All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2015 !!!!
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.
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.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2015 | ||
| Kjetil Tonstad | BizTalk Server Installation PowerShell Toolkit | Sandro Pereira: "Wow Wow Delightful. A masterpiece for admins and something that developers should learn. Keep the good work Kjetil." Abhishek Kumar: "Kjetil Tonstad thanks for your valuable contribution .Really loved reading it and this article will be a good reference for me as well as community to automate BizTalk Installation process." Ed Price: "The code snippets really make this a powerful article!" SW: "Powershell Toolkit is a valuable resource for a BizTalk Operator. Clean installation is key!" TGN: "Great article, code and references" |
| Suleiman Shakhtour | BizTalk Server: Receiving SAP IDOC Flat File Messages | Ed Price: "From the introduction to the images and explanations... all very well done!" TGN: "I love this, great use if images and explanation. My favourite this month" Sandro Pereira: "The layout of the article had to be revised, different types of lettering, size and so on. You should be more careful. It hinders reading the articles even if they are good, it will make it uninteresting. The content could be improved but still and interest article." SW: "SAP integration can be tedious. This article helps a lot when dealing with SAP." |
| Janardhan Bikka | PowerShell script for creating BizTalk Hosts,Host Instances,Adapter Handlers and custom event log | Abhishek Kumar: "Janardhan Bikka lot of information shared here for automation loving guys in single TechNet Article .We are thankful for your contribution to the community" Ed Price: "Great script! Love to have the sample code available on MSDN Code Gallery as well!" SW: "Valuable script for creating hosts. " Sandro Pereira: "Despite being a different way to do it this is an old topic with a lot of references event inside TechNet Wiki doing the exact same with PowerShell. When you see a topic that already exist, you shouldn’t create a new article, instead you should edit the existent one and add new content and improve it" TGN: "Great script and explanation, but maybe you want to define the database in a string rather then inline code" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- BizTalk Archiving, The BizTalk Way by Johns-305
SW: "Archiving is always an important aspect of any BizTalk environment. Like to solution approach."
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear. Very well formatted! Great setup. Fantastic use of images! "
TGN: "Although BizTalk is not created for archiving the possibility is in there. It is not recommended for production use. however great explanation. Again... do not use DTA tracking database for archiving. Create your own. (you need to know the difference between tracking and archiving)"
Sandro Pereira: "May exist a confusion here between archiving and tracking. I have a complete different opinion and you shouldn't use the tracking features for archiving propose. You can implement archiving without performance impact or limited impacted however unnecessary tracking can deeply affect the performance of your environment especially if you use it as an “archive”"
Abhishek Kumar: "" - A Thread Safe Singleton Cache Helper Class by Mauricio Feijo
Abhishek Kumar: ""
TGN: "nice one, could use some more content though."
Sandro Pereira: ""
SW: ""
Ed Price: "Good scenario and solution!" - BizTalk Troubleshooting: Could not enlist Send Port. Exception from HRESULT: 0xC00CE557 by Mauricio Feijo
TGN: "good tip for people migrating"
Sandro Pereira: "The layout of the article had to be revised but I always like technical and practical articles “Errors and Warnings, Causes, and Solutions” is one of my favorite topics. Nice work."
Abhishek Kumar: ""
Ed Price: "Great to cover these troubleshooting scenarios! Good contribution!"
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Ryan Newington | Providing confirming imports to the sync engine when your target system doesn’t support delta imports | Ed Price: "Wow, that's a long title! =^) -- I appreciate the depth of the narrative and all the inline links help give you a lot more info you can dig deeper in to. Great job on this article!" PG: "Nice system 'hack', would love to see some technical details and step-by-step or a sample/demo of this implementation." |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Chervine | Sentiment Analysis API with Azure Machine Learning | JH: "Nice example and easy to follow. More articles related to the Azure Data Market are appreciated." Ed Price: "Fantastic! Love the diagram and how clear this is!" Alan Carlos: "Excellent!" AS: "Nice article! Thank you for the contribution!" |
| Chilberto | Azure Service Bus Messaging with Queues using Sessions | Ed Price: "Great scenario for Azure Service Bus!" JH: "I see more and more articles about Azure Service Bus. Would love to see even more. This one is nice and simple." AS: "The last code block seems incomplete. It will really be appreciated if you also attach a full project that can just be downloaded and run." |
| Alex Mang | Diagnostic Logs - Get Them Like A Pro | Ed Price: "Good scenario for this one with some powerful information!" JH: "Good article covering the basics. Would love to see an article built-upon this one which shows a little bit of log processing." AS: "Good write. One comment though: logs can also be saved to a table or blob storage, not only locally (ref.: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-monitor/)." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Azure HDInsight on Linux by Chervine
JH: "HDInsight on Linux is great. Love the approach Chervine takes. Also great is mentioning how to access Ambari."
AS: "I would really like to see more explanations about the executed commands, not just screenshots of the results."
Ed Price: "Great scenario and use of images for this! Important to get this documented! " - Wordpress on Azure: Optimizing database by Pooja Baraskar
Ed Price: "Good depth and use of images! Could benefit from Headers and a TOC. This is a common and important scenario!"
JH: "Using Wordpress myself this article is also helpful for my day-to-day life. Great to see articles covering PaaS, where you don't have to fight with the platform itself."
AS: "Nice article. Although not really focusing on the real problem - optimizing WordPress database, the article jumps over too much different problems (i.e. connection issues, subscription issues). " - Windows 10 powered Home Appliances – A new look at Microsoft’s Internet of Things (IoT) by Zain Butt
Ed Price: "Great use of images! Solid Conclusion and great job on the References section!"
JH: "This article misses some technical content. Would be great to cover this from a technical point of view."
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| SYEDSHANU | Group Messaging For Samsung Gear Using MVC Web API And AngularJS | Richard Mueller: "Good images. This article could use a TOC, a "See Also" and "Other Resources" sections to link related references. Was "StudentMasters" another table? Should references to "MessageDetails" be "MessageDetail"?" Ed Price: "Fantastic article! The instructions are incredibly clear and the images really make this shine! Powerful depth on this one!" |
| Alex Mang | ASP.NET and Its Love For WebHooks | Ed Price: "Incredibly useful and valuable scenario with great depth and supporting information! More of a Wiki tone/voice would help. Very important topic! Great job!" Richard Mueller: "Interesting topic. The style of this article is very much like a blog, which should be avoided. Try to avoid first person." |
| Michel Jatoba | Mobile Device Management for Office 365 | Richard Mueller: "An important topic today. Good detailed steps. The images are not English and the grammar can use some work." Ed Price: "This is a great scenario on O365 with good instructions and images! Images in English would help." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Part two: tools for debugging in Visual Studio 2015 by Carmelo La Monica
Richard Mueller: "The images are not in English. The grammar needs work."
Ed Price: "I love it! I love digging deep on the Timeline tool!"
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| John Naguib | Configuring eDiscovery for SharePoint 2013 the complete steps | KB: "Wow! This is a great post! It would be more attractive and even more useful if you add screenshots for the several steps." TN: "" Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Step by step in the SharePoint 2013 configuration is excellent content." Margriet Bruggeman: "Great idea for an article. I'm missing however a clear table of contents." |
| Arleta Wanat | Create a report on SharePoint file versions | Margriet Bruggeman: "This is a to the point article. Good to have some see also links!" Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Fast versions of SharePoint 2013 identification is great to develop applications for this platform. Important point to SharePoint community." KB: "Nice walk through!" TN: "" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Ed Price - MSFT | Microsoft Small Basic 1.2 Release Note | Richard Mueller: "Lots of information and great images. I like the extensive "See Also" section." Michiel Van Hoorn: "Exciting new features and fixes" RZ: "V1.2 is a major release with tons of new features and enhancements. Thanks for this article to highlight them." |
| Nonki Takahashi | Microsoft Small Basic v1.2: Known Issues | RZ: "V1.2 is a major release milestone. But there are a few minor issues. It's good that Nonki wrote this up to document it." Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines." Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good to know your known issues" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Sergey Vdovin | SSAS: Slicing and dicing over data differences between SSAS databases | JS: "Nicely described and detailed wih the references. Nice work!" RB: "Nice walkthroough will definitely try it and to overcome the problems described" PT: "This is a thorough and extensive article with some very useful information about reading data in one SSAS database from another. This is a valuable contribution however I'd recommend updating the title to help readers know about the technique it describes. It's not clear from the title that you are creating an SSAS custom function in C# that will read data in a different SSAS database for comparison." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month but with anonymous negative comments:
- Change the Look & Fill of the Report Manager by Suhas Kudekar
A: "From the title (BTW the way, it should be feel, not fill) only the last part about "Navigate to ReportingServices.css file" is relevant to the topic.. "
B: "not much info about what the title says, not even an example of what to write to change the look and feel"
C: "This post needs some work and contains information that is common knowledge. Please check the spelling of words in the header text. The word "Basic" is misspelled as "Bascic". Also, I think the title should contain the phrase "Look and Feel" rather than "Look & Fill"."
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Yashwant Vishwakarma | SQL Server Logins: Back To Basics | Ed Price: "Great story being told here. The images help a lot! This series could use a TOC and headers in these articles. Good job on this article!" Durval Ramos: "The article is interesting, but need to add Reference links." |
| Yashwant Vishwakarma | SQL Server Authentication Modes: Back To Basics | Ed Price: "Clear instructions. Good use of images! This series could use a grammar pass." Durval Ramos: "I believe this article does not add much knowledge to the TNWiki Community. You must also add links to your references" |
| Yashwant Vishwakarma | SQL Server Users Explained: Back To Basics | Durval Ramos: "This article is an addition to SQL login, you can create a series about this content." Ed Price: "Good use of images and code. There is a lot of content out there on this topic, so it would be good to have an Additional Resources or References section that links to some of it." |
| System Center Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Adin Ermie | Deploying Office365 ProPlus with SCCM Fails to Detect Installation Completed Successfully | Richard Mueller: "Lots of images with detailed step by step instructions." Ed Price: "Wow! Great depth and details on these instructions. The images really bring a ton of clarity to this scenario. This is a valuable troubleshooting scenario. And there's a video too! You can embed YouTube videos directly in the Wiki articles." Alan Carlos: "" |
| Idan Vexler | Query Daylight Saving Time information with SCCM | Richard Mueller: "An interesting query." Ed Price: "A good query. Short and sweet. It could be improved with See Also and Additional Resources sections at the bottom. Good contribution!" Alan Carlos: "" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Anil Kumar | Execute Long Running SQL Statements Asynchronously from .NET | JS: "Please move this to C# instead as not being a TSQL topic." Richard Mueller: "Well done, with a good explanation. Some links to references would help." Durval Ramos: "This article have a good sample and very well detailed with images and source code, but need to add "Reference" and "See Also" sections." Samuel Lester: "Great work! I'd love to see more C# / T-SQL posts!" |
| Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Saad Mahmood | Integrating Dynamics AX with Mobile apps using ASP.NET Web Api | JH: "Love the scenario. Would love to see more articles about it, including a complete code example." Ed Price: "Great scenario! Good quotes from MSDN. Should have a reference source link on those. The table is a very helpful comparison. Good breakdown on the sections." |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Emiliano Musso | Use SqlCommand to process multiple T-SQL statements at once in Visual Basic .NET | MR: "Great nugget of a tip! Thanks for sharing!" Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic topic. Useful for to process multiple T-SQL. Very detailed code. Congrats!" Richard Mueller: "Very useful concepts with good code examples." |
| .paul. | LCM-HCF | Richard Mueller: "Interesting ideas and code. I liked the images." Carmelo La Monica: "Same response for sample on C#Language." |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| SYEDSHANU | Audio, Video and YouTube Video Player in C# Windows Forms | Carmelo La Monica: "Very great content, and very good image an code." Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article explaining the usage of two nice COM components, Windows Media Player and Shockwave Flash Object in a Windows Forms Application. You also can download the sample from the MSDN Code gallery. Great job!" Richard Mueller: "I liked the images." |
| .paul. | LCM-HCF cs | Richard Mueller: "Very interesting code. Good use of Wiki guidelines." Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful for fraction and for Math, congrats." Jaliya Udagedara: "Easy to use Windows Forms Application to calculate Common Multiple and Highest Common Factor. Hint: Why not upload the sample to MSDN Code Gallery?" |
| SYEDSHANU | Master Detail DataGridView C# Winform | Jaliya Udagedara: "Shows some cool capabilities in DataGridView control using a Windows Forms Application and you can download the sample from the MSDN Code gallery and try it out." Richard Mueller: "Basic database concepts used to create a different view of the data. Try to avoid use of first person." Carmelo La Monica: "Great work, useful for to see datail and very good graphics, C# code very organized in all part." |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Andy ONeill | Wiki Governance: Target Microsoft Related Content | Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines. I liked the point about an obscure connection to Microsoft technologies and how readers can be confused." Durval Ramos: "This article helps everyone to improve our TNWiki articles" PG: "Nice additional guidance on the http://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki. We will use this as additional reference. We might need some more examples of go/nogo and borderline cases." |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Curtis Smith | Active Directory Troubleshooting: server has returned the following error - invalid enumeration context | Richard Mueller: "Good detailed troubleshooting steps. This should be very useful. The original Get-ADUser statement got cut off. It would be nice to see the rest, especially what happens after the pipe. Also, once the solution was found, it would be good to repeat the original statement." Chen V: "Excellent article and good presentation" |
| Satyajit321 | PowerShell: Check Exchange Server Active Directory versions | Richard Mueller: "Good information. These scripts (retrieving the value of the rangeUpper attribute of the ms-Exch-Schema-Version-Pt object) should work with all versions since Exchange 2007 (at least)." Chen V: "Well written. References links are helpful! " |
| Arleta Wanat | SharePoint Online SPOMod: Set-SPOFileCheckin | Richard Mueller: "We could use more explanation. For example, I could not find any documentation on "UYYU" and what it means." Chen V: "Good Article! " |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Andy ONeill | WPF: Layout Lab | Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on the subject." Ed Price: "Oh my! I love the depth here, Andy! Great job on code formatting and keeping it interesting. Great read!" KJ: "great and thorough 101 to wpf layout -- nicely done" |
| Tom Mohan | WPF: ValidationRule | Richard Mueller: "Very interesting code. There should be many uses for similar rules." Ed Price: "Great scenario and valuable code! Short and sweet!" KJ: "could be longer but good code snippet" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2015 |
| Richard Mueller | Active Directory: Bad Passwords and Account Lockout | Mark Parris: "Invaluable AD Information" JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your continued contributions" |
| Jefferson Castilho | Hyper -V Replica in Windows Server 2012 R2 | JM: "This is a very good article on Hyper-V Replica that would benefit from an edit pass for clarity" Mark Parris: "Good Hyper-V insight." |
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in November 2015'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
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