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Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, November 2015 !!!!
The TechNet Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU!
Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts), and the winners of each category are showered with love and attention from all corners of TechNet.
See the links at the bottom, to find out more about the competition and how to enter.
We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon.
The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category.
The last column is just a few of the comments judges made during the judging process.
In some cases, we have not obtained permission to use the judges names, so they have been reduced to initials.
My fellow wiki ninjas will be digging deeper into some of these articles in this blog series, so watch out for those.
Starting this month you will notice some articles are marked as failing to meet our minimum bar for quality or content.
Any of our judges can exercise their right to veto an article, if they do not feel it meets minimum requirements for a medal.
When this is the case, we will at least give an indication of the reason, so you understand why.
A big thank you also to the other authors who did not make the top three of each category.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Johns-305 | BizTalk: Preserve Xml Header When Debatching | TGN: "Very good article John!! :)" SW: "Very usefull article to solve preservation of an XML Header in an efficient, easy manner." Sandro Pereira: "It’s never a good idea to debaching messages inside orchestrations but still is an easy manner to solve this kind of problem. Useful article, well written and nice layout (format, pictures, …)." Abhishek Kumar: "Vey well written artcile John . Thanks for all your contribution to the BizTalk Community" Mandi Ohlinger: "Very nice walkthrough of your solution. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and experience. " |
| Janardhan Bikka | BizTalk custom xml validation to get error summary | TGN: "Reminds me of Saravanas blog post back in the day... http://blogs.biztalk360.com/extended-xmlvalidation-pipeline-component/" SW: "Leveraging an old idea from Saravana Kumar in a new style." Sandro Pereira: "A nice article but as a note, you should always point (reference), or whenever justified, the reference sources. The layout could be significantly improved, better pictures, use code instead of pictures and so on. You should look to the existing BizTalk articles available and try to keep the same format." 5 Mandi Ohlinger: "A nice update to the solution. Thank you for your contribution! " |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Daniel Örneling | Automatically create AD users with Azure Automation and OMS | JH: "Nice automation article. Would love to see more automation use cases." AS: "I am having trouble to understand why should I bother with Azure Automation for this, when I can use Azure AD Sync. And what value brings me the fact that I create same users in my Local AD and in my Azure AD when the both are not synchronized." |
| Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja | Deploy a Simple Azure Website from Visual Studio | AS: "Nice short article." JH: "Plain and simple. One IDE to rule them all." |
Note: Gold winner was removed, and Danel and Hussain have been promoted.
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Azure Mobile Services: Tips & Tricks by
Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja
AS: "Good start. However the subject is a bit missleading - I did not see any Tip and any Trick. The article just described how to create a Mobile Service with JS backend. And by the way, .NET Backend is fully scaffolded too - you do not have to implement it on your own, if you do not need any customization over the standard Tables API."
JH: "Some people miss the quickstart section in the portal. Good to point that one out." - Microsoft Azure FAQs by
Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja
AS: "In an FAQ article, I would really expect Questions with Answers. And a lot of links to support those answers. "
JH: "Nice summary. Would be great to have some pointers for the different bullet points."
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| SYEDSHANU | Dynamic Pivot Grid Using MVC, AngularJS and WEB API | Richard Mueller: "Great detail and great images in this article. Avoid first person." Peter Laker: "Very good article, well written and full of goodness" |
| Michel Jatoba | How to configure Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics | Peter Laker: "A great read, and very useful, thanks Michel" Richard Mueller: "Good images. References would greatly help." |
| Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja | Blend for Visual Studio: | Richard Mueller: "Short, but well explained with good images." Peter Laker: "Nice guide, thanks Hussain" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Handling exception in WEB API 2 is now much easier with just 4 steps bySugumar Pannerselvam
Peter Laker: "Great writeup of a useful issue"
Richard Mueller: "Needs more detail." - MVC AngularJS Master/Detail CRUD, Filter And Sorting Using WEB API 2 With Stored Procedure
by SYEDSHANU
Peter Laker: "Another masterful document Syed, very good"
Richard Mueller: "Great use of Wiki guidelines. Detailed steps and good references. Grammar needs work. Avoid first person." - Visual Studio 2015: Installing SDK for Windows Universal App Development by
Umer Qureshi
Richard Mueller: "Good explanation and images."
Peter Laker: "Thanks Umer!" - Getting Visual Studio Debugger running on latest build of Windows 10 IoT byRavindran Keshavan
Peter Laker: "Very useful article Ravindran, thank you!"
Richard Mueller: "Good steps, but more explanation and detail needed. Avoid first person."
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Satyajit321 | PowerShell: Test-DiskSPDBlo ck Script - For Storage Performance Testing | KB: "Interesting script!" Peter Laker: "Very useful script! Thank you!" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Ed Price - MSFT | Small Basic: Using a Sentinel for Loop Control | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Excellent post on using loops and an approach to use a Sentinel number. Great examples in coding principles" Peter Laker: "From the master, to the masses! Great snippet Ed" |
| SYEDSHANU | Getting Started with Microsoft Small Basic for Beginners | Peter Laker: "Fantastic introduction to the subject Syed, thanks!" Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great intro into Small Basic programming with fun (and new) examples." |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Greg Deckler (Quick Solutions) | DAX - Simple Linear Regression Pattern | PT: "This is an excellent example to show the flexibility of DAX and helped me (not a mathamatician or statistician) realize the power of the Power BI platform. This is a great reference article. Suggestion: please add
a short business scenario for demonstration purposes." RB: "This is an excellent article" |
| Sathya | SSRS - Make common change in multiple reports in one click | PT: "This is a very intricate solution and I can see how it solves a challenging problem. I may use and reference this article as I think it demonstrates the complexity of the problem with siloed report designs. The problem
could be mitigated by storing the logo in a database but that doesnlt solve the problem after 100 reports have already been designed with embedded images. Nice work." RB: "This is a very good article. Lots of useful points covered" |
| Visakh16 | SSIS Tips: A Real Time File Processing Solution | PT: "Very useful real-world solution and good reference article. Thanks" RB: "Great tips!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- DAX - Deming Regression Pattern by
Greg Deckler (Quick Solutions)
RB: "Very good"
PT: "Thanks for submitting both of these articles on regression patterns. I chose the simple linear regression article as the monthly contest winner because it explained the problem and solution. This is a great extension to that article showing another method. " - SSAS, SSIS: Extending Project Server OLAP Cubes via push-mode processing by
sergey vdovin
PT: "For someone who is not very familiar with the components of Project Server mentions in this short article, this is hard to follow or to recognize the business value. Examples and would be useful."
RB: "Good start! Needs something more"
| System Center Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Adin Ermie | Having Trouble Getting SCOM To Connect To OMS? | AB: "Excellent article!" Richard Mueller: "Great images. Very detailed steps." |
| Mark Allen | Planning the bulk import of applications into SCCM 2012 R2 | AB: "Good overview" Richard Mueller: "Avoid use of first person." |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Natig Gurbanov | SQL Server: How to automatically stop unnecessary data at insert | Richard Mueller: "TOC, headings, and See Also section help this article a lot." Peter Laker: "Very useful, well written!" |
| Natig Gurbanov | SQL SERVER Troubleshooting: Select from NULL rows | Richard Mueller: "Good headings and title, grammar needs work." Peter Laker: "More great work!" |
| Natig Gurbanov | SQL Server:Find updated row by another user | Richard Mueller: "Good example." Peter Laker: "Great work Natig!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- SQL Server: INSERT to Remove Duplicate Rows byNatig Gurbanov
Peter Laker: "Another good article!"
Richard Mueller: "Grammar needs work." - SQL SERVER : Creating Pivot Table With sign() Function byNatig Gurbanov
Richard Mueller: "Good example. Grammar needs work."
Peter Laker: "Keep em coming!"
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| .paul. | International Time & Currency | Carmelo La Monica: "Very interesting article and very beautiful Images, congrats !" Richard Mueller: "Lots of good code. Excellent use of Wiki guidelines" |
| Reed Kimble | Mary had a Little Lambda - Using Lambdas to Write Clean Code | Carmelo La Monica: "Good work, and interesting method for to data hiding." Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines." |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| SYEDSHANU | Pareto Chart C# Winform | Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic work, great Image Animated fot Pareto Chart, and very good C# Code!" Jaliya Udagedara: "Great implementation. Love the fact that the sample is available for download from MSDN Code Gallery." |
| João Sousa | ASP.NET MVC 5 – Entity Framework 6, CRUD Operations onVisual Studio 2015 | Carmelo La Monica: "Very interesting, i don't know AspNet, but Ef6 and Crud operation on DataBase is very easy to understand." Jaliya Udagedara: "Step by step explained, nice. But please do keep in mind that wikis are not blog posts. Have a look at TechNet Wiki Guidelines." |
| Mauricio Feijo | A purist’s C# implementation of the linked list algorithm | Jaliya Udagedara: "Good! You can use the MSDN Code Gallery to share the code." Carmelo La Monica: "Good sample for to linked list, very good code C# and detailed information for other users. Congrats." |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - November 2015 |
It could be YOU! :)
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| beatcracker | Parameter validation gotchas | Jan Egil Ring: "Well explained and well written" Richard Mueller: "Great new information that is good to know. Well explained. Some references would help." |
| Mark Allen | Planning the bulk import of applications into SCCM 2012 R2 | Richard Mueller: "Good guidelines and good grammar, but avoid first person." Jan Egil Ring: "Thanks Mark!" |
| Satyajit321 | Recover Deleted Items Usage Report | Jan Egil Ring: "Nice tip!" Richard Mueller: "Detailed steps and good TOC." |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Anil Kumar | How to create your first WPF application | Peter Laker: "Great introduction Anil, good coverage of the basics!" LL: "Wow, excellent article" |
| Andy ONeill | Moving UI to Cursor | LL: "Very good article" Peter Laker: "Another awesome article Andy! Lots of great work went into this." |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - November 2015 |
| Kia Zhi Tang (Ryen Tang) | Windows Nano Server: Virtualization with VMware vSphere | Mark Parris: "Very good instructions on the installation process." JM: "This is a fantastic article on Nano Server, thanks for your contribution" Richard Mueller: "Very detailed with great images and code. It would help to have references and a "See Also" section. Good TOC." |
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to November's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in December 2015'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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