The Microsoft TechNet Guru Awards (January 2019)

All the votes (for January) are in!

Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, January 2019 !!!!

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.

	SyedShanu	Getting Started with Angular 7 And ASP.NET Core 2.1	Jaliya Udagedara: "This is an excellent article for beginners. Great step by step explanations."Sabah Shariq: "Awesome start of the guru competition with great article describing technicalities in details with step by step details."
	AnkitSharma007	Blazor: Publishing A Reusable Component To Nuget Gallery	Jaliya Udagedara: "Another great article showcasing a nice feature of Blazor."Sabah Shariq: "Nice but for guru competition it would be great if the article contains a level up technicalities description in details rather then straight forward content."

Priyaranjan KS

SharePoint Server 2019: Working with Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1

Peter Geelen: "Very nice article! Well done!"Lasse Wedø: "Very good contribution"

Priyaranjan KS

Office 365 : Auto Provision Site Assets in SharePoint Online using PnP Provisioning Templates,Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions

John Naguib: "Nice one, thanks for sharing well done"Mohamed El-Qassas: "Awesome article as usual PriyaranjanKS ?, Well organized and Valuable detailed content.Just a bit note, I love to see "back to the top" link at the end of the article, I think it would be helpful!"

	Pete Laker	Azure Speech Services and Windows 10: Transcribe video, make custom voices and subtitles	Tomaž Kaštrun: "Comprehensive explanation on Azure Speech service and step by step explanations, supporting the Azure developer meetup clips."Eric Berg: "good stuff"
	Dave Rendón	Migrating VHD to Azure using PowerShell ARM 5.x	Tomaž Kaštrun: "Great combination of Azure, Powershell and VHD and how to move VHD file to Azure and create Virtual Machine."Eric Berg: "Very useful"
	George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos	Azure Compute: Introduction To Azure Batch	Tomaž Kaštrun: "Step by step using azure batch."Eric Berg: "Nice intro"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Azure Databases: Introduction To SQL Managed Instances by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Explanation to SQL Managed instances and providing in-depth step by step and pricing."
• Azure Kubernetes Service Storage Provisioning by Kasun Rajapakse
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Using Kubernetes for provisioning storage. A nice step by step tutorial."
  Eric Berg: "thanks"
• Help Desk System implementation using Bot Framework,Cognitive Sentiment Analysis with SharePoint Online,Flow as Back end and Microsoft Teams,Skype,Slack,Facebook Channels by Priyaranjan KS
  Eric Berg: "well done. thanks"
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Setting up a helpdesk system with Sharepoint backend."
• Build a Facebook Messenger chat using Azure Bot Service by Suthahar 
  Eric Berg: "good article"
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Building facebook messenger using Azure Bot Service in step by step"
• Azure Key Vault: Overview by Subhro Majumder
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Overview on azure Key vault.A very nice wiki post."

	Miscellaneous Technical Guru - January 2019
	Jayendran Arumugam	AzureDevOps: Deploying Secrets from Azure Pipelines	Peter Geelen: "Nice article!"Lasse Wedø: "My choice this month, thanks Jay"
	Priyaranjan KS	Build a Mobile Power App for Visitor Registration using Microsoft Flow	Peter Geelen: "Nice idea!, Well done!"Lasse Wedø: "Good piece"

Priyaranjan KS

SharePoint 2019: Setup Multi Server Farm in Azure with AD, Identity Services and Min Roles

John Naguib: "Well structured thanks for sharing"Mohamed El-Qassas: "Awesome article PriyaranjanKS ?, Well organized and Valuable detailed content. Thanks a lot for sharing this great content in the WIKI."Tiago Costa: "AMAZING article!!! One of the best and more descriptive articles I had the opportunity to evaluate at TechNet Wiki Guru. Congratulations for the complete article."

Nonki Takahashi

Microsoft Small Basic Online v0.91: Known Issues

SYEDSHANU: "Great Article and thank you for listing all the known issues of Small Basic Nonki"

Priyaranjan KS

Power BI : Create Business Intelligence Reports from PDF Data Source using Microsoft R Open

Tomaž Kaštrun: "Step by step presentation of reading PDF data in Power BI and creating R visual graph."Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Awesome topic using PDF as a Data Source for Power BI. It can be very extremely useful! This article brings us a long tutorial step-by-step. It is well written but missing "See Also", which is important paragraph in the TechNet Wiki. It gives the readers links to read next, and it serves as a glue between the individual articles and makes them a single Wiki. Great work Priyaranjan"

	AV111	SQL Server on Linux: Troubleshooting	Tomaž Kaštrun: "Nice couple of troubleshooting points for SQL Server on Linux."Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Very nice topic which can be very useful as general Troubleshooting, but for this we need to cover more scenarios. As a start point this is great. Probably in time, of users will use the power of the Wiki then this article can become powerful. adding a"see also" section with links to other cases can also help to cover what users looks for."Peter Geelen: "Very nice to read, well structured!"
	George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos	SQL Server on Azure VM : Can't Access The SQL Server Configuration Page From The Portal	Peter Geelen: "Well done, nice article!"Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Very interesting scenario of error using the Azure Portal To monitor SQL Server on VM. The article explains the solution well. A Step-by-step reproduce the issue could improve the article and give a better starting point than starting with the error. This article can be VERY useful. Thanks for sharing it."Tomaž Kaštrun: "Solving access to Configuration page from Azure. A detailed tutorial."
	AV111	SQL Server Troubleshooting: Logon failure - the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer	Peter Geelen: "Nice!"Tomaž Kaštrun: "Solving Logon failure - a nice step by step primer."Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Nice Article, Which covers troubleshooting of a specific scenario. Well written. Well done!"

	Dujon Walsham	SCOM Management Pack Creator V2.0 Released	Adam Fowler: "Good to see maintenance on existing scripts"Joseph Moody: "I appreciate the notes for this update."
	Leon Laude	DPM: Step-by-Step How to protect a folder with PowerShell	Joseph Moody: "Great step by step guide! Your edits to the pictures were very helpful!"Adam Fowler: "Good writeup, would like to see an explanation of why we're doing this certain function."
	Dujon Walsham	SCSM: Management and CMDB for Linux Devices via Import Software Inventory from SCCM	Joseph Moody: "If you can, import a few screenshots - good guide!"Adam Fowler: "Great info, a few screenshots would be nice"

SathyanarrayananS

SQL Server Import/Export to CSV using R script

Tomaž Kaštrun: "Absolutely great script for exporting and importing multiple CSV files from or to SQL Server."Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Awesome article. The idea of using R in order to import & export CSV files might be useful in some cases that we need to parse the data during the action and use the power of R in data analysis. The code is very long and I think that there is place to add some comments in the SP code. The article is well written but missing "See Also", which is important paragraph. Well done Sathyanarrayanan"

	by Karen Payne	Best practices working with MS-Access with VB.NET Part 1	SYEDSHANU: "Great series of article Karen ,Part 1 explained in deeply with example on MS-Access and VB.NET: Best ,Thank you for sharing."Pete Laker: "Loving this one best, thanks Karen"
	by Karen Payne	Best practices working with MS-Access with VB.NET Part 2	SYEDSHANU: "Great series of article Karen ,In part 2 it will be more good of adding few output images with explanation of each part part ,Thank you for sharing."Peter Laker: "Thanks K"
	Karen Payne	Best practices working with MS-Access with VB.NET Part 3	SYEDSHANU: "Great series of article Karen ,In part 3 great to see Master Detailed relation and DataGridview filter function for VB.NET using MS Access ,Thank you for sharing."Peter Laker: "Great to see your passion for a vital language in the MS ecosystem"

Karen Payne

Working with T-SQL MERGE statement (C#)

Jaliya Udagedara: "Good article."Peter Laker: "Thank Karen. A nice tip for the value vaults"

	Priyaranjan KS	Azure: Create Runbook and add Schedules using PowerShell	Joseph Moody: "This is an excellent submission! Great use of screenshots as well."Adam Fowler: "Great details, diagrams and screenshots."Kia Zhi Tang: "Nicely documented with screenshots as walkthrough. Thank you for your contribution."
	Mr X	PowerShell: How to identify active hosts in your networks and perform horizontal TCP port scans	Joseph Moody: "Very useful script! I'll certainly use this one in the future!"Kia Zhi Tang: "One of the way to check for any active hosts on TCP. Do you happen to have an UDP one? Thank you for your contribution."Adam Fowler: "Good details, but needs examples of being used."
	Siva Padala	Ping and report list of IP addresses	Adam Fowler: "Simple and nice, would be good to see an output of the results."Kia Zhi Tang: "This is useful if your environment allows ICMP traffics. Thank you for your contribution."Joseph Moody: "Good walkthrough! I would like to see a few screenshots or some additional details in future submissions, if possible."

	C Sharp Conner	Security Blindspots of Active Directory - Domain Local Memberships	Eric Berg: "thank you. well done"Mark Parris: "Interesting information"Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for your contribution. Wiki article should be written in third person perspective and blog should is written in first person perspective. The article looks like a blog post to me."
	Dokoh (Clément BETACORNE)	Active Directory domain join On Premises, Azure and Hybrid (Part 1)	Mark Parris: "Good information for a constantly evolving hybrid computing environment."Eric Berg: "thanks"Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for your contribution. Hope to see your part 2 and please remember to add your part 2 wiki link to the See Also section in this wiki and vice-verse."
	Priyaranjan KS	Windows Server 2019 : Configure Active Directory Domain Services and Set it as DNS within Azure Virtual Network	Kia Zhi Tang: "Nicely written with screenshots. It will be good to add some Azure Virtual Network docs in reference section. Thank you for your contribution."Robert Smit: "good addon would be show the DNS mmc and configure the DNS zones."Eric Berg: "good read"Mark Parris: "Good insights."

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Windows : Install RDS To A Server 2016 by George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos
  Kia Zhi Tang: "Great walkthrough with screenshots. Any Microsoft links should be under reference section and any wiki links should be under See Also section. Thank you for your contribution."
  Mark Parris: "Insights as to how to install RDS via the UI, would be good to get the PowerShell syntax for scripting this."
  Robert Smit: "when doing this its a longer version that this. setting this up RDS /GW /CB /highavailable etc, Think post is a good start."
  Eric Berg: "thanks"

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

Best regards,
Pete Laker

More about the TechNet Guru Awards:

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