TechNet Guru Winners - Dec 2018 - 02/02 is Double Delight Day!

Double Delight Day! The weekly Top Contributors Awards AND Monthly TechNet Guru Winners! So much given and so much appreciated. Give and take by so many, for so long!

So here is... the last set of Gurus for 2018!!
Updates and announcements coming soon...

All the votes (for December) are [finally] in!

Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, December 2018 !!!!

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.

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.

	AnkitSharma007	Blazor: Creating A Reusable Grid Component	Jeff Fritz: "Great content! Love the animated GIFs to demo the interactions with the grid"Sabah Shariq: "Good use of the wiki article format."
	HansamaliGamage	Angular 6 : Input restrictions in a form	Jeff Fritz: "Article is not complete. Images are small and low resolution."Sabah Shariq: "Nice."

	Thuyavan Ganesan	HOW MICROSOFT O365 COULD EMPOWER YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIO	Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Great article! Well formatted and useful content. Well done! and congrats for being one of two first articles in the o365 new category"
	Arleta Wanat	Office 365 data loss protection: Prevent your SharePoint list from deletion using Powershell	Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Thanks for sharing. Great start for the new Category. The content should be wrapped in the a TN Wiki article structure template and some improvement sections are missions like "See Also" with some links, closer like conclusion, and so on. With that being said it is the first month for o365 and the future is open for new authors"

	George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos	Azure Bot Framework: Introduction to Azure Bot Service and QnA Make	Eric Berg: "Well done and well structured. Thank you!"
	Mandar Dharmadhikari	BotFramework: Image Processing Bot using MS Bot Framework and Computer Vision SDK	Eric Berg: "Good read. Nice example."
	Subhro Majumder	Managed Identities for Azure Resources : Introduction	Eric Berg: "Nice information."

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Bot Framework: How to Read Data on Action Buttons of Adaptive Cards in a Chat Bot by Mandar Dharmadhikari
  Eric Berg: "Well done. Thank you!"
• Azure Storage : Introduction by Subhro Majumder
  Eric Berg: "Good article. Thank you!"

	Arleta Wanat	Office Online Server Troubleshooting in SharePoint environment	DEVA: "Nice work!"Lasse Wedø: "This was a good read, thanks!"
	Rajeesh Menoth	Angular 6 : Getting Started Using Angular CLI - Part Two	Lasse Wedø: "Excellent into. Want more!"DEVA: "Nice work, thanks Rajeesh!"
	Rajeesh Menoth	Angular 6 : Getting Started Using Angular CLI - Part One	DEVA: "Good read"Lasse Wedø: "This is a great set of articles."

	Ramakrishnan Raman	An introduction to Isolated SharePoint Framework (SPFx) webpart	Margriet Bruggeman: "Very complete article."John Naguib: "Thanks for sharing nice wiki"Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great Article, thanks for sharing your awesome knowledge in WIKI."
	Arleta Wanat	SharePoint: Easy way to create ViewXML	John Naguib: "Wonderful, thanks for sharing"Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great Article, thanks for sharing your awesome knowledge in WIKI."Margriet Bruggeman: "Interesting, to the point article."
	Waqas Sarwar	SharePoint 2016 Configuration Database Size Issue Due To Timer Job History	Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice to read article, very interesting."Mohamed El-Qassas: "Simple and Helpful, thanks for sharing your awesome knowledge in WIKI."John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for the effort"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint 2016 Troubleshooting: Mobile View Not Working On Mobile Devices by Waqas Sarwar(MVP)
  John Naguib: "Thanks for the tip"
  Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great Article, thanks for sharing your awesome knowledge in WIKI"
• How do you handle Very Large Documents - Microsoft SharePoint Solution by Thuyavan Ganesan
  John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for the effort"
  Mohamed El-Qassas: "Good Article, thanks for sharing your awesome knowledge in WIKI"
  Margriet Bruggeman: "This is an article about a problem many of us encounter. Good solution but what to do if I want to print the whole document?"

Nonki Takahashi

Small Basic Known Issue: 52240 - Zoomed Triangle Position to Move is Different in Remote

SYEDSHANU: "Great to see the workaround example for Zoomed Triangle position move,Thanks for sharing Nonki"DEVA: "Great work!!"

Av111

install mssqlon ubantu

Visakh16: "A step by step article on how to install MS SQL on Ubuntu"Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Nice Article. It adds some value to the official document, by putting relevant information in one place. But, the article is not well formatted and I think that there is place to add some more explanation between the code sections. Images could make a different and missing here. The code and the result returned from the system use the same format which is confusing."

	.paul. _	VB.Net - Random Maze Games	SYEDSHANU: "Great Maze game paul which also has three level for playing ,Code part bit more explanation needed,Great to see the Source code available for download"
	Karen Payne	Database selective connection strings	SYEDSHANU: "Very Useful post Karen ,Great to see the detail explanation with source code,,Thanks for sharing"
	Karen Payne	Secure connection string for Windows Forms (VB.NET)	SYEDSHANU: "One more great article which explains about securing connection string by encrypt and decrypt,Thanks for sharing Karen."

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• VB.NET My.Settings deep dive by Karen Payne
  SYEDSHANU: "Good article which explains in detail about VB.NET My.Settings Thanks for sharing Karen."

	Karen Payne	C# Working with SQL-Server time type in Windows forms	DEVA: "Thanks Karen, good piece"Jaliya Udagedara: "A very helpful article targeting a common requirement."
	Karen Payne	Basic operations: Open XML SDK 2.5 Office Word documents	DEVA: "Excellent work"Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Nice explanation to Open XML and it's use."
	Karen Payne	Extension methods (C#)	DEVA: "Good read, nice and clear"Jaliya Udagedara: "In detail article about Extension Methods. Love it!"

	[Kamlesh Kumar]	Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule - 2019	DEVA: "Good job Kamlesh"Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "An Important tool which the TechNet Wiki bloggers team use on a daily bases. Thanks for creating the Schedule for 2019"
	[Kamlesh Kumar]	Forum Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule - 2019	DEVA: "Thanks"Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "An Important tool which the MSDN bloggers team use on a daily bases. Thanks for creating the Schedule for 2019"

Arleta Wanat

Powershell in SharePoint: Disable comments on modern pages in entire site using CSOM

Jan Egil Ring: "Useful tip, thanks Arleta"Joseph Moody: "Good tip, thanks"

Richard Mueller

Active Directory: User Principal Name

Eric Berg: "Thank you!"Mark Parris: "Critically important information for organisations moving towards cloud delivered authentication."Joseph Moody: "Richard, this is a fantastic article!! I will be sure to point people to this resource!"

A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.

We're running late, so January is already closed, but if you think you can do just as good (or better) here's your chance !

Best regards,
Pete Laker

More about the TechNet Guru Awards:

• TechNet Guru Competitions