The TechNet Guru Awards, January 2016!
All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, January 2016 !!!!
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.
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BizTalk Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Steef-Jan Wiggers | BizTalk Server 2013 R2: WCF-MSMQ Binding (Adapter) | Sandro Pereira: "It may be an old topic, i.e., nothing new in term of features but I found that simple stuff and not well document are indeed nice topic. I love it. Nice piece of article. Good job Steef-Jan." TGN: "good explaination and images, well done as always Steef" Ed Price: "I love the clear scenario and diagram at the beginning!" LG: "It is interesting but nothing realy new." |
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Steef-Jan Wiggers | BizTalk Server 2013 R2: SB-Messaging with SAS | LG: "It is more interesting info than others. Azure is pretty fresh topic for BizTalk " Sandro Pereira: "Connecting on premise with could creating awesome and robust integrations. Once again awesome work! Simple and very clear, a masterpiece." Abhishek Kumar: "Steef-Jan brings his expertise with each Artcile .Nicely Written and well explained ." TGN: "I love this one. ;) Great one!" |
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Janardhan Bikka | BizTalk: Handle exceptions from REST services in Orchestration | Abhishek Kumar: "Nicely Work done Janardhan . Really loved reading your artcile over exception handling with Rest Api" Ed Price: "Although similar to the Wiki article it references (BizTalk Server: REST Services Error Handling), this is a great addition that helps bring a new perspective to the problem!" LG: "There is much simpler way to deal with REST from BizTalk." Sandro Pereira: "The layout of the article could and should be improved. The article itself should be improved (there are some steeps or key information’s that were suppressed) but in his favor has source code and it is a valid way to handle errors" TGN: "Very good, nice set of images, good explaination. Great article" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Microsoft Integration Roadmap by Steef-Jan Wiggers
Abhishek Kumar: "Steef-Jan Thanks for Integration Roadmap to broad audience ."
TGN: "Very good, great article to have one the TN Wiki"
LG: "It is just a link to the document from Microsoft! Nothing else."
Sandro Pereira: "It’s the public roadmap and a nice addition to the TechNet Article. Simple, but for sure, it deserves an article."
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Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Peter Geelen - MSFT | FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 1. Introduction | Ed Price: "This series is awesome! The diagrams help a ton and the heat-map table is pretty cool!" AM: "Excellent series. Very useful to have all best practices in one place." |
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Jeff Ingalls | FIM/MIM: How to Bulk Export Connector and Disconnector Status | Søren Granfeldt: "Nice pitch for a forgotten tool" Ed Price: "Great use of images and code formatting!" |
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Peter Geelen - MSFT | FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 4. Detailed Description | Ed Price: "Powerful, never-ending use of tables! Very helpful. Thanks!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 3. Compact Checklist by Peter Geelen - MSFT
Ed Price: "The color-coding is very helpful!" - FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 5. Operational Best Practices by Peter Geelen - MSFT
- FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 6. References & authoritative resources by Peter Geelen - MSFT
Ed Price: "Another fantastic resource you'll want to keep coming back to! " - FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 7. Additional resources by Peter Geelen - MSFT
Ed Price: "Great job on the Appendix A diagram!" - FIM 2010: Planning security setup for accounts, groups and services - Part 8. Glossary by Peter Geelen - MSFT
Ed Price: "The glossary is a helpful resource that you'll want to return to. "
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Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Chilberto | Azure File Storage - On-premises Folder Sync | JH: "Small and simple. A good one." AS: "Good article. It will be also good to mention that it is prerequisite to create the file share first." |
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Steef-Jan Wiggers | Upload a document to Azure Blob Storage progammatically | JH: "Nice one. Haven't thought that this one was missing in the wiki." AS: "It will be good to mention why we chose CloudBlockBlob as opposed to CloudPageBlob and CloudFile and explain differences." |
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Miscellaneous Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Namrah Khurram | .NET Core – a transition into the future | Richard Mueller: "Very informative and well explained. We can use some references/links." Ed Price: "Fantastic high-level explanations and diagrams that make this a true gem!" |
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SYEDSHANU | ASP.NET MVC 5 Security And Creating User Role | Richard Mueller: "Lots of good code. Good images." Ed Price: "Love the animated GIF and diagrams at the top! Coupled together with the images and instructions, and you have a great article!" |
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João Sousa | ASP.NET 5 - Connect to SQL Azure Database | Ed Price: "Solid set of instructions! Please review the article comment from Richard about Step 2. Good use of images! Could benefit from a See Also section at the end that links to other Wiki articles." Richard Mueller: "More explanation would help." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- MVC Dynamic Menu Creation Using AngularJS and WCF Rest by SYEDSHANU
Richard Mueller: "An advanced topic with lots of code and good images. Cross-links for many of the acronyms would help."
Ed Price: "Wow. Incredible depth! Great use of MSDN Gallery to host the source code!" - Windows 10 IoT Core On Raspberry Pi2: Installation And Configuration by Carmelo La Monica
Ed Price: "Love the topic! Great use of images! Would benefit from See Also (wiki links) and Other Resources (external links) at the end. The Introduction and Conclusion are very helpful!"
Richard Mueller: "Great images. References/links would help." - Go under the hood with Visual Studio Code by Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja
Richard Mueller: "Interesting, but we need more, especially references/links."
Ed Price: "Good topic, but I'd want to go deeper with instructions and examples for each tip and trick. " - Sway - Overview of the Application by Hezequias Vasconcelos
JH: "Nice little introduction to Sway."
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SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Nathanaël Stassart | SharePoint 2013 - Crawl file shares for Claims ADFS Users | Margriet Bruggeman: "A good article about crawling file shares. Great to read!" Ed Price: "Great scenario! Very thorough combination of explanations, instructions, clarifying images, and code. Great article!" TN: "Great article which provides the solution to comon problem" |
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Dan Christian | Build a custom SharePoint page template to display site columns | Ed Price: "Incredibly powerful and thorough article, and the two embedded videos go above and beyond to make this article astonishing! Great job, Dan!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Well explained article, the screenshots are sometimes a bit too big." |
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Rahul A Shinde | SharePoint 2013: How to show all documents of current user with preview using Search REST services | TN: "Helpful article to practice CSOM." Margriet Bruggeman: "I'm very enthusiastic about this article. Going to try it myself!" Ed Price: "Good snapshots at the end and innovative way to explain the code!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- SharePoint 2013: Create Reusable Workflow on Content Type using SharePoint Designer 2013 by Danish Islam
Ed Price: "Great set of instructions and helpful links."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice article about workflows." - SharePoint REST API Javascript Library by Michaelle de las Alas
Margriet Bruggeman: "A little bit short but nice to the point explanation."
Ed Price: "Great topic and code formatting. Could beneft from a more thorough explanation of the code and a See Also section with Wiki links at the end. Good contributions! Thanks!"
Ashutosh Singh: ""
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Small Basic Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Clock | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great article on the clock object and how to work with time. Foundational knowledge for any programmer." Peter Laker: "Nicely formed, well laid out, good contribution" |
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Ed Price - MSFT | Small Basic: Prime Sieve | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Fun math example that's a mathematical challenge; it is solved in Small Basic. Great to learn the beauty of math and programming" Peter Laker: "Professionally written, great addition" |
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SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Greg Deckler | Correlation, Seasonality and Forecasting with Power BI | RB: "Great demo of seasonality, forecasting and regression in Power Bi" Ed Price: "Greg, fantastic job on this! The images help add a lot of value." PT: "Greg, thank you for sharing this realistic forecasting example with the community. Good learning material. A couple small things I might approach differently: replace the division math with the DIVIDE function to avoid divide-by-zero errors. Using a Date table in-place of the integer quarter numbers would all enable using relative date functions, like DATEADD in the YearQuarter calculation. The last two charts are followed by cryptic text such as """ |
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SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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FLauffer | SSMS: Using Registered Servers to Manage Servers | UR: "good sum up of functionality with much depiction. Pointing to the benefits of using CMS." Ed Price: "Good. I love the formatting, the use of images, and the See Also reference links!" DRC: "This TechNet Wiki article describes the end-end implementration of Central management server feature (CMS) in SQL. This article demonstrates the CMS feature in SQL 2014. Just to note this feature is available from SQL 2005 onwards. So this feature can be implemented on lower versions of SQL as well. This techNet WIki article is the implementation of below article with the screenshots. This article is very helpful in understanding/implementing the feature. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190631(v=sql.90).aspx" AM: "This one of those feature that most people are not aware of and that can be very handy for a busy DBA." |
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System Center Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Jose R. Esposito | System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM): Device Collection Query by KB Number | MA: "Short, but just to the point, helpful way to manage collection membership." Peter Laker: "The best of the two in my opinion" Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Very useful, but it would be great to have more of a background on the scenario and then a breakdown and explanation of wha the code is doing. And then links to related resources." |
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Adin Ermie | PowerShell Deployment Toolkit (PDT) – Installer.ps1 Fails With “Failed Installing Server Feature Group 1” | Ed Price: "A good set of instructions for this scenario! The directory structure lists are also helpful. It could be improved with section headers, a TOC, and See Also links. The images and conclusion are also very helpful. Great job on this!" Peter Laker: "Thanks Adin, hope it helps someone else" |
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Transact-SQL Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Natig Gurbanov | Sql Server Admnistration :finding blocking process with procedure | Richard Mueller: "Very interesting and possibly very useful code. I still would like links/references, perhaps a "See Also"." Samuel Lester: "Great wrapper around sysprocesses to make it much easier to get the blocking information! Thanks for the article and script!" |
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Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - January 2016 |
This were no medals awarded this month.
The following article is well written and the backend work is nice, but has been flagged as failing the technical bar for correctness for the title issue.
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- BackgroundTranfers; keep the data going by Dave Smits
JH: "Nice and simple. Love it that the app and the backend is shown."
RC: "Server side looks very interesting (but I can't verify correctness). Instead of hacking post processing use the BackgroundTransferCompletionGroup. There's a good overview at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/mt280377.aspx\#post-processing"
- BackgroundTranfers; keep the data going by Dave Smits
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Visual Basic Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Emiliano Musso | Invoke Method to update UI from secondary threads in VB.NET | MR: "Great introduction. I would suggest also mentioning BeginInvoke" Richard Mueller: "A good explanation and example." Carmelo La Monica: "Fantasitc sample Emiliano, very very useful, especially video at the end of page. Good work!" |
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.paul. | OOP BlackJack | MR: "Very fun! It would be great to have more description of the program as well." Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines. A fun project with good code and images." Carmelo La Monica: "Good sample for BlackJack, great content and code. Very famous game." |
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.paul. | Statistical Numeric Collection Extension Functions | Carmelo La Monica: "Great sample Wiki and vb net code. Congrats!"Richard Mueller: "Interesting ideas. Useful code. More explanation and references would help." |
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Visual C# Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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SYEDSHANU | Easy SQL Server Tool using C# | Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic topics, very helpful for users, good imegs and C# code." Jaliya Udagedara: "Good article, has a lot of images and code snippets. Nice thing is sample code is available, so you can run the application and see for yourself." |
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Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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PITUACH | TechNet WIKI Images gallery | Alan Carlos: "Great pictures! Congratulations on your contribution!" Ed Price: "Amazing! This is a great resource for us to grab a different banner to use in things like blog posts! Very helpful!" Richard Mueller: "I love the images. A great collection." |
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Nonki Takahashi | Nonki's Suggestions for TechNet Guru Iconography | Richard Mueller: "Very good "See Also" and "Other Resources". Great images." Ed Price: "What a fun program! Great job on this!!" |
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Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Sergey Vdovin | Project Server: Refresh calculated fields for all projects via PowerShell PSI calls | Richard Mueller: "Good links and references. I like the diagram and the code." Ed Price: "Great introduction and diagram! Great formatting on the code, and I love the Restrictions and Usage section and the Resources and See Also links at the end! It could be improved by breaking down the code more with explanations of what it does. Great article!" |
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Chen V | Create a Sample Script Module to do few tasks in SharePoint Online | Using VS Code PowerShell Extension | Richard Mueller: "Lots of good code. Could use more explanation." Ed Price: "Great topic, Summary, and code formatting! I agree with Richard that this would be clearer if the code was broken down with explanations. Also could use See Also and Other Resources sections at the end. But it's a great collection of snippets!" |
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Andy ONeill | WrapPanel ItemsPanel Last of Line | Ed Price: "Great depth! Love how this builds on itself! Great job on this masterpiece!" Peter Laker: "Nice work as always Andy!" |
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Windows Server Technical Guru - January 2016 |
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Richard Mueller | Active Directory: Find Orphaned Objects | Mark Parris: "Very good knowledge that one needs to know and understand." JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution" |
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Kia Zhi Tang(Ryen Tang) | Nano Server: Viewing Application, Security and System Event Logs using WMI | Alan Carlos: "Great article! Nano Server is the future of distributed computing and resource optimization." JM: "This is a fantastic article, thanks for your contribution!" Mark Parris: "Excellent command line "Kung Fu"." |
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Mahdi Tehrani | Display message to Active Directory users using HTML language and HTA with Group Policy | Mark Parris: "A nice easy way to deliver the MOTD." JM: "Another excellent article, your continued contributions are appreciated" |
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to January's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in February 2016'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
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
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- Anonymous
February 17, 2016
Congrats to all.Thanks for all Judges :) - Anonymous
February 17, 2016
Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks judges. - Anonymous
February 17, 2016
Congratulations to the winners. Thank you, judges and all contributors. :) - Anonymous
February 17, 2016
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
February 17, 2016
Thank You Ed Price - Anonymous
February 18, 2016
Congratulations to all! - Anonymous
February 18, 2016
Congratulations everyone and a big thank you to the judges! - Anonymous
February 19, 2016
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for all the judges!
It's great to share a little of knowledge with the community. - Anonymous
February 20, 2016
Congratulations everyone and a big thank you for all contributors. - Anonymous
February 21, 2016
Congrats to all!
Thanks Pete for sharing! :-) - Anonymous
February 23, 2016
We had a light competition in January, but Nonki beat me fair and square:
Small Basic - Anonymous
February 23, 2016
Hey, thanks & congrats all.
So much learning !! - Anonymous
March 15, 2016
Congratulations!!!!!! - Anonymous
March 20, 2016
Congrats - Anonymous
March 22, 2016
Olá Comunidade TechNet Wiki!!
Meu nome é Alan Carlos e hoje é quarta-feira, dia - Anonymous
July 15, 2016
NOTE: We now have a Skype group that is exclusive to Guru Gold Medal Winners! So if you’ve won a gold medal, but aren’t in the Skype group, please notify me on Skype. My Skype name is “live:edwardnprice”Thanks!