The results for March'sTechNet Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Below is a summary of the medal winners, the last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is shown in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Tomasso Groenendijk | Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit | Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!" Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki." TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!" |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue | Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!" TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!" Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful." |
| boatseller | Detecting a Missing Message | Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. " Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!" TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files." |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Eihab Isaac | FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process | Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!" PG: "Nice article, we need more of these." |
| Micah Rowland | FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes Side By Side | PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written" Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!" |
| Giriraj Singh | FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features | Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!" PG: "Short but nice article." |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Matthew Yarlett | SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet | Jinchun Chen: "Good article." Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell you are second to none." This is a great article!" |
| Rahul A Shinde | SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell | Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!" |
| Matthew Yarlett | SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments | Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too." Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window | RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it." Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic Known Issue: 23589 - Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote | RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!" Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Expression | RZ: "Good introduction to expressions" Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Michael Amadi | A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets | NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article" Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!" |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| chandra sekhar pathivada | managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan | Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet." Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors." NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing" DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. " |
| Shanky | Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL Server restart | NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis" DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files " Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!" |
| System Center Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Mr X | How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator | Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!" |
| Idan Vexler | Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM | Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!" |
| Omar Lopez (loplim) | SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login alert ) | Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Jayakumaur (JK) | Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server | Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!" Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL." |
| Durval Ramos | Paging a Query with SQL Server | Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!" Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done." |
| Naomi N | T-SQL: Split String with a Twist | Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution." Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| The Thinker | Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET | SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
way, although the code is simple enough to work through." MR: "Great tool code!" Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!" Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki." |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| João Sousa | ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs | NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery" Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!" |
| Raghunathan S | C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application | Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!" NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format" |
| Raghunathan S | Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C# | NN: "Good article, but too short" Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!" |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Matthew Yarlett | Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr | BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
quality a lot." Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful." PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!" NN: "Good article" |
| Durval Ramos | VBA & VBS Portal | NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit" Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article." PG: "Nice article good start!" BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time." |
| Mr X | Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal | NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals" Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki." PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki." BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors." |
| Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Isham Mohamed | Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch. | Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images." Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!" |
| Ibraheem Osama Mohamed | Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application | Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!" Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners." |
| mcosmin | The Performance Analyzer Paradox | Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. " Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!" |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Magnus (MM8) | WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View | Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!" Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc." |
| dev hedgehog | Trick To Use StaticResource With Path | Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!" Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014 |
| Mr X | How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure | JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise."" JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added" Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution." |
| Mr X | How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM | JH: "excellent, concise, good topic" Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses." JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!" |
| Mahdi Tehrani | Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO | JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time."" JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing" Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help." |
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As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Read all about THIS month's competition [usually in a stickied post] at the top of this forum, otherwise there is usually a list of forum links for this month's theme/announcement at the bottom of the submission page below:
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