September has finally arrived, traditionally a strong month for TechNet Guru contributions.
Maybe it is because our professionals have returned from a well deserved Summer break refreshed and inspired?
Maybe it's because they have had some quality time to think of something good to contribute?
Also it is common for this time of year to bring in some new authors. New contenders! New legends!
Could that be you? Do you want some accolade or acknowledgement that you "know your stuff" ?
TechNet Guru winners can go on to be MVPs and high profile technical evangelists within the Microsoft community and work place!
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 toTechNet 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.
August's entries are still with the judges, but below are July's mighty winners and contenders!
| BizTalk Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Kjetil Tonstad | 22x Latency Improvement In BizTalk Without Changing The Code | Sandro Pereira: “A pure simple masterpiece! Well done Kjetil Tonstad.” LG: “A good real-life example, which is very helpful. Thank you for sharing!” |
| Mandar Dharmadhikari | Analysis of Scenario Which Results in TDDS Crash | LG: “Interesting finding. Thanks for sharing!” Sandro Pereira: “Another great addiction to the TechNet Wiki. Very useful tip. In terms of content, the layout (text, pictures, headers, empty spaces) could be significantly improved because presentation is also good for a better read experience
of the article “ |
| Rahul Madaan | Using TIBCO EMS adapter in BizTalk | Sandro Pereira: “Not easy to find information about this topic. Nice addiction to the TechNet Wiki. Regarding to the article, it can be a little improved with more content, the layout should be improved and for better reading
some of the picture should be follow by the commands in pure text. Nevertheless, great start “ |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Ronen Ariely & Sabah Shariq | List of forums by Languages, categories, and field of discussions | Richard Mueller: “Excellent use of Wiki Guidelines, with even “Return to Top” links (these help in such a long article). This article allows us to search for the forums we want easily. Listing them by category helps.” Ed Price: “Very valuable article, that already has 55 revisions. I see this as an article that’s going to get a lot of use from readers and tweaks from contributors!” |
| Ken Cenerelli | Killing zombie Google Chrome processes | Richard Mueller: “Very well explained. Useful code to know and use. The link to the code in the script gallery should be in the References section rather than the See Also, as it is not a Wiki. I like the references.” Ed Price: “Interesting title! Great and clear write-up, and it features a number of helpful links to learn more on this topic of using Chrome on Windows. Thanks!” |
| SYEDSHANU | Getting Started with ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2 and Angular2 | Ed Price: “Wow! This is incredibly deep. Love the See Also link and Download link to the source code on TechNet Gallery! Great introduction and use of images. If you need a grammar pass, please ask people for help! Then check
this history to see what tweaks were made.” Richard Mueller: “Detailed steps in this article, but I found the explanation hard to follow. The external links should be collected in an “Other Resources” section. Grammar needs work.” |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Small Basic Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Thomas LeBlanc | Using a Lookup Component in SSIS | PT: “Tom, you have the only entry this month so YOU WIN! Fortunately it’s also a good post with answers to commonly-asked questions about the SSIS Lookup transform. Thanks” Ed Price: “Fantastic explanations of each piece of the puzzle. Good use of images. This is common, and you go very deep with it. Thank you! It could be improved with Headers and a TOC. Great contribution!” Ronen Ariely: “Nice article. Can be very useful. Missing some important sections like Table of content, background or introduction, conclusions, and links to get more information. I recommend to follow articles templates.” |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Prashanth Jayaram | SQL-Server(s)-Inventory-Excel-CSV-Console- Using PowerShell SMO and RMO | Ronen Ariely: “Important issue! The reference links are missing titles.” Ed Price: “I love the Abstract and Pre-requisites (very important and very clear to have them listed like this). The Logic Flow diagram is also incredibly helpful! As are the use of images and the Conclusion. It would be good to break up
the code and explain it (and host it on MSDN/TechNet Gallery). Great article!” |
| Prashanth Jayaram | How-To-Refresh-Multiple-sql-database(s)-Using-PowerShell | Ronen Ariely: “Very useful script. TechNet Wiki is not a personal post, and articles should be written in 3rd person. There are links for references at the end, but no titles. The reader must click each link in order
to know what they are.” Ed Price: “Fantastic job formatting this. The diagram in “DB Refresh Flow” is useful, but a little small. It would be good to have an image of the output earlier on. In the Code sections, it would be useful for the code to be broken into
parts and then explained in depth. Then the full code could be on TechNet/MSDN Gallery and you could link to it. Great job on the code formatting and References (as Ronen mentions, it’s better to embed the URL in the title of the article). And I love the Restore
and Conclusion sections!” |
| System Center Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Ronen Ariely | SQL Server – Exposing masked data | Samuel Lester: “Outstanding depth, thanks for the great detail on DDM strengths and limitations” Richard Mueller: “A great article describing a new feature. The code is well explained with detailed steps. Thanks!” |
| Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| .paul. | VB.Net OOP Address Book | MR: “Amazing work! Thanks for submitting it!” Richard Mueller: “Great use of Wiki guidelines, with good images and code. We could use more references.” |
| Visual C# Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| SYEDSHANU | ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2 and Angular2 using WEB API | Jaliya Udagedara: “This is fantastic. Loved seeing use of ASP.NET Core, Angular 2 along with TypeScript. And you can download the full sample code from TechNet Gallery, Perfect!” Ronen Ariely: “The article organized as step-by-step case study, which I love. it starts from prerequisites till the execution, and full project code attached. Well done! ” Carmelo La Monica: “Very great article in alla parts. Good code, Images and presentation.” |
| Sandeep Shekhawat | Relationship in Entity Framework Using Code First Approach With Fluent API | Jaliya Udagedara: “Well explained with the use of code snippets and images. And you can play around with the code after downloading the sample from TechNet Gallery!” Ronen Ariely: “Great article, very nice introduction, well formatted and well explains. The option to download the Code as project is always great advantage.” Carmelo La Monica: “Congrats for the topic. i don’t know Entity framework, this is good point for to start.” |
| Karthik Elumalai | Import-and-export-excel-files-into-varbinary-max-in-sql-server using Asp.net C# | Carmelo La Monica: “Great topic , great presentation and code C # related” Ronen Ariely: “Nice article. Missing source code link to download, missing explanations. missing “See also” section with some links. There is room for improvement.” Jaliya Udagedara: “Would love to see more explanations around the code.” |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Prashanth Jayaram | PowerShell- DiskSpaceGUI-Tool-MultiServer(s)-Grid-Email-Search-Features | Richard Mueller: “Well explained with good images, code, and references. Lots of code. Could interesting or novel sections of the code be highlighted and futher explained? Perhaps the code should be in the script Gallery.” Ed Price: “Great descriptions. Could benefit from a formatting pass (font style, for example) and more of a breakdown of the code block so that you know what each part of the code does. Good use of images and good Conclusion. Great References
section, but it might be good to embed the links in the titles of the articles so that we know what the articles are about a little better. Great contribution!” |
| Arleta Wanat | Powershell GridView to help with SharePoint data viewing | Ed Price: “Good use of images and helpful article, but a little light in the explanations. Could use a See Also section with Wiki links.” Richard Mueller: “Interesting. We could use more explanation and references.” |
| Maor Bracha | Azure & Office365 Available and consumed licenses report for MS partners | Ed Price: “This is a good topic, but it would be more valuable to include the code, breaking it down and explaining what it does. ” Richard Mueller: “We need more explanation of the code. Also, references and a “See Also” would help.” |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Windows Server Technical Guru – July 2016 |
| Peter Geelen | Best Practices for Internal AD Domain and Network Names | Mark Parris: “Knowledge that all Active Directory Administrators need to know.” Richard Mueller: “Very well explained and a good addition to the Wiki in this category. I especially like the references.” JM: “This is a great article on naming conventions for AD, thanks for your contribution” |
| Kia Zhi Tang (Ryen Tang) | Nano Server: Deploying Python 3.x interpreter | JM: “This is an excellent article on Python in Nano Server, thanks for your contribution” Mark Parris: “Good insights on Nano Server and Python Interpreter” Richard Mueller: “Great use of Wiki guidelines with good references and a great “See Also” section.” |
Good luck!
Pete Laker
(Azure MVP)
#PEJL
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