Microsoft TechNet Wiki "Technical Guru" Awards! April 2018
All the votes (for last month's competition) are now in!
Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Competirion, April 2018 !!!!
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.
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.
| ASP.NET Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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AnkitSharma007 | ASP.NET Core 2.0 : CRUD Using Angular 5 And Entity Framework Core |
| Sabah Shariq: "Simple and Elegant with step by step explanation"Khanna Gaurav: "Nicely explained" | ||
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SYED SHANU | ASP.NET Core 2.0 User Role Base Dynamic Menu Using Dependency Injection |
| Sabah Shariq: "Great article!"Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article, thanks!" | ||
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AnkitSharma007 | ASP.NET Core 2.0: Getting Started With Blazor |
| Khanna Gaurav: "Very well explained"Sabah Shariq: "Nice, step by step explanation for anyone to getting started" | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- ASP.NET Core 2.0: Authentication Using LinkedIn by AnkitSharma007
Sabah Shariq: "Nice article"
Khanna Gaurav: "Great article" - ASP.NET Core 2.0: Authentication Using Google Account by AnkitSharma007
Sabah Shariq: "Nice article"
Khanna Gaurav: "Thanks!"
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Peter Geelen | MIM 2016 Troubleshooting: SQL Connection issues |
| Lasse Wedø: "Thanks Peter!"Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Great article which gives list of common issues, and it links the readers to a tool for monitoring and troubleshooting the issue. The article is simple to follow and it's well presented." | ||
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Mandar Dharmadhikari | Logic Apps : Integrating LUIS Application With Logic Apps To Predict Intent in User Utterances |
| Eric Berg: "Very good write-up! Thanks Mandar"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Great job with the article Mandar, just the images were mostly too big and scaled."Peter Laker: "Nice combination Mandar. Very good work." | ||
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Isham Mohamed | Asynchronous Programming in Azure Functions |
| Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "You covered the topic that most ignore, great job there! Personally I can add the overall benefit in terms of cost too."Eric Berg: "Good subject coverage Isham"Peter Laker: "Nice walk through all the important points, thanks Isham!" | ||
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Malin De Silva | Container Options in Azure |
| Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "You forgot the Web App for Containers. :-)"Eric Berg: "Nice article, thanks!"Peter Laker: "Thanks Afzaal, that has a lot of good points covered" | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Azure Functions: Integrating LUIS Application With Azure Function Apps To Predict Intent in User Utterances by Mandar Dharmadhikari
Eric Berg: "Thank you!"
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Nice, thanks!" - XML Message Routing with BizTalk Schema Promoted Properties in Azure Service Bus & Logic Apps by DBS14
Eric Berg: "Very good"
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Nice" - Building a ConfigMgr Lab in Azure (DevTest Labs) by Dan Padgett
Eric Berg: "Thanks!" - Implement an End-to-End IoT solution connecting to Azure, processing, analyzing and visualizing data by Dave Rendón
Lasse Wedø: "Very good!" - Container Orchestration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by Kasun Rajapakse
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "This would have been better if you also covered other areas of AKS too. ;-)"
| SharePoint Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Ramakrishnan Raman | Implementation of SharePoint Site Design and Site Script |
| John Naguib: "Excellent, thanks a lot for this nice wiki" | ||
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get2pallav | SharePoint Framework (SPFx) : Custom style |
| John Naguib: "very nice thanks for sharing" | ||
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Rakhi Jain | SharePoint Online: Moving items between lists |
| John Naguib: "Nice thanks for sharing" | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- SharePoint 2016 Popularity Trends and Usage data return no results by Waqas Sarwar
John Naguib: "Thank you!"
| Small Basic Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Clipboard |
| Peter Laker: "Thanks Ninki, another gem"SYEDSHANU: "Good start to work with Clipboard in Small Basic,Good to see the code part is added in article with explanations." | ||
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Ousama EL HOR | Power BI : Create a custom Map |
| Visakh16: "A simple article explaining use of a custom map for Power BI. Usage of images is great. A good article for getting the beginners on to speed in using a custom map"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Nice explanation, Ousama!" | ||
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Uwe Ricken | Inside the engine - creating a foreign key |
| Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Great Article on advanced topic (SQL Internals). The content is AWESOME. There were several issues related to the format, which were fixed after I contact the author. Well done! If the article was presented in the TechNet Wiki Facebook group, then we would have been able to give feedback faster."Visakh16: "A good article explaining internals of what happens when a foreign key is created relating two tables." | ||
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AV111 | SQL Server Buffer Pool |
| Visakh16: "Article explaining buffer pool extension in SQLServer. Good choice of topic and nice way of presentation. Headings might need some rephrasing"Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Nice topic. The article summarize the topic of SQL Server Buffer Pool. There is place for improvement, but it does bring a good starting point." | ||
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RajeeshMenoth | Azure SQL Database - Create And Connect SQL Database In The Azure Portal |
| Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Important topic for beginners, and the article is well written."Visakh16: "Article providing step by step procedure to azure sql database. use of images is good. A good article for beginners" | ||
| System Center Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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C Sharp Conner | SCSM Data Warehouse - Force Complete Stuck Job and Run New Job |
| Eric Berg: "Well done. Thanks"Adam Fowler: "Handy info, but may need more steps for people who aren't as familiar with the product - e.g. where do you go for step 1 and how do you do it" | ||
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C Sharp Conner | SCSM DWASDatabase - Cant Process Cubes - Encryption not supported on the client 08001 |
| Adam Fowler: "Great quick piece of help here, make sure to show more settings/screenshots so someone can follow who hasn't done this before. Keep contributing!"Eric Berg: "Thank you" | ||
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Karen Payne | Working with parameterized SQL operations |
| Khanna Gaurav: "Great article"SYEDSHANU: "Very useful topic and good to see with very detailed explanations with source code for download."Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation and great use of Wiki guidelines. I especially like the emphasis on defensive coding techniques. And the links (cross-links) to explanations of features (like INSERT and WHERE) is fantastic. This adds a lot to the usefulness of the article." | ||
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Karen Payne | Working with parameterized SQL operations part 2 |
| Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a very important security concept. Great use of Wiki guidelines. My only criticism is that a See Also should only link other Wiki articles. This See Also should be called "Other Resources" or "Other References". But a great job."SYEDSHANU: "Thanks again for making the article as 2 part and explained very detailed with examples."Khanna Gaurav: "Great article" | ||
| Visual C# Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Karen Payne | Entity Framework unit testing with mocked data and auto cleanup of data |
| Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Although a complete article, I would recommend to add some demo graphics as well for the audience to understand the workflow."Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article with a lot of code snippets and explanations, awesome!"Khanna Gaurav: "Very useful article for unit testing" | ||
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AnkitSharma007 | C#: Implementation Of Stack And Queue Using Linked List |
| Peter Laker: "Very useful. I just happened to need something similar, where I needed to slip some things higher in a queue."Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "I must argue, what benefit would the user get from this? I would love to know, personally. :-)"Jaliya Udagedara: "A must read article, good one!"Khanna Gaurav: "Good article" | ||
| Windows Server Technical Guru - April 2018 |
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Subhro Majumder | Active Directory Certificate Services - Part 1 : Digital Certificate Overview |
| Mark Parris: "Good introduction to a not that widely understood service."Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Amazing and wonderful post, Subhro! Keep the great work up."Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for sharing the details about certificates. I'm not so sure about some of the points on the disadvantages of Internal PKI. Implementer's discretion should be advised."Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of an important topic Great use of Wiki guidelines. Links to references would add a lot. Great job."Eric Berg: "Well done...looking forward for more." | ||
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Peter Laker & The TechNet Community Council.
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Comments
- Anonymous
May 28, 2018
Congrats to all the Winners :) - Anonymous
May 28, 2018
Congratulations Gurus :) - Anonymous
May 29, 2018
Congrats to all the Winners :) Thank you @Pete - Anonymous
June 02, 2018
Congratulation all winners and thank you our judges for your valuable comment and vote. Best wishes for all other participants and keep sharing a good content with community :) - Anonymous
June 03, 2018
Congrats to all April 2018 winners ???Well done all authors ?There are awesome articles this month!