TechNet Wiki - Best Practice Blog Posts
Lately, we've had some great blog posts about best practices on TechNet Wiki. So we're going to share them with you here...
Wiki
Life: Commenting on Comments... Care to Comment?- 10/16/14 by Ed Price
How
to write a great post on the Wiki - For Dummies - 10/12/14 by Gokan Ozcifci
Wednesday
- Wiki Life: The Importance of Longer, High-Quality Articles - 10/8/14 by Ed Price
Wednesday
- Wiki Life: 10 ways to become the most hated Wiki ninja on the planet - 10/1/14 by Peter Geelen
Wiki Life:
PowerShell PowerPack! - 9/17/14 by Matthew Yarlett
The
most unseen and unspoken TechNet Wiki roles: The mentor Role - 6/22/14 by Sandro Periera
Wiki Life: Smart Tags -
6/18/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life:
Ownership and Credibility - 6/11/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki
Life: Best Practices for building TechNet Wiki Portals - 6/4/14 by Horizon Net
Wiki
life: Technet Wiki tagging, the ugly truth. - 5/29/14 by Peter Geelen
Wiki Life:
Getting too Personal! - 5/14/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life:
YOU edited MY article??! - 4/30/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki
Life: Are you right in making it a rite to write? - 4/16/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life - Alerts -
4/9/14 by Alan Carlos
Wiki
Life: Speling an gamma, it is umpotant? - 4/2/14 - by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki
Life: How to Translate TechNet Wiki Articles - 4/2/14 by Horizon Net
Wiki Life:
Attention to Detail - 3/19/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wednesday - Wiki Life - Mobility - 3/12/14 by Alan Carlos
Wiki
Life: A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words - 3/5/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life: Cut'N'Paste -
2/19/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life: How to Join Leadership - 2/19/14 by Horizon Net
Wiki Life: Featured Articles in the TechNet Wiki - 2/12/14 by Durval Ramos
Wiki Life: Code.Format() -
2/5/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life: The CodePlex Corner - 2/5/14 by Horizon Net
Did you know that we have a layout article? - 1/29/14 by Durval Ramos
Wiki
Life: Get to the point, keep it short! - 1/22/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life:
Planning a Great Article - 1/8/14 by Matthew Yarlett
Wiki Life: Best Practices for converting an MSDN / TechNet Forum thread into a Wiki Article!!!
- 12/25/13 by Ed Price
Wiki Life: Best Practices for Giving Credit - 12/18/13 by Horizon Net
Wiki Life: How To Fix a Wiki Article TOC - 12/4/13 by Benoit Jester
Wiki Life: How To Detect Missing Tags Without any Effort - 11/20/13 by Benoit Jester
Wiki Life: How To Import an Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Into a Wiki Article - 10/30/13 by
Markus Vilcinskas
Wiki Life: Cross Linking - 10/9/13 by Horizon Net
Wiki Life: User Groups Portal - 10/2/13 by Horizon Net
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
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Create a wiki article about it!
Respected sensei Wiki Ninja,
what else do you need to start a Wiki article?
Put you signature in practice!
So I kindly invite you all to continue your braindump over here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/27905.technet-wiki-best-practices-blog-posts-articles.aspx
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Best Practice on Post Steps after 11.2.0.2.4 ORACLE RAC installation
I finished RAC 11.2.0.2 installation and patched it to 11.2.0.2.4. The database is also created.
The nodes are Linux redhat and storages are on ASM.
Is there any good article or link regarding the best practice of post steps after installation?
Thanks in advance.Hi,
I also want to know what kind of monitoring scripts I can use to setup as cron jobs to monitor or detect any failure or problems?
To monitor Cluster (OS Level):
I suggest you use a powerful tool "CHM" that already comes with product Grid Infrastructure.
What do you do to configure? Nothing ... Just use.
Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) FAQ [ID 1328466.1]
See this example:
http://levipereira.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/monitoring-the-cluster-in-real-time-with-chm-cluster-health-monitor/
To monitor Database:
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The purpose of this article is to illustrate how to use the new 10g manageability features to diagnose
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Hope this help,
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Best practices for posting video to my iWeb site?
What's the best way to upload movies to my site so that visitors can watch them while sacrificing the least amount of quality, size and speed?
As an example, the iPhone commercials on the Apple webpage start playing instantly, look great and when Large is selected are the perfect size.
But I made a 1.5 minute iSight video on iMovie and saved it as a streaming quicktime file and it takes about 10 minutes to fully load once it's on my site. And I have a 10 mpbs internet connection.
I also just pulled up a large movie trailer on iTunes and it looks great and started playing instantly.
Is there a better way for posting video? Perhaps in flash or another codec that would make more sense? Videos on youTube play instantly, although the quality isn't always great.
thanks!
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)There is no absolute correct way. One way is shown in this demo page. It lets the page load without having the movie load thus speeding up the page load a fair amount. The movie only has to load when the Play button is clicked on and then it opens in a separate window sized just for the movie. The code used is also shown on the page. This way can allow you to use a larger QT file and not affect the loading of the original page it's linked to.
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Best Practice Reuse - Post Processing
I have a Query Canvas that I would like to use over and over again in my different form modules. I created an object group and put the group into the object library. All of the code is located in program units.
I want some "post" processing done which differs depending on which form I am reusing it on. I first created a post_query procedure and called it as a hook, but when I use it on a form, it gets overwritten as I update the reusable object group.
I then thought I would just call my post processing after I called the query procedure, but the "post" code is executing BEFORE query code executes - which I am completely confused as to why.
So my basic question is, how do you add "hooks" or pre and post procedures to your reusable code and prevent that code from being overwritten as you update your objects?Hi,
I also want to know what kind of monitoring scripts I can use to setup as cron jobs to monitor or detect any failure or problems?
To monitor Cluster (OS Level):
I suggest you use a powerful tool "CHM" that already comes with product Grid Infrastructure.
What do you do to configure? Nothing ... Just use.
Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) FAQ [ID 1328466.1]
See this example:
http://levipereira.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/monitoring-the-cluster-in-real-time-with-chm-cluster-health-monitor/
To monitor Database:
PERFORMANCE TUNING USING ADVISORS AND MANAGEABILITY FEATURES: AWR, ASH, and ADDM and Sql Tuning Advisor. [ID 276103.1]
The purpose of this article is to illustrate how to use the new 10g manageability features to diagnose
and resolve performance problems in the Oracle Database.
Oracle10g has powerful tools to help the DBA identify and resolve performance issues
without the hassle of analyzing complex statistical data and extensive reports.
Hope this help,
Levi Pereira
Edited by: Levi Pereira on Nov 3, 2011 11:40 PM -
Best practice for invoice posting inSRM
Dear expert,
what is the best practice for posting an invoice? Is it in SRM system or MM system? In SRM, the system allows one to use approval procedure for invoice posting; wheras in MM, one cannot use the apporval procedure to post an invoice. similar is the case, in SRM-SUS and MM-SUS scenario?
I would appreciate if you can feedback on the industry practice.
thanks and regards,
RanjanRanjan,
As a SAP customer we use invoice entry in ERP using MIRO and FB60 as these are the most efficient for our busines.
1. Invoice entry using MIRO tcode is faster as it can be done with minimal use of the mouse. Invoice entry is slower in SRM as browser response and interactions with the backed ERP system slows the systems reponse to the user input. Repeated use of a mouse in the SRM browser is detrimental to fast input.
2. Not all types of invoices can be handled in SRM e.g. Invoice without PO.
3. We process approx 20,000 invoices per month with multiple input operators, SRM could not handle that sort of load.
4. SRM is really a procurement application and although invoice entry is included it is probably more for users who wish to use SRM in a stand alone scenario. We use extended classic so all our financial transactions take place in the ERP backend.
Your choice also depends upon the number and quality of the invoices you plan to process, and the need for the operators to be trained on one or two systems.
Hope these personal observations assist with your decision
Regards
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Wiki blog best practice for teachers
I am running Web services on a 10.5.8 server with wiki, blog, and calendar features enabled for a particular group.
What is the best practice for allowing a teacher to post assignments, media, etc., to his/her page while also allowing students to submit assignments (in video form) up on that page - BUT not allow them to edit the part the teacher has entered? It sounds like it should be a blog “comment”, but that does not allow them to upload files. I see there is the capability to “allow some group” members to write to this page – but how do I select which users (does not take me to a user selection option) - not sure that this is indeed what I am looking for anyway. If I allow all members to edit the page (wiki), there is little control for the page owner (teacher) to reduce student error, sabotage, or intentional goofiness.
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About posting TechNet Wiki articles
Hello,
I already write some articles on my personal blogs (italian and english).
Is it needed that a TechNet Wiki article is original and it doesn't exist on another web site ?
Can I publish on TechNet Wiki an article I already published on my blogs ?
Thanks,
Paolo.
Paolo PatiernoYes, you can post your own content! That's great! And if it's in any of the TechNet Guru categories, you can also enter those competitions and get more views on your articles!
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22885.technet-guru-contributions-for-february.aspx
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We are evaluating the use of iPod touch devices to record best practice videos on our manufacturing floor and to post to an internal Moodle web site. How can you upload a video from the iPod touch to a site other than YouTube? The Moodle upload interface is expecting a file selection dialog box like windows or OSX. I do not want to have to go through an intermediary step of messing with a pc.
Thanks!It should be around 7 and a half gigs. In iTunes, across the bottom there should be a bar that show how much storage is being used and by what. (music, movies, apps, etc.) To make music take up less room, you can check the box to make it convert the music to 128kbps AAC. This lowers the quality, but with most earbuds and speakers, you can't even tell the difference.
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What is the best practice to set Captivate variables from Get (less ideal) and Post (more ideal)?
We are trying to set a couple of variables in Captivate 7 by posting the information from a URL. Is there a best practice for doing this, or does it require a custom JS or other call in order to do this?
Essentially, we want to pass three variables from a URl to named variables in a Captivate 7 swf so that the information can be drawn from a database, and does not need to be entered by the user.
Suggestions, thoughts, pointers to where we may be able to find this information - all would be greatly appreciated!Not sure how Captivate treats FlashVars internally, but the native html template includes a script to read URL parameters:
var strURLFull = window.document.location.toString();
var intTemp = strURLFull.indexOf("?");
var strURLParams = "";
then:
if(strURLParams != "")
so.addVariable("flashvars",strURLParams);
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Simple HTTP Post Handler - Best Practice?
I would like to create a fairly simple ASP.Net application that takes an XML record from an HTTP post request, submits it to a process that invokes a command line app that parses the XML file, takes the parsed XML file (as XML), and returns the result.
For now the process can be synchronous as the transform has to complete and there are no parallel activities that need to be performed.
I'm not sure that writing an HTTP Handler is the way to go, but maybe I'm mistaken. Plus there are no examples of doing that in Visual Studio 2013 using IIS 8.0 or 8.5 and I don't really understand the value of applying a file extension or processing
an HTTP post to initiate the request, perhaps using a dedicated port. I already have a class library for handling the process request.
I'm also a little confused about reading the post request - it seems I can just do it during the page load and that I should be able to extract the first request form field - that of course means using a webform to process the request which seems to be the
most straight-forward way to do this. So I'm looking for the best practice for fielding this kind of request. My target server is Windows 2012, but I'm developing with VS 2013 and C# on Windows 7 using IIS Express and configuring IIS is confusing.
Overall it is a fairly simple app, but there are so many rich new features in VS 2013 (most of my work has been in VS 2005). I also want to build a test app and am looking for the best way to do so, although I think I can build a simple client app
to do that. The business requirements will be to issue the post request from a MarkLogic xquery request which will take care of any JSON wrappers and balance between multiple Windows servers to handle the load.
Thanks for any help with this!
~TimHi Tim,
Thank you for posting in the MSDN forum.
Actually this forum is to discuss the VS IDE, if this issue is related to web development, you could ask this question in the ASP.NET forum:
http://forums.asp.net. If then, you could get an answer more quickly and professional. Thanks for your cooperation.
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Could scenario 161 of SAP best practice help to generate aut. posting?
Dear All,
We need to generate automatic postings for Sales costs, admin costs in FI. This sums we have on our cost centers groups accordingly.
Could scenario 161 of SAP best practice help us?
Best regards,
KamilaBe in the monitor window where u got the below issue
when I start the "schedule process" the status getting still "yellow 14:27: 31(194 from 0 records)"
and go to environment in the menu options TransactRFC--->in the sourcesystem...
give the logon details and enter and from there give the correct target destination as ur BI server and execute...
if u find some idoc's pending there push that manually using F6..
and come back to ur load and refresh....
if still it doen't turn green u can manully change status to red in STATUS tab and come to processing tab and expand ur processing details and right click on ur data packet which was not yet updated and select manual update...
it shows busy status and when it comes out of that once again refresh...
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Microsoft TechNet Wiki BizTalk 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
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Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.Congrats to Steef-Jan, Suleiman, and Tomasso!
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!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
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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)
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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."
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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!"
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