August 2016 TechNet Guru Winners!

All the votes are in! (Just before the lock down!)

And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, August 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 – August 2016

	Johns-305	BizTalk: Simplify BizTalk Dev by Using the Empty Namespace	Peter Laker: “Excellent article! Indepth and informative.” Ronen Ariely: “It’s very nice post, but it is written like personal blog and not like shared article. Conclusions or Summary could help. It miss the section of “also see” where links to more information can be added.”
	Chilberto	On-premises BizTalk integration with Azure File Storage	Ronen Ariely: “Very nice and well written. I love the option to download the project.” Peter Laker: “A great solution article about this problem.”
	lanax	BizTalk: Demystify dependency on Enterprise SSO	Ronen Ariely: “very nice article, well written and well formatted.” Peter Laker: “A nice single-signon article, thanks lanax.”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Decouple BizTalk Transformation logic From The BizTalk Solution by Pushpendra
  Peter Laker: “Good use of an XSL file.”
  Ronen Ariely: “Nice post. It’s missing the TOC and closer. There is no Conclusions or Summary and it miss the section of “also see” where links to more information can be added. Source Code to download could add a lot.”
• ESB Toolkit 2.1 and Enterprise Library 5.0 by Mandar Dharmadhikari
  Ronen Ariely: “Nice post. There is place for improvement. The post written like a personal blog brings a personal story instead of shared article which brings case study.”
  Peter Laker: “Great problem/solution”
• Salesforce disabling SSL 1.0, How to make Salesforce API calls for SSL 1.1, 1.2 via BizTalk 2013 R2 by Pi_Xel_Xar
  Peter Laker: “Nice tip!”
  Ronen Ariely: “Needs more work”

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru – August 2016

	Peter Geelen	FIM/MIM Forum: How to get the maximum return on your forum question?	Peter Laker: “Great article Peter, top marks.”
	AnirbanSingha	FIM 2010 : ECMA 2.0 Connector XML	Peter Laker: “Useful code dump, thanks Anirban”
	Wim Beck	MIM2016 Troubleshooting: MIM Portal Performance Issue	Peter Laker: “Nice solution!”

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru – August 2016

	Kia Zhi Tang (Ryen Tang)	Microsoft Azure: Managing Nano Server with Server Management Tools	Nicolas Bonnet: “Best so far” JH: “Extensive article about running a Nano Server on Azure. Provides good code snippets for working with Nano Server via PowerShell.” AS: “Overall nice article, but a bit too much content for my taste – how to create resource group, virtual network, etc. is in my opinion not core subject of that article.”
	Chilberto	Faking out Azure – Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes	JH: “Nice article for testing Azure dependencies in an application.” AS: “Nice, compact, straight to the point!” Nicolas Bonnet: “Very nice”
	Bhushan Gawale	Azure Active Directory Domain Services for Beginners	Nicolas Bonnet: “Nice” JH: “AD Domain Services are a central component of every infrastructure. This article contains a nice walkthrough about AD DS running in Azure.” AS: “Needs more work”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Microsoft Azure: Point-to-Site VPN configuration for existing Vnet by Shijimol A.K
  AN: “The article is very basic, missing formatting and is more confusing than the original documentation provided by Microsoft”
  Nicolas Bonnet: “Nice”
  JH: “Short intro about Point to site VPNs in Azure. A little bit more details would be great.”

	Dileepa Kariyawasam	Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection – Introduction and Step by Step Deployment Guide	Richard Mueller: “A good article. The links in the “See Also” are not Wiki articles, so they should be in the “References” section.”
	Sandeep Shekhawat	Form Submit using Ajax in ASP.NET MVC	Richard Mueller: “Good use of the Wiki guidelines.”
	SYED SHANU	ASP.NET Core1.0 Insert/Select to Database Using Angular2 and WEB API	Richard Mueller: “Grammar can be improved.”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• O365 – SharePoint Online: Alpaca JS based Apps development by Amjad Khan SharePoint
  Richard Mueller: “Good code example.”
• Create identity in simple way using ASP.NET MVC 5 by M.Vignesh
  Richard Mueller: “Good code and images. Grammar and spelling need work.”
• Windows 10 Troubleshooting: 100 procent disk usage by Peter Geelen
  Richard Mueller: “Great troubleshooting hints. We can use more explanation.”
• Time Zone Calculator by Sibeesh Venu
  Richard Mueller: “Interesting. Grammar can be improved, and try to avoid the use of first person.”
• O365 -SharePoint Online: step by step creating Content Editor webpart and associate with HTML by Amjad Khan SharePoint
  Richard Mueller: “I need more explanation.”

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru – August 2016

	Geetanjali Arora	SharePoint Online: Site Collection Provisioning using Azure AD Apps	John Naguib: “Excellent one, thanks for talking about this topic” Ronen Ariely: “Very Nice and well formatted article, well written, and even include the option to download the solution from TechNet Gallery. Well done. “
	Dan Christian	PowerApps and Flow with SharePoint on-premises	John Naguib: “very nice, thanks for talking about this new topic” Ronen Ariely: “Very nice article. I love that there is a video embedded into the article.”
	Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013)	SharePoint 2016 Visio Service Application, Step By Step Guide	John Naguib: “Nice, thanks for collecting this” Ronen Ariely: “Nice”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint 2016 – Troubleshooting – Error during decryption – Ensure the passphrase is correct by Waqas Sarwar(MCSE 2013)
  John Naguib: “Thanks”
  Ronen Ariely: “”

Small Basic Technical Guru – August 2016

Nonki Takahashi

Small Basic Sample: Small DOS

DEVA: “I like it. Wonderful work Nonki!!” Michiel Van Hoorn: “Great article from Nonki. Demonstrates Smallbasic’s hidden gems”

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru – August 2016

	Uwe Ricken	SQL Server: Inside a DELETE operation in Heaps	Ronen Ariely: “Great article! Very interesting and important topic. I definitely recommend to read this article!”
	Prashanth Jayaram	Parameter(s) Passing – SQL script -Using- Batch File[sqlcmd]/PowerShell[Invoke-sqlcmd]	Ronen Ariely: “Very nice solution. Article well formatted, well done! It’s good idea to add comment about vulnerability to sql injection”

System Center Technical Guru – August 2016

sridhar vishwanatham

SCOM Monitor/Rule UTC time Zone Scheduler

Peter Laker: “Winner!”

Visual Basic Technical Guru – August 2016

Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja

Integrating Web Services/JSON API in UWP App

Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines, but avoid first person. References and a See Also would be useful.”

Visual C# Technical Guru – August 2016

	Sandeep Shekhawat	Code First Migrations in Entity Framework	Carmelo La Monica: “Another good article and contents with Entity framework.” Ronen Ariely: “Very good article, important issue, which is raised in the forum a lot. I loved the basic architecture of the solution. I am not sure that I would separate the data classes from the mapping in such a project, but definitely I like that the Model separate from the View (console app in this case). I think that there was place to mention the architecture as a comment in the introduction.” Jaliya Udagedara: “Good use of code snippets and images. Would have been better if more details were included about Code First Migrations.”
	Sabah Shariq	CRUD Operation in Elasticsearch using C# and NEST	Jaliya Udagedara: “Nice article demonstrating how you can use NEST (.NET client for Elasticsearch) for CRUD operations on Elasticsearch using C#.” Carmelo La Monica: “Great contents and code, good for to learn Elasticsearch with C#and NEST.” Ronen Ariely: “Well formatted, well written. great article!”
	Sibeesh Venu	Working With Test Client In Asp Net Web API Help Page	Jaliya Udagedara: “Shows how you can use WebApiTestClient nuget package to test Web API actions within Web API help pages. Interesting!” Carmelo La Monica: “Good topic, code and Images. It can also to benefit to the table contents.” Ronen Ariely: “This is very nice topic. The article uses external images, which is not acceptable in the WIKI. First of all the WIKI is a shared article. This mean any contact should be part of the article, under the article licence, and not in external website. Moreover, using images in external website creates dependency in external resources. Please read this and this.

Windows PowerShell Technical Guru – August 2016

	Maor Bracha	[Tool] SafetyNet – Keep Office 365 Mailbox when removing AD-Synced user	Jan Egil Ring: “Very Nice” Richard Mueller: “Great to link a Gallery script. Good images.”
	Prashanth Jayaram	PoSH-Extending-Modules-illustrate- System-Parameter-Measurement	Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines. I like the References. Well explained.” Jan Egil Ring: “Good work”

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru – August 2016

Magnus (MM8)

WPF/MVVM: Handling a MouseWheel Event In The ViewModel

LL: “Nice” Peter Laker: “Winner!”

• A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to December’s competition.
• Hopefully we will see you ALL again in September 2016’s listings, which CLOSE TOMORROW!Best regards,
  Pete Laker

  (and Azure MVP)

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