The results for August's TechNet Guru competition have been posted!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for August 2014!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Post your September contributions here:
Read all about September's competition, hopefully in a stickied post, at the top of this forum.
Below is a summary of the medal winners for August. 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 available on TechNet Wiki.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Sandro Pereira | BizTalk Server 2010: Step-by-Step to implement Unit Testing in Schemas and Maps | Ed Price: "Fantastic detail on this step-by-step guide! Great job on the code commenting!" Mandi Ohlinger: "Unit Testing - Long overdue. Another great addition from Sandro!" |
| Tord G. Nordahl | BizTalk Server: Debatching XML with envelope | Mandi Ohlinger: "Can I get tea instead of coffee?! Well-explained from one of the best BizTalk Admins. " Ed Price: "This is incredibly straightforward and very helpful!" |
| Johns-305 [boatseller] | BizTalk: Deploying Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk Server 2006 and Higher | Mandi Ohlinger: "John - you make it look so easy. Thank you for posting this topic!" Ed Price: "I love how you start off with the Confusion section. Fantastic article!" |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Ike Ugochuku | FIM 2010 R2: Metaverse Attribute Flow Precedence and dealing with Blank values | Ed Price: "Ike, good article! I like the concept of the Case Story, Solution Requirement, and Solution Design! Could benefit from a little more explanation of the code and from a See Also section. Great approach to this
article!" PG: "This is an unnecessary complex procedure to solve the null import flow. THe issue can be simply solved in a 2 step solution with even less code. More details in comment added to article. " |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Alex Mang | Azure Search Client Library for .NET Framework | JH: "Two words: Love it! Outstanding article about an awesome service." Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations of the goals and code! Great article!" |
| Manuel Meyer | How to Set up the Adventureworks Database on Azure Sql in a Couple of Minutes | JH: "Good work for a first article on TN Wiki." Ed Price: "Great How-To article with helpful images!" |
| Abdul Rehman Aftab | Server Side Validation & Modification in Microsoft Azure Mobile Services | Ed Price: "Good descriptions. Please make sure you're not just writing a new version of existing documentation. We want to see your own personal experiences. Thanks for the contribution!" |
| Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Dan Christian | Build Visio 2013 diagram for SharePoint Online | Ed Price: "Another astonishing article from Dan! The visuals tell the story in a clear and engaging way, and every step is described and explained! To top it off, Dan shows it all to you in two videos! Legendary article!" AH: "Its really good article where each step is explained and screenshots are provided, Good amount of details are provided and even has references to the tutorial videos. Pretty good." GO: "This article has already been judged in the SharePoint section" |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| saramgsilva | Creating framework documentation with Ghostdoc | Ed Price: "Great extension exploration from Sara! Good use of images!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good article that show how to create documentation using GhostDoc." TGN: "I have never heare of GhostDoc before, I wonder why. This tool rocks, and so does the article too." Richard Mueller: "Helpful links, but the "See Also" should have links to Wiki articles." |
| Brian Nadjiwon | How to add a Powershell GUI event handler with parameters | Richard Mueller: "Very well explained. Needs a See Also and/or References." Ed Price: "Great image and explanations from this one in the series that also covers praameters. Could benefit from code formatting and more of an explanation of what the code's doing. Good job!" TGN: "great mashup. and great additions to the TN Wiki" Margriet Bruggeman: "" |
| Ike Ugochuku | PowerShell Scripting: Using and querying Datasets directly in PowerShell | Ed Price: "Good code snippet and code formatting! Could benefit from a third person voice (less personal), more explaining the code, and a See Also section. It's a helpful addition to our TechNet Wiki community library!" Margriet Bruggeman: "I was just looking for something like this! Great article!" TGN: "nice addition, good work." Richard Mueller: "First person should be avoided. Would it help to use Csv cmdlets?" |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Geetanjali Arora | Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App | Margriet Bruggeman: "Enormous detailed article!! A good step by step guide!" Ed Price: "Great article with visual imagery! Great troubleshooting steps!" GO: "WOW! Great article. This article has the 3 "C" in one. Clear, clever and clean. Well done!" |
| Dan Christian | SharePoint Online with Visio Services | GO: "This is absolutely the gold medal winner! Thank you Dan, for this great article..!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Good walkthrough for getting started with Viso Services." Ed Price: "Incredible article! Great use of images and video!" |
| Vipul Kelkar | SharePoint 2013/Office 365 : Working with Result Sources to limit search results. | Margriet Bruggeman: "Very interesting article, gonna try that one out myself." Ed Price: "Very good article! Good descriptions! Could benefit from a See Also section. Great job!" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: How to Use MSDN Forum | Ed Price: "I love it! This is a fantastically thorough overview of using the Small Basic forum! Great job!" Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is a excellent post by Nonki and a very usefull introduction for beginners to use the MSDN forum. Really good guidance." |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Visakh16 | Import SSIS2012 Project From Catalog Using T-SQL Script | Ed Price: "Great formatting on code and images. Great descriptions! Could benefit from a TOC and a See Also section. Great job!" PT: "Thank you for a very useful post on this newer feature. I think others will benefit from this information. The language and graphics are a little rough and can use some polish but the information is very good." RB: "Great explanation that could be the starting point for some automation" |
| Jan D'Hondt | SSIS 2012 new REPLACENULL function | Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Good example. Could use more explanation and a See Also section." |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Andy O'Neill | SQL General: Pragmatic Denormalisation | DRC: "This is a very nice article and can be published It discusses about DE normalization which is very much implement in real time scenarios It also provides various reasons why we should consider denormalization.
Explanations provided are good but feels little complicated in few part of article (Level 300) " AM: "Nice article but lacks of examples about why denormalization is handy in certain cases." GO: "One of the clearest article on the WIKI. That great. Thank you!" Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions! To quote Samuel from the comments: "Great content and deep examples!" It could benefit from a See Also section. This is a great article!" |
| Durval Ramos | Freezing a Table on SQL Server | GO: "I have been always a huge lover from SQL server. Especially if it comes from Durval Ramos! Thanks buddy! Well written." Ed Price: "I love the code formatting! The images help a lot. And it's a very useful and practical topic with good depth! The References section helps! And it even has a Portuguese version!" Samuel Lester: "" AM: "I suggest incorporating new features like partitioning to raise the level of the article." DRC: "This article provides details about READ-ONLY filegroup" |
| Ike Ugochuku | SQL GENERAL: Select records from one table based on fields in another table | AM: "It would be helpful having table schema and sample data to be able to compare to other solutions. Also, how does it compare to a simple query using NOT EXISTS and OR operators." GO: "Well written! Thanks" Ed Price: "Short and sweet! It could benefit from a See Also section that points to other Wiki articles. Good case overview and code formatting!" |
| System Center Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Nathan Foreman | Integrating a CMDB with Operations Manager | Ed Price: "Nice article! It's got a download, a whole lot of depth, good code formatting, and some helpful images! Great job!" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Ronen Ariely | Transact-SQL: Return DBCC output in a View | Jinchun Chen: "Nice. Sometimes, it is asked to include DBCC result in a SP's return result." JS: "Nicely formatted article with a very good coemmnts section within the code. Very helpful for many people." Ed Price: "Great topic, descriptions, code formatting, code commenting, and the resources section is astounding! As Saeid says in the comments: "Great content and deep examples!" Amazing article!" Richard Mueller: "Excellent references, well formated code with comments" |
| Durval Ramos | Adding work days using T-SQL | Richard Mueller: "Excellent article with code and references. Try to avoid using firsst person." Jinchun Chen: "Good" JS: "You should also mention the SET DATEFIRST setting." Ed Price: "This is a good article for less advanced T-SQL users, and that's an important audience (possibly the most important)! Great job on a clearly written article that helps with the basics! " |
| Andy O'Neill | T-SQL: How to get the Latest Costs | JS: "A good example, could be better by comparing the different options as well as including new techniques like WITH statements. But nice work of showing your way through." Ed Price: "A good topic that's superbly written with descriptions and fantastic code samples! And a link to get the code in the Gallery! That's great!" Richard Mueller: "I needed better explanation the issue and of the relationships between the tables." |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Versions and Tags for Visual Basic | Ed Price: "Nice! Good formatting on the table! Although this isn't a technical article, it's a great resource for the community!" Richard Mueller: "Good information in a nice table." |
| Nonki Takahashi | Visual Basic Portal | Richard Mueller: "A wonderful collection of Wiki articles. It would help to categorize them, if possible" Ed Price: "Very helpful for the community as well. Good job!" |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| saramgsilva | Analyzing C# code using NDepend | Ed Price: "Truly epic. I love the use of bold and bullets to explain concepts. The depth is astonishing. Great job!" |
| Jaliya Udagedara | Expression Trees - Accessing Nested Properties | Ed Price: "Fantastic descriptions, thorough coverage, and strange comments! Who could ask for anything more?" Peter Laker: Nice work Jaliya, another scorcher of an article. |
| Andy O'Neil | C#: Passing parameters | Ed Price: "Great job taking us through these steps!" Peter Laker: "Top Tip as always Andy! Well worth a medal." |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Durval Ramos | Office 365 Portal | Ed Price: "Whoa! Woh! Wow. Wow. This is incredibly helpful! This just keeps going with great Wiki resources!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Great collection of technet wiki articles about Office 365!" Richard Mueller: "Excellent collection of Wiki articles, well formatted." |
| Muhammad Ehsan | Dynamics AX Portal | Ed Price: "Good portal. Thanks for getting this started!" Margriet Bruggeman: "" Richard Mueller: "Another great addition to our collection of Portals." |
| Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Carmelo La Monica | Geolocation Services on Windows Phone 8. | JH: "Great article with a lot of code and pictures." Ed Price: "Incredible detail. Great formatting with bullets and bold! And great job linking to the full code on the MSDN Gallery! Good feedback discussion in the comments!" |
| saramgsilva | How to add marketplace review using the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (using MVVM) | JH: "Good article about an important point in app development which is left out sometimes." Ed Price: "Great topic! Very well written!" |
| mcosmin | How to fix fatal exceptions when doing intensive file IO in a windows runtime app | JH: "Love how-to-fix articles, but this one is missing something such as a small code snippet or example." Ed Price: "This is a very helpful look at this problem. Thanks for the contribution!" |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Magnus (MM8) | WPF: Adding Right-Aligned Row Numbers To a DataGridRowHeader | Ed Price: "Although it's a complicated approach, this is a well-written articel with lots of detail, well-formatted code, and images. Great Additional Resources section to read more about the contexts!" Peter Laker: "How very useful Magnus! Nice work!" KJ: "agree with other comment: seems complicated" |
| Manuel Meyer | How to Get the Default Template of a Control in XAML? | Ed Price: "Good topic, but it would be helpful to break up the code and explain it more. Helpful contributions. Thanks!" Peter Laker: "Sweet tip Manuel! When you haven't got Blend, this is a great tool. Dig deeper here." KJ: "classic" |
| Andy O'Neill | WPF DynamicResource ObservableCollection | KJ: "good sample" Ed Price: "Another well-written contribution with great explanations on the code snippets and fantastic formatting!" Peter Laker: "Nice tip sheet Andy! I have something similar here if anyone's interested." |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - August 2014 |
| Mr X | How to join UNIX / Linux to Active Directory | Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like to learn new way to do it. I would maybe add a link to how to do it with samba (net ads join ...) I would love to know whats the advantage of powerbroker too over the samba method.
(Like does the product offer group policy or such configuration as samba does not at this time)" GL: "I had to figure this out once myself and it wasn't easy, so thanks for the tips." JM: "This is a great article and will be very helpful to System Administrators" Richard Mueller: "Great information with a good explanation of the steps." |
| Darshana Jayathilake | How to downgrade domain and forest functional level(windows 2012R2/2012/2008R2) | Philippe Levesque: "Good information to know." GL: "This could be very useful information. Thanks for providing it!" Richard Mueller: "Good explanation of the steps to downgrade FFL and DFL. We could use discussion of when someone might want to do this." JM: "This is a very good article. Suggestions for improvement: Clean up screenshots, explain why you might want to downgrade, and revise for correct grammar" |
| Mr X | How to measure the response time of your Domain Controllers when running an LDAP query | JM: "This is a very good article" Richard Mueller: "Excellent concept to measure query performance." Philippe Levesque: "Good method to test out for AD delay in the server. A lot of product just run ping and monitor service to be sure they are not at off to see the health of the server." GL: "This seems useful but I'd like to see a scenario stated for using it." |
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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to August's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in September 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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