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April fools out of the way, now let's find an April genius!
The name "April" is derived from the Latin verb "aperire", meaning "to open" in reference to being the season when trees & flowers start to "open".
And I have to say, judging from the quality of contributions in recent months, I can't wait to OPEN and read this month's community gold!
Things are hotting up in TechNet, and the Wiki has become a shining example of what the community has to offer.
If you can find the time to enrich us with your latest revelations, or some fascinating facts, then not only will you build up a profile and name for yourself within the gaze of Microsoft's very own glitterati, but you will be adding pages to the most respected
source for Microsoft knowledge base articles. This could not only boost your career, but would benefit generations to come!
So don't be an April fool. Please realise the potential of this platform, realise where we are going, and join us in growing this community, learning more about you, and opening the minds of others!
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something
you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to
TechNet Wiki.
2) Add a link to it on
THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
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We're up to 7 articles:
Detailed Concepts: Lingering Objects
in Active Directory and How To's? by Mahdi
Tehrani
Art Of Manipulation : Add custome attributes
to Active Directory search function by Mahdi Tehrani
Step by Step : Migrate
local user profile to domain user profile with all settings by Mahdi Tehrani
Active Directory Back to Basics : Password policies by Denis
Cooper
Active Directory Back to Basics : Sysvol by Denis
Cooper
Active Directory Back to Basics : The Schema by Denis
Cooper
Active Directory Back to Basics : FSMO Roles by Denis
Cooper
And 3 more days left!
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Dears in Microsoft,
We need to have Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 64bit to be installed and due to the fact it is no more available in Microsoft.
I am going to order Windows 2012 with 16 CAL in order to downgrade it to Windows 2008 Standard SP2 64bit. My question is:
1. Which version of Windows Server 2012 needs to be ordered so that I can downgrade to Windows Server 2008 64bit Standard SP2?
2. what else required in terms of product key, media, license...etc?
Appreciate your kind supports.
thanks and best regards
Barznj AbdullahAny licensing questions are always best addressed by a trained Microsoft licensing specialist. You can find whom to call by looking at www.microsoft.com/licensing.
One of the built-in rights of a Windows Server license is the right to run earlier versions of the operating system. So if you purchase either Standard or Datacenter, you can run 2008 Standard.
However, that does not provide the media or activation codes for earlier versions of the operating sytem. You have to obtain those via other channels. You should most likely contact a Microsoft reseller and talk to them. They will
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March's TechNet Wiki Windows Server 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
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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 Mahdi:
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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Windows Server 2012 not applying gpupdate why?
Hello, i am doing group policys on windows server 2012 with windows 7 clients and some of the gp's are not updateing on the clients i am doing gpupdate /force on them but that makes no difference can someone tell me whats wrong. here is some pics
Is the GPO applied for authentificated users? yes they are.
what does gpresult /r say?
image 1:
http://tinypic.com/r/2njy7ap/6
image 2:
http://tinypic.com/r/2qva8mc/6
some more images at random
http://tinypic.com/r/pxi6v/6
http://tinypic.com/r/1zokpk5/6
could you do a
gpresult /H whatever.htm
i did a gpupdate before heres the pic
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/87903671/screen.bmp
and then i did the gpresult heres the website
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/87903671/whatever.htm
now can someone tell me whats wrong?could you please run rsop.msc on client end and post the result
Darshana Jayathilake -
Become our FIRST Microsoft TechNet Windows Server Guru of 2014!!
Happy New Year!
Time for a fresh start!
We're looking for the first Gurus of 2014!!
This is your chance to make your mark on the Microsoft developer community.
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something
you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to
TechNet Wiki.
2) Add a link to it on
THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
Feel free to ask any questions below.
More about TechNet Guru Awards
Thanks in advance!
Pete Laker
#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
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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.Up to 12 articles and 3 days to go!
AdminSDHolder, protected groups and Security propagator
by Mr X
How
to deactivate Schema Objects in Active Directory by Mr
X
How to get the list of deactivated Schema Objects in Active Directory using Powershell by Mr
X
10 Common Problems Causing Group Policy To Not Apply by
Joseph Moody
Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands - Server by Santhosh
Sivarajan
Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands
- Active Directory by Santhosh
Sivarajan
How to get the number of computers per Windows Operating System
in an Active Directory domain using Powershell by Mr
X
Building Your First Domain Controller On Windows 2012R2 by
Brad Held
Active Directory: Ambiguous Name Resolution by
Richard Mueller
Implementing Dynamic Access Control 2012R2 by
Brad Held
Migrating from a 2003 DC,DHCP to 2012R2 by
Brad Held
Disadvantages in Hyper-V snapshotting by Mr
X
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A New Year, a New Challenge! Become the FIRST Windows Server Guru of 2015!
Happy New Year!
"Guru 2014" is so 'last year'!
The real glory is to be the first Guru of 2015! :D
The birth of a new year, and a new hero?
Or the stamp of authority from long established Guru leaders?
The challenge is on, all eyes are watching, anyone could win this month.
The prize? Glory! Honor! Virtual medals! Unashamed love and worship from those within the community and those bloging about it (article spotlights,
weekly awards).
Published interviews and the chance to climb the TechNet social ladder. Become a true TNWiki Ninja and
advance through to black belt... and beyond!
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something
you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to
TechNet Wiki.
2) Add a link to it on
THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
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Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
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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!Maybe someone could fix the HTML editor?
I wasted a day attempting to fix the article I wanted to post and then after a "Microsoft.com is not responding..." lost the rest of the article and the massive amount of manual HTML editing to make (half of it) presentable. It apparently
was saved. So why were those changes not materialized in a "revision"?
- IE 11 on Windows 7
- plain text from Notepad
How can that be so difficult?
I'll simply post elsewhere. I don't have that kind of time to waste.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/29692.configuring-a-simple-ipv6-only-active-directory-network-on-windows-2012-r2.aspx
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Brighten up our day! Become a shining September Windows Server Guru!
As we in the Northern hemisphere watch the leaves turn brown, and the days grow shorter once more, we mourn the onset of darkness and cold. Winter is coming, and it may be a long one! (heard that somewhere before...)
SO my mighty guru word warriors, light up our hearts and minds with words of wisdom!
Send white hot ideas, spark off imaginations, light the way to a better future!
Let your intellectual outpourings enlighten your readers and lighten their burden, and quench their thirst for knowledge!
Beat back the darkness with laser sharp wit and broad spectrum facts.
Light a fire in our imaginations!
Become a beacon for awesomeness!
Shine so brightly as to become stars, and you shall be worshiped by us, as we bask in your technical glory!
Your time has come!
That time is NOW!
All you have to do is add an article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialist field. Something that fits into one of the categories listed on the submissions page. Copy in your own blog posts, a forum solution, a white paper, or just something
you had to solve for your own day's work today.
Drop us some nifty knowledge, or superb snippets, and become MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH!
This is an official Microsoft TechNet recognition, where people such as yourselves can truly get noticed!
HOW TO WIN
1) Please copy over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to
TechNet Wiki.
2) Add a link to it on
THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
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#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
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Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.I just posted the following. I hope it qualifies! :-)
After Delegating Permissions for an Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), Create a Custom MMC or Custom RSAT
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26536.after-delegating-permissions-for-an-organizational-unit-ou-in-active-directory-users-and-computers-aduc-create-a-custom-mmc-or-custom-rsat.aspx
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Windows Server within Win7 Pro using Virtual PC
I downloaded Windows Virtual PC 2007 and windows server 2008 r2 from dreamspark. Can i run windows server 2008 r2 from within windows 7 professional using Virtual PC 2007?
Yes, you can.
See the instrcutions here http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060527175405403
But be aware that the newer Macs (the 2011 released Macs) no longer support XP or Vista with BootCamp.
Only Windows 7 is supported on these Macs by Apple.
Stefan -
Hi
I have windows server 2012 which is my domain controller. It has 2 hyper visor virtual machine that they are 2012 too. I have an additional domain controller in another location too.
I want to know, how can I restore a bare metal or system state backup to another machine, to have a domain controller same as old one whit all the properties, rules and features.
ThanksHi Mehdi,
Yes, it is possible to restore Windows backup to a different machine with different hardware. This article, although written for Windows Server 2008 still applies in 2012:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/249694
Best regards,
Please remember to mark the replies as helpful if they help, or as answers if they answer your question. Please also unmark the answers if they provide no help.
Zach Roberts
Independent Microsoft Community Support Advisor
Disclaimer: I don't work for Microsoft. Any advice given is my own and does not represent Microsoft.
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@WindowsZach -
Firefox Settings for users in a Windows Server 2008/Win 7 Environment
I am currently building images of Windows 7 with Firefox 4 for use on our machines. We use Windows Server 2008 to apply user settings. I am looking for a way that I can provide bookmarks, change some of the default settings, and remove the start-up splash screens for Firefox. It turns out that each time a unique user logs into a computer, they have to walk through these splash screens, and the settings revert back to defaults, and the bookmarks are gone. We have several thousand users on our network, so any help fixing this issue would be appreciated.
Generally it is the browser service that populates network neighborhood. This technology is no longer used with newer OS like server 2008, windows 7/8.
Description of the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. -
Hi Microsoft Team,
We need your urgent advice and that is also on priority:
Issue Description: We need to migrate from
WINDOW SERVER 2003 to WINDOW SERVER 2012 while the development activity will be carried
under WINDOW SERVER 2008 as DEVELOPMENT BOX.
.NET Framework Version: 3.5 ( For both DEVLOPMENT(WINDOW SERVER 2008) and WEBSERVER(to WINDOW SERVER 2012))
IIS Version: 7.5 (For both DEVLOPMENT(WINDOW SERVER 2008) and WEBSERVER(to WINDOW SERVER 2012))
Need your quick advice Is that configuration feasible for Development and
Deployment (Web Server).
Highly appreciate your response as this will depend which product we need to buy also if you feel any showstopper or concern. Please let us know.Hi,
As suggested by Tim, in order to get better assistance, we can ask for help in the following IIS forum.
IIS Forum
http://forums.iis.net/
In addition, regarding migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012, the following blog can be referred to for more information.
Step-By-Step: Active Directory Migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2013/05/27/step-by-step-active-directory-migration-from-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2012.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen -
Windows Server 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."
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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
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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."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
March 2015 TechNet Guru Awards! See who's boss in Windows Server! It could be YOU!
The results for March's
TechNet Guru competition were posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however
the full version is available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting an orchestration with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Really nice article, I love it, nice use of the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. And once again, the article well detailed and excellent formated in terms of images and text format. Good work Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth in the Introduction, Scenario, and Wrap Up!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
View BizTalk Send Port Subcriptions
Sandro Pereira: "Really useful script! Good job Steef-Jan."
Ed Price: "Good context setting in the introduction (the image helps a lot)!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2015
Tracy Yu-MSFT
The Ultimate Tools to work ith RCDC in FIM
Søren Granfeldt: "Very nice and a great help for all of us struggling with RCDC's"
AM: "Thanks for posting Tracy! RCDCs can be very frustrating to troubleshoot."
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Protect passwords in configuration files
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice technical explanation and good approach"
AM: "Far too many FIM environments I find plain text passwords stored in scripts - great contribution.
Another helpful resource"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2015
saramgsilva
Avoid Nightmares Using EF First Migration in Azure Mobile Services
JH: "Another nice one from Sara. Definitely worth a look."
Ed Price: "I love the use of embedded links to the related library articles! And the article is rich with descriptions, well-formatted code with great commenting, and clarifying images. Plus a link to the source code. Fantastic job on
this!"
Alan Carlos: "Great! Very detailed!"
Ken Cenerelli
Creating an Microsoft Application Insights resource
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough how-to article!"
JH: "Application Insight is something everybody should have on his radar. Ken provides a nice article to get started."
Prashant Mahajan
Azure: MVC application to refer js from blob
JH: "Nice alternative on deploying JavaScript on Azure. Worth a look in some deployment scenarios
Ed Price: "This is a great topic! Could be improved on with code formatting and a See Also section. Good article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2015
XAML guy
Convert and Edit Microsoft Office Live Meeting Recordings
Alan Carlos: "Thanks XAML guy! Very yseful!"
Durval Ramos: "This article was "welcome", but "a little late". Simple and clear. Well done, Peter!"
Ed Price: "Fantastically crafted instructional guide!"
Richard Mueller: "Great information. Good use of article guidelines. I like the images."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: Trouble Shooting Installs
Alan Carlos: "Cool Andy!"
Durval Ramos: "This article is very detailed, has a demo and use description in different browsers, but could change sections order or maybe split article: "What's Silverlight?" and "Trouble Shooting Installs". Well,
one more time... Good job Andy!"
Ed Price: "Incredibly exhaustive with a lot of great supporting sections!"
Richard Mueller: "Good use of article guidelines, like "See Also" and TOC."
Tom Mohan
Zen coding with Visual Studio
Durval Ramos: "It would be welcome if added images and references about your use in VS"
Ed Price: "Great topic with some great code formatting! Could benefit from section headers and a See Also section. Very helpful article!"
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting. This tool could prove useful, once you get used to it."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2015
Murugesa Pandian
Simple understanding on SharePoint Provider Hosted App Model
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: ""
KB: "Please correct typos. I like the explanation on difference between app only permissions and user permissions"
Ed Price: "Great explanation! The diagrams are very helpful!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting start, but I feel this article needs a lot more work to become really useful. Not because the article is bad, but because of the fact that the topic is so complex."
Melick
JSOM List Operations in SharePoint Apps in a proper way (Provider
Hosted and SharePoint Hosted)–CRUD
Margriet Bruggeman: "Clean implementation of a very useful JS library. I really like this approach"
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The sound is great content for development in SharePoint"
Ed Price: "Good topic with helpful code snippets! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. "
Michaelle de las Alas
Expandable/Collapsible Headers Solution for SharePoint Pages
Hezequias Vasconcelos: "The page management and scheduled SharePoint content is a great resource."
Ed Price: "It's simple, well-written, and very helpful for the community! Could benefit from headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "I like it. A useful idea that is easy to implement."
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Philip Munts
Small Basic and the Raspberry Pi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Wonderful idea and good write up. Would be cool so have something running with the "regular" Raspbian."
RZ: "This is incredible. Detailed step-by-step instructions and pictures/screenshots. Makes me want to jump up and try it myself now. But I will save it for a nice rainy day project to work with my boy. I am sure he will be all in awe!"
Yan Grenier
Small Basic: Timeline for the games
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great advance article on timelines. Very usefull to those looking for more complex games."
RZ: "This is a difficult topic, especially for beginners. But Yan explained it very well with details and examples!"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic on TechNet Gallery
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Very useful "baseline" for those who want to blog / post."
RZ: "Very nice explanation of the TechNet Gallery"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2015
Jens Vestergaard
SSIS Script Task and Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) Script
RB: "Great article, that applies to any kind of web content."
PT: "Good quick reference example. Thanks for submitting it."
Ricardo Lacerda
SSIS: Data maintenance with Microsoft Azure SQL Database
PT: "This is a very complete tutorial on setting up CDC which makes the process quite clear. Thnaks"
RB: "Great article !"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2015
Visakh16
Parsing Out Data From Flat File With Inconsistent Delimiters in SQL Server
Durval Ramos: "Very useful. Good job !"
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on the code formatting, in-depth descriptions, and robust use of images!"
AM: "Thanks for presenting multiple approaches to solve the problem. It would be good to see a second part describing the format file."
DRC: "This is a good article which provides different ways to import the data to SQL, But this article needs some modifications. Suggestions: • It would be helpful, if mentioned on which version of SQL server and Visual studio scenario
was tested • We might encounter errors while using the format files, for example we get the below error if the format file doesn’t have blank space (character ) at the end of each line Msg 4862, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 Cannot bulk load because the file
"C:\temp\good.fmt" could not be read. Operating system error code (null). • So it will be helpful if you can provide a sample format file and TSQL script along with the possible output which can be tested and compared. • The sample query and the
format file is not yielding the right output. Screenshots shown in the article has invalid values (for example ID coulmn has invalid values). Format file need to be fixed to get the right data. • The format file under section “Files With Text Qualifiers” is
also invalid and the data is not imported properly. • Implementation of import using the SSIS package needs more details about how to make the delimiter consistent, Attaching a sample package would be helpful. "
System Center Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Ed Price: "Wow, I love the breakdown of sections. As Alan wrote in the comments, "Wow! Great article!""
Mr X
How to educate your users to regularly reboot their Windows computers
Ed Price: "I love the table and use of code snippets and images! Great article!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Sort a Column that Contains Character-Separated Numbers
Durval Ramos: "Great article! The samples in this article are very enlightening."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of guidelines. Good images. Grammar needs work."
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: Troubleshooting When a Column Alias that
Created in the SELECT Clause Cannot be Used in the ORDER BY Clause
Richard Mueller: "Great use of article guidelines. I like the images and "See Also". Good explanation of an advanced topic."
Durval Ramos: "An interesting topic and also have T-SQL script on TNGallery, about related issue in MS Connect. Good job!"
sql-pro
T-SQL: SQL Server Agent Job Execution Status
Durval Ramos: "This article has interesting content, but needs to be better worked."
Richard Mueller: "A great idea. We may need more references/links."
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2015
Reed Kimble
Simple Multi-User TCP/IP Client & Server using TAP
Durval Ramos: "This article offers a complete description about an TAP implementation and has a download code on MSDN Code. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "I liked this article a lot. Good use of article guidelines. A lot of useful links, but some could be collected in an "Other Resources" section."
.paul.
Factorizing Quadratic Equations (practice and solver)
Durval Ramos: "Very good. Well formatted article and has images that clarify how to work equations. "
Richard Mueller: "A fun article with good images."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2015
Isham Mohamed
Setting custom Messages in user defined Exceptions
Carmelo La Monica: "Good articles and sample code!"
Jaliya Udagedara: "A short and to the point article. Answers a common problem."
Tom Mohan
.NET: Equality Features
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has links to MSDN when needed. Definitely enjoyed reading."
Carmelo La Monica: "Article very detailed in all parts, congrats!"
Vithal Wadje
Constructors and Its Types in C#
Carmelo La Monica: "Well done in all its content , and very exhaustive of the types of constructors of a class"
Jaliya Udagedara: "Explains Constructors in detail. Please do format the code as Andy suggested."
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2015
Davut EREN
Turkish Ninjas Team Council Center
Durval Ramos: "Great collection of Turkish articles!!!"
Richard Mueller: "Amazing collection of links."
Ed Price: "Great job in using this article to build out Turkish content and encourage the community!"
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
TechNet Wiki - Images
Durval Ramos: "Very useful for use in "Wiki Ninjas" Blog posts."
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of fun images."
Ed Price: "I can see this article being well used as we leverage these images in blog posts!"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2015
Damien Allan
Make a Styled Button in XAML for Windows Universal Apps
JH: "Styling has always been special in XAML-based applications. This article shows nicely how to style a button in Blend in universal apps."
Ed Price: "Great explanations and how-to content, with helpful images and code!"
Carmelo La Monica
Part four: The control Maps on Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Another article about working with the maps control in Windows Phone 8. Nice to see another one in this series."
Ed Price: "Fantastic and exhaustive explanation of the Maps control!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2015
Noah Stahl
Make System Center Orchestrator Text Faster than a Teenager using PowerShell
and Twilio
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article! Congratulations!!!!"
Ed Price: "What a powerful solution with great details and helpful images!"
Richard Mueller
PowerShell Script to Search Active Directory
Ed Price: "This article is amazing, due to great details, a couple of helpful tables, lots of supporting images, and a plethora of related links at the end!"
Alan Carlos: "Very useful!!!"
Dan Christian
Add MSG file metadata to a SharePoint list using PowerShell
Alan Carlos: "Excellent!"
Ed Price: "I love the supplemental video and helpful images!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2015
Andy ONeill
Uneventful MVVM
Ed Price: "Amazing depth on this article! I love the See Also and Other Resources sections! Astonishingly great article!"
Peter Laker: "Supurb article Andy. Nice work again."
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: Implementing Global Hot Keys
Ed Price: "I love the breakdown of sections and clear descriptions!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent topic and well explained Magnus!"
Tom Mohan
Asynchronous data binding using IsAsync and Delay
Peter Laker: "Great tip Tom, thanks for your contribution!"
Ed Price: "Very valuable topic!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
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Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2015
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Active Directory - Clone a Domain Controller in Windows Server 2012
with Hyper-V (VM-GenerationID)
Mark Parris: "The principals of cloning a DC."
JM: "This is an excellent article on cloning a DC, nice work and thanks for the contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent topic and great images."
Mr X
Netstat for Beginners
JM: "This is a great article on netstat, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Very good tutorial on this important tool. I like the images and tables."
Mark Parris: "Good Insight"
Pierre-Alexandre Braeken
Set up a virtual infrastructure at home with Windows 8 + Hyper-V
Manager and a Synology DS412j
Mark Parris: "Nice how to article."
JM: "Although not aimed at Windows Server users, this is also an excellent article."
Richard Mueller: "Extensive documentation for all the steps."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Bitlocker Drive Encryption by
Darshana Jayathilake
Mark Parris: "Funcdermentals of Bitlocker."
JM: "This is a good article on Bitlocker, however it needs revision for clarity."
Richard Mueller: "Good images. Grammar and spelling need work."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
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The Results are in! And the winners of the TechNet Guru Competition June 2014 have been posted on the
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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."
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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,
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Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
More Guru Winners for February 2015 in the Windows Server category and many others!
It's been a busy week that also saw the
TECHNET WIKI SUMMIT 2015
Then we had the results for
February's TechNet Guru competition ALSO posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/03/19/technet-guru-february-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki 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 - February 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting a custom pipeline component with ETW
Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group."
Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Vignesh Sukumar
BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
Sandro Pereira: "Great job on this article! Well explained and nice pictures, however the article format need to be improved and some proofreading is need"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Welcome to the 'I heart BAM' fan club. Nice job on this topic. A MUST read for new-to-BAM users. "
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting BAM Activity Tracking with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Mandi Ohlinger: "ETW for BAM Activities - LOVE it. Nice use of the Framework. "
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2015
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Filter objects on export
PG: "Simple, targeted but nice article, nice layout. "
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice. Would be perfect with a complete code sample."
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2015
saramgsilva
Azure Mobile Services: How to see the log files in server
JH: "Log files are one of the most important things in a production environment. This article shows hows you can do that for the Azure Mobile Services in a nice and easy way."
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic! These are a great set of articles!"
saramgsilva
Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published
Ed Price: "Great detail and fantastic use of images! I love all the in-line links!"
JH: "Sometimes it is hard to tell when working in a multi-environment what configuration was published to the Server. The article shows short and easy how to do that for the Azure Mobile Services."
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2015
Arleta Wanat
Retrieve all site mailboxes in your Office 365 tenant
Durval Ramos: "This article has a well content, images and code that help to understand the solution. It has References and was Translated into more two languages. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "Good links. A great tutorial."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: No Need to BringIntoView
Durval Ramos: "A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read. This script is useful"
Richard Mueller: "Good demonstration of a new feature."
Chen V
PowerShell : Enable Auto Reply for Shared Mail Box
Durval Ramos: " A good solution originated of TechNet Forum. The script and images make it easy to understand and ensure you get the best interest to reader."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation of this feature."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - February 2015
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Performing Batch Operations using REST API
KB: "Very well explained article on a new and much awaited feature. Although Andrew Connell already explained this topic in several posts, this article still contains added value."
Ed Price: "I love the History section. The formatting is amazing. And the References and See Also sections at the bottom are great icing on the cake. This is an important topic that's done incredibly well!"
Matthew Yarlett
Using the SpellCheck Webservice with the TinyMCE Richtext Editor and
AngularJS in Office 365
KB: "I read this article with growing interest, it contains a lot of added value. Very well and in-depth explanation. "
Ed Price: "Great scenario! Good use of images, code, detail, and References! Could possibly use a greater breakdown and explanation of the code. This article just gets more and more interesting and valuable as you read it! Great job!"
Arleta Wanat
SharePoint Online: Turn on support for multiple content types
in a list or library using Powershell
KB: "Really nice, interesting and detailed article!"
Ed Price: "The Content Types section helps explain this a lot! I also love the downloads at the end. What a fantastic resource!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Key Input
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great improvement."
RZ: "Very nice explanation and examples of key input handling"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic: The History of the Logo Turtle
RZ: "Turtle (Logo) was the first programming language for many, including perhaps some of the Small Basic prorammers. Nice article explaining the history."
Michiel Van Hoorn: "A nice background article and hopefull inspiration for those who want to start in robotics"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: TechNet Wiki Article List
Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is great! Perfect as a local cache of the articles. "
RZ: "A good example"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015
Sylvain PONTOREAU
PowerBI API in .Net
RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)"
PT: "Sylvain, very nice job with this. This is a timely topic about an emerging product that has great potential. This is a very good example of a well-written post on an interesting subject with enough information to be valuable to a
solution developer. I will personally take time to explore the Power BI API and use your examples. "
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - February 2015
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server Books Online
AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. It is quite informative and let us get familiar with BOL after the change from previous versins."
Ed Price: "Nice! A very helpful introduction to Books Online! It also tells my technical writer friends that their hard work is appreciated! =^)"
Durval Ramos
How to Collect Events and Errors on SQL Server
Ed Price: "Fantastic solution! A great resource that's amazingly well written with formatting, clear parameters, images, References, and a See Also section! And it even comes in Portuguese! Great article!"
AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. A good source to learn about our SQL Server instances. "
System Center Technical Guru - February 2015
MarkusEliasson
Troubleshoot ID 32008: DPM cannot
protect this SharePoint farm...
Ed Price: "An important topic that's very clear with great formatting and a good use of an image!"
t.c.rich
Managing Priorities of Client Polices and A/V Policies in SCCM
Ed Price: "I love the descriptions, breakdown of sections, and code formatting! Great article!"
Mr X
How to copy SMSTS.log when a Task Sequence fails in SCCM
Ed Price: "A very helpful table and a good contribution to the community! Mr X again thinks of important content gaps to fill!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - February 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How the Order of Elements in the ORDER BY Clause Implemented in the Output Result
Durval Ramos: "Very well structured and with examples that clarify how a T-SQL statement can change the data output order."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines and great examples."
Ronen Ariely
Free E-Books about SQL and Transact-SQL languages
Richard Mueller: "An excellent collection and a great idea."
Durval Ramos: "A good initiative. Very useful !!!"
Ricardo Lacerda
Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals
- Accumulated Earnings
Durval Ramos: "The "Window function" sample was well presented, but it was unclear how the chart was generated."
Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Emiliano Musso
Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic
MR: "Great article! Love to see an application for AI in a simple game"
Durval Ramos: "This article is well documented with images and your code clarifying important details. It also has References, a very useful video and your project available for download in "MSDN Code" !"
Richard Mueller: "Incredible concept and code. Grammar needs work."
Paul Ishak
MultiHeadedTrackBar Control
Durval Ramos: "Very interesting article, with methods and properties well documented. Your project was available in "MSDN Code" which facilitates the understanding of solution."
Richard Mueller: "Amazing work. Extensive code but with lots of comments. Needs a TOC"
tommytwotrain
Using Trigonometry to draw graphic curves in VB.NET part 2.
MR: "Great continuation. Love the usage of the code for circle text"
Durval Ramos: "The article is interesting, but It's need to work better commenting about assemblies referenced on project and also structure your content into sections."
Richard Mueller: "Good tutorial and example code demonstrating basic concepts. Avoid first person."
Visual C# Technical Guru - February 2015
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Enumerating collections that change
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has a thorough and to the point explanation of problem and the solution with code samples. Loved it!"
Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful and exhaustive about errors at runtime in these circumstances. Congratulations"
Andy ONeill
c#: Practical Poly
Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic artcle. Very detailed and exhaustive, congratulations ."
Jaliya Udagedara: "Definitely worth reading this. Explains somewhat advance topic along with a fundamental concept of programming. "
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - February 2015
Durval Ramos
Wiki: Microsoft Short URLs Personalized by SXP
PG: "Nice idea, lots of potential to grow, really needs some more community attention."
Richard Mueller: "An excellent idea. Good use of Wiki guidelines."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - February 2015
Carmelo La Monica
Windows Phone 8: control Nokia Maps (Part 3)
JH: "Part 3 of the series how to work with the Nokia maps control. As the previous articles this one contains a lot of code snippets and some pictures. Good work!"
Ed Price: "A great topic, a fantastic breakdown of sections with clear descriptions, and a nice mix of code formatting and helpful images! Another stellar article from Carmelo! Great job including the link back at the end to the portal
article!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2015
Richard Mueller
Document Your Active Directory Organization
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article, congratulations!!! Very detailed!"
Chen V: "Excellent Article - I liked return to top as well."
Ed Price: "Wow! It's like a professional whitepaper! It's a valuable topic that's done with intricate detail! I love the images, diagrams, code blocks, and it ends very well with more resources and Wiki articles! The article just keeps
digging deeper and deeper! Awesome job on this!"
DexterPOSH
PowerShell + REST API : Invoke-RestMethod Gotcha
Chen V: "Good Article. TOC might have made this more rich! "
Ed Price: "This is a good topic with some great content. It could benefit from sections and a TOC, as well as a References and See Also sections at the end. The inline links are helpful. Could "
DexterPOSH
PowerShell Trick : Search & highlight text in MS Word
Ed Price: "This is a great solution, with some helpful Q&A in the comments!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - February 2015
Andy ONeill
Lookless Controls
KJ: "WPF can definitely be confusing when devs first encounter it. Like the way you break it down."
Ed Price: "Wow! Fantastic explanations that are very clear and deep! The images and code bring it to life!"
Andy ONeill
Only One Parent
KJ: "Same iwith this one, good 101 intro"
Ed Price: "Another great tip! I love the detail here as well! Those snippets help a lot!"
Andy ONeill
Bind to Current Item of Collection
KJ: "Feel like this topic has a lot of coverage out there, but it can't hurt to hammer on databinding yet one more time :) "
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic with great execution! Although these could benefit from References and See Also wiki sections at the end, the Inline links help a lot!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015
Mr X
Ping for Beginners
Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content."
JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting"
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties."
JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing."
Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea."
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information."
JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article !"
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Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015
Mr X
Ping for Beginners
Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content."
JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting"
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties."
JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing."
Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea."
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information."
JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article !"
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