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 !" |
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
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