Wiki Life: Teach a Ninja to Hunt
A while ago Ninja Thomas learned us to fish, using the RSS features of Technet Wiki.
But what if you've got more appetite? Start hunting!
Today's Wiki Life article is about the range of tools you can use to find the things you need.
Featured articles
- Wiki home!
- Be the first to know: RSS feed of the featured articles.
Wiki most recent articles
- Click <here> to get the most recent Wiki articles
Tags
- Seaching articles with a specific tag:
- Copy/paste this URL in to your browser and replace the <yourtag> bit with tag of your choice.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/<yourtag>/default.aspx - (Just an example, find "FIM2010" tagged wiki articles <here>.)
- Copy/paste this URL in to your browser and replace the <yourtag> bit with tag of your choice.
- Searching multiple tags at once
- Find popular topics using the Tag cloud
Did you know the Wiki tag cloud had its own link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/default.aspx
Search
- Search the Wiki : https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/search/
Catalog pages
If you need to search for a more general topic or group of articles concerning a platform, you can use the group buttons on the landing page.
As mentioned before, check the featured articles per group.
You can also find overview pages per technology.
And last but not least, the Wiki: Technologies Portal is a must-read.
Powershell
- Wiki Life: Introducing Power Wiki - How to search TechNet Wiki content within the PowerShell console
- How to Use PowerShell to Create a Wiki Catalog Page (en-US)
There is far more out there, so let me know if you have other suggestions to navigate the Wiki!
More than happy to update this article with your addtional hints & tips.
[Ka-jah Shakaah!]
The Security & Identity Ninja.
Peter Geelen
peter@fim2010.com Premier Field Engineer - Security & Identity at Microsoft
CISSP, CISA, MCT, former-MVP Forefront Identity Manager
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