Interview with a Wiki Ninja: Santosh Bhandarkar, Windows Server and Directory's Service Expert

Welcome to our Monday Interview with a Wiki Ninja !

 

Today the interview will be with Santosh Bhandarkar. A Directory's Service expert, Windows Server's guru, top answered in Windows server's forum, moderator in some Windows's Server forums and a wiki contributor !

 

 

Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?

 

I am from India, I am currently working as a Project Lead (Infrastructure Management Services) at iGATE (India).

I have hands-on experience on various Microsoft Products and Technologies, various Enterprise Applications, Server Hardware, Storage, Network Infrastructure and VMware Infrastructure technologies.

 

What are your big projects right now?

 

I recently passed Exam 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services and currently working on Exam 70-243 TS: Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Configuring.

 

I am planning to write few Wiki articles on Group Policy tweaks.

 

Besides your work on TechNet Wiki, where do you contribute?

 

TechNet Server Forums.

 

I am glad that, I have been given an opportunity to Moderate few TechNet Server forums out of many.

 

What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

 

TechNet Wiki is for EVERYONE! Especially for Windows enthusiasts.

 

What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?

 

An innovative platform where anyone can contribute, write amazing articles and spread knowledge.

 

 

What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

 

Best Practices for Setting Up Page File and Minimum Drive Size Required for OS Partition on Windows Servers

 

What are your top 5 favorite Wiki articles?

 

1. Wiki: Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Portal by Richard Mueller

 

2. Active Directory: DSQUERY Commands by i.biswajith

 

3.      Active Directory: Disaster Recovery with a System State Backup Step by Step by Yagmoth555

 

4. How to View or Delete Active Directory Delegated Permissions by Patris_70

 

5. SQL Server 2008 R2 by Ed Price - MSFT

 

 

Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?

 

Ed Price - MSFT, Richard Mueller and Yagmoth555– Amazing contributions to Technet Wiki, their passion and dedication cannot be explained in words, too impressive!

 

 

Do you have any comments for product groups about TechNet Wiki?

 

Thanks so much for this wonderful platform. Great Job, keep up the great work J

 

Thanks, Santosh Bhandarkar

 

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Thanks Santosh for the interview !

Santosh is someone that I knew from my day one when I started to contribute in the TechNet's forum last year, so I can personnaly tell that he's a big online contributor ! Don't hesitate to leave a comment 

 

 

- French Ninja Phil (Wiki, Profile, Twitter)