013
mcosmin
Various Media Objects for Windows Phone and Their Roles
RC: "A few interesting additions to the Media for
Windows Phone docs. For completeness it should also address how Media Foundation fits in. Also please update the MediaElement link to point at Windows Phone docs rather than Silverlight."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the classes! This article could benefit from a TOC."
AN: A good article, and useful subject!
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2013
dev hedgehog
Custom Tree Virtualizing Panel
Ed Price: "The introduction sets expectations very well, and then the sections are divided very clearly. Great code formatting. Per the comments, thanks for adding the TOC!"
Peter Laker: "Love this tip. Great contribution hedgehog!"
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Programmatically Selecting and Focusing a Row or Cell in a DataGrid
Peter Laker: "Great subject, very informative, lots of explanation."
Ed Price: "Very thorough and well formatted!"
Ayyappan
WPF Treeview Using Self Reference Table and Entity Framework
Peter Laker: "Great article, great walk through and nice presentation."
Ed Price: "Great topic! It would benefit from a TOC and Headers. Some great TreeView articles this month!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - November 2013
Uwe Ricken
When Foreign Keys will conflict with FILLFACTOR
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! I love it."
NN: "Great article, very comprehensive. Few drawbacks - it doesn't explain in details what the correct solution should be. Also, the code samples to the article include line numbers which make them harder to copy"
Ed Price: "As Saeid in the comments wrote, "I love this article. This article defines the quality!" Between the explanations, code, comments, and diagram, the story is told well."
Samuel Lester: "Outstanding explanation, format, and write-up! Superb again Uwe!"
DB: "Very interesting both in content and technique. "
DRC: "Very nice article, well documented with sample script and sample output. If we add the references to few of the topics discussed, would be helpful to understand the concept better so that the reader will get the complete picture
of the blog talks about. Definitely a TechNet WIKI article. "
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server: Create Random String Using CLR
NN: "This article can not be read by its own without reading the article it refers to. The code is not explained, the process of creating CLR function is also not explained. So, it is not clear how this
C# code is used in SQL Server at all"
Ed Price: "This could benefit from much more explanation. "
Samuel Lester: "Very good article and a great in-depth break-out that compliments your broader random string tech-net Wiki article. Great read!"
DRC: "It would have been better if the code would also provide the below details: 1. How to load the dll generated in SQL Server memory 2. Sample T SQL script to use the function and a sample output for the same. "
Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2013
Mr X
How to protect your Active Directory from RID Pool Depletion
GL: "Good background and procedures."
JH: "great diagram, great topic. well written"
Richard Mueller: "Great information that could prevent a disaster."
JM: "Very good article"
Mr X
How to extend the Delegation of Control Wizard templates in Active
Directory Users and Computers
Richard Mueller: "Very valuable information. Needs a TOC. The tables and images help a lot."
GL: "Good detail in this article. I'd like to see a use case added."
JH: "very useful, nicely illustrated"
JM: "Very good article, but it would be good to improve readability by fixing minor errors in grammar (missing articles, pluralization sometimes incorrect)"
Mr X
Delegate moving user, group and computer accounts between Organizational
Units in Active Directory
JM: "This is an excellent article and I'm sure a lot of Admins will find it very helpful."
JH: "good topic, well organized table, easy to read"
Ed Price: "Great table and good use of cross-linking to related Wiki articles!"
Richard Mueller: "A great table and great references."
GL: "Good article."
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 announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to 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 Johnsom, Tim, and Michael!
SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - November 2013
johnsom
How to add JPEG and PNG report export when SSRS 2012 is integrated with SP 2013
Jinchun Chen: "Good sharing."
Ed Price: "Although this article could benefit from improved formatting, formatting on the code, and an image... the clarity and quality of the topic are what earns this article a prominent placing. Johnsom earns his first medal!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS: Converting Between Tablix Controls (Matrix, Table List)
Ed Price: "Tim proves consistency with another fantastic article that is very thorough! We have a strong showing from SSRS in the BI category for November!"
Michael Amadi
Calculating the % difference between the same measure evaluated in two
user selected contexts
Ed Price: "Michael earns his first Guru medal and gives us a Power Pivot article for BI! Great use of images and code!"
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! -
March'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! -
March's TechNet Wiki TN Wiki 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 Matthew, Durval, and Mr X:
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."
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! -
April's TechNet Wiki Azure 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.Well, we didn't have any Azure Gurus for March. It's a new category for April!
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!
Maybe you are looking for
-
ALv to excel download problems
HI friends, Probelm I'm facing while saving an ALV report to Excel Sheet by clicking on the 'Save as File Icon' button on the ALV output.=0D Here data is going into a new Line after 65 columns.I've used Function Module 'RSAQ_ALV'.This function module
-
How do you check multiple apps at the same time in itunes?
for syncing to the iphone...how can I check more than one app at a time...but not all of them. I can highlight them, but it doesn't check them.
-
I get this message: "Client host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname. [17.110.78.42]". The recipient domain is ptd.net and this is coming from an iCloud account. PTD refused to help. Is this an Apple problem? When can this be fixed? I have an
-
[SOLVED]Installing it87 driver for lm_sensors support
Hello, I've done much research on how to properly install an update it87 driver that could make 0x8620 work. I ran sensors-detect and ran into this: # sensors-detect revision 6209 (2014-01-14 22:51:58 +0100) # System: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z9
-
Permanently Widen Finder View Column Width
I am familiar with the method to get a full/wider view of a Finder column when I'm there, but the column width goes back to its original width when the Finder is closed. Any way that anyone knows to set and maintain a wide column view after closing F