All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, March 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.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Johns-305 | BizTalk Server: Detecting a Missing Message or Orchestration, V2 | LG: "It is very deep investigation and advanced implementation. It is very helpful in real-life scenarios." Sandro Pereira: "Good article and another great Solutions, I really prefer to avoid convoys if I can." |
| Eldert Grootenboer | Using static port with dynamic behaviour | Sandro Pereira: "Once again great job Eldert! Excelent tip, well explain and in clearly way. Excellent addition to the TechNet Wiki!" LG: "The article is somehow unclear." |
| Lex Hegt | BizTalk Tracking Cheat Sheet | LG: "It is really unknown feature, discovered by author. Kudos!" Sandro Pereira: "Binding files are now more easy to understand thanks to you Lex. Great article." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Creating Trading Partners In BiztalkServer 2013 Tool by Alok
Sandro Pereira: "That’s another way to do it, nice to know how. Good article. A little suggestion, next time instead of using picture to show the code… add the code in the article."
LG: "The article is interesting, but descriptions are unclear." - BizTalk ESB Management Portal deployment steps in Multi-Server Environment by Abhishek Kumar Pathak
Sandro Pereira: ""
LG: "" - BizTalk: Performance tips for high volume WCF calls by lanax
LG: ""
Sandro Pereira: "Like the article but this is a copy your article “BizTalk Server: Tips for scaling for High Volume WCF calls” with a small improvement. You should update the existing one and not create a replica."
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Jeff Ingalls | FIM2010/MIM2016: How to Bulk Export Connector and Disconnector Status from an AD Domain | PG: "A nice piece of "FIM/MIM bit", quick practical solution for a practical problem. Keep up the good work!" AM: "Great article!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- DirSync: Trigger execution through FIM Worfklow by Nafe Jeries
PG: "By design the normal data sync and the password sync are separate processes. You should not mix them."
Other comments noted by judges: "The solution of this article is a shortcut/bypass of the normal DirSync processes. Which is a violation of best practices."
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - March 2016
| Emiliano Musso | Create Azure Database and use it via C# | JH: "Good introduction on creating, managing and connecting to good old Azure SQL DB." TN: "Good article helping developer working with Azure programmatically" |
| Samir Farhat | Azure IaaS V2 (ARM) Design Series : Azure Subscriptions | JH: "Everyone working with Azure uses a subscription, but do not think about seem more deply. Good overview of Azure subscriptions." TN: "A good read, nice work" |
| Kia Zhi Tang (Ryen Tang) | Microsoft Azure: Deploying Site to Site VPN Connection with Citrix NetScaler CloudBridge | TN: "This article is extremely helpful and provides real-world scenario. " JH: "Nice overview about using the Citrix NetScaler VPX to connect your private cloud to Azure." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Microsoft Azure: Myths vs Facts by Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja
TN: "Needs some references and checking"
JH: "Four myths about Azure. They need some proof-checking their self. Would be good if some resources are added to this article."
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| SYEDSHANU | EASY KIDS LEARN using MVC and AngularJS | Peter Laker: "Great article Syed, some good work this month!" Richard Mueller: "Lots of code and detailed steps. Good use of Wiki guidelines." |
| Santhakumar Munuswamy | Getting Started With Agent SmartWatch Apps | Peter Laker: "Very interesting! Just the kind of thing we love. I'm gonna go try!" Richard Mueller: "Great images. Good detailed steps. Perhaps this could use a TOC." |
| Carmelo La Monica | nternet-of-things-part-3-our-first-application.aspx | Peter Laker: "Great introduction Carmelo, thanks for sharing!" Richard Mueller: "Great images and detailed steps." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- MVC Dynamic Line Chart Using WEB API, AngularJS, and JQuery by SYEDSHANU
Richard Mueller: "Good images and code."
Peter Laker: "As above! :)" - MVC Dynamic Bar Chart using WEB API, AngularJS and JQuery by SYEDSHANU
Richard Mueller: "Good images and code."
Peter Laker: "Nice article! Very clear and detailed"
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2016 |
The only article this month is on hold, while some facts around "Alternate Access Mappings" are checked.
The article will be automatically rolled over to April in the meantime.
| Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Yvan Leduc | How to produce a complete music chord using SoundPlay.Music in Small Basic | DEVA: "Great Music app Yvan :)" Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great, music!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Program | DEVA: "Great Stuff Nonki :)" Michiel Van Hoorn: "Thanks Nonki!" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Greg Deckler | DAX the Language | RB: "Good article" PT: "Both entries this month are fantastic, concise articles on useful DAX applications... and since you submitted both, I don't have to pick a winner! They BOTH win! Greg, thank you for this contribution to the TechNet Wiki. " |
| Greg Deckler | Aggregating Duration/Time in DAX | RB: "Another very good article" PT: "Both entries this month are fantastic, concise articles on useful DAX applications... and since you submitted both, I don't have to pick a winner! They BOTH win! Greg, thank you for this contribution to the TechNet Wiki." |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Chervine | Query Unstructured Data from SQL Server using Polybase | Peter Laker: "An awesome article Chervine, beautifully laid out and illustrated too." AN: "Very nice article!" |
| FLauffer | SQL Server Storage: Checking Volumes Block Sizes | Peter Laker: "Short but concise! Good comment from Shanky re code snippets, would improve it more." AN: "Thanks for the tip!" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Natig Gurbanov | Sql Server:Finding Updated Columns with trigger | Richard Mueller: "Good information to know, but we need some explanation." CA: "Good start" |
| Diegoctn | How to recover views and procedures dropped by mistake> | Richard Mueller: "Great information that can be useful. Good example to demonstrate. Would be good to explain how the code works. Also, avoid first person and try not to write as if it is a blog post." CA: "Also a good start" |
| Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Manuel Cota | How to Use Microsoft's Direct Music Producer to create Music for a UWP Video Game | JH: "Music is something that makes good games great ones. Nice introduction to Microsoft's DirectMusic Producer." BE: "Great article!" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| .paul. | VB.Net OOP Areas and Volumes Calculator | Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful article and very good vb net code. Congrats !" Richard Mueller: "Nicely done, with good use of Wiki guidelines and images." |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Sibeesh Venu | Caching In Web API | Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic topics, very detailed in all parts." AP: "Great article!" |
| Emiliano Musso | Create Azure Database and use it via C# | Carmelo La Monica: "Great work and very useful. Congrats for your sample." AP: "Nice sample Emiliano" |
| Sibeesh Venu | Chart Widgets With Server Side Data In MVC Using Angular JS And Web API | Carmelo La Monica: "Very good sample, images and code, very detailed." AP: "Very nice article!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- ASP.NET Core 1.0 MVC 6 using WEB API and AngularJs by SYEDSHANU
Carmelo La Monica: "Congrats, article very useful for to learn MVC and WEB API." - Web API With HttpClient Or Consume Web API From Console Application by Sibeesh Venu
Carmelo La Monica: "Nice job, detailed with images, with C#and Sql code." - Fix To No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is present Or Working With Cross Origin Request In Asp Net Web API by Sibeesh Venu
Carmelo La Monica: "I don't know Asp Net, but wit this sample i don't have any difficult for to understand. Very nice work."
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Richard Mueller | Wiki: Glossary of Acronyms Specific to Microsoft | Peter Laker: "A very useful list, thank you Richard!" AN: "Great article!" |
| Ed Price - MSFT | Excel Portal | Peter Laker: "A great jumping in point, worth a bookmark! Thanks Ed!" AN: "Thanks Edwardo!" |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| VGSandz | Windows Auto Logon with PowerShell | Jan Egil Ring: "Thanks VGS" Alan Carlos: "Nice article! Congrats!" Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines. Good code examples. We can use some links to references." |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2016 |
| Nathanaël Stassart | Build a SharePoint Server 2016 Reference Image (Sysprep) | JM: "This is a thorough, well presented and excellent article on SharePoint server deployment. Thanks for your contribution" Mark Parris: "Good Reference article." Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article!" Richard Mueller: "Very detailed steps and recommendations. The images help. Grammar needs work." |
| Kia Zhi Tang (Ryen Tang) | Nano Server: Deploying ASP.NET 5 site on Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server | JM: "This article on deploying an ASP.NET site on IIS in Nano server is excellent! Thanks for your contribution" Mark Parris: "Nice Nano Server article, the library of information is growing." Alan Carlos: "" Richard Mueller: "Detailed steps with PowerShell code. Good use of Wiki guidelines, but the "See Also" should be links to other Wiki articles." |
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to March's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in April's 2014'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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