Microsoft TechNet's Guru Award Winners! October 2017

All the votes are in!  

 

And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2017 !!!!

 

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.

 

 

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 - October 2017

	Naomi N	Implementing Server Side validations in AngularJS	Jeff Fritz: "Great depth in showing the Angular integration"Khanna Gaurav: "Nicely explained with all the required code"Gaurav Kumar Arora: "Great write up. Its good when we share our knowledge with a practical approach."Sabah Shariq: "Great article! with step by step explanation."SYEDSHANU: "Great post, Is that possible to upload the source code so that the readers can download and get more benefit to understand the code."
	Chilberto	Using Application Insights Custom Events in ASP.Net Core	SYEDSHANU: "Very Useful Post and thanks for sharing Chilberto"Khanna Gaurav: "Interesting topic"Gaurav Kumar Arora: "Short but worth to read write up. Good to read about application insight custom events with ASP.NET Core"Sabah Shariq: "Nice article."Jeff Fritz: "Please stop using project.json in documentation, it is not supported"

 

BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2017

Mauricio Feijo

How WCF-SQL Adapter TypedPolling Namespace Is Defined

JS: "Worthy :)"

 

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2017

	Kapil.Kumawat	SQL Server Features and Basic Comparison at IaaS vs PaaS vs On Premise	Eric Berg: "Thank you...that is really usefull"Nicolas Bonnet: "Nice"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "This is a nice comparison."Lasse Wedø: "Good work!"Robert Smit: "Very nice"
	Chilberto	Cognitive Services: Emotion API Overview	Robert Smit: "Nice write-up!"Eric Berg: "Great work. Thank you"Nicolas Bonnet: "Nice"
	Mandar Dharmadhikari	Logic Apps: Optical Character Recognition From Image and Detected Text Analysis Using Microsoft Cognitive Computer Vision Api, Text Analytics Api and Logic Apps	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Article was a bright one, however title was a bit too-much."Lasse Wedø: "Nice work"Eric Berg: "Thank you"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Retrieving All Users in Azure AD Application Roles Programmatically by Bhushan Gawale
  Nicolas Bonnet: "Nice"

• MPP & Distribution in Azure SQL Data warehouse by Ousama EL HOR
  Eric Berg: "Good work. Thanks"

  Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Edward van Biljon	Exchange 2016 -MAPI over HTTP	Lasse Wedø: "Best I think"
  	M.Qassas	Visual Studio 2017: This task requires the application to have elevated permissions	Lasse Wedø: "Very useful"
  	Edward van Biljon	Exchange 2013 - Checking the URLs	Lasse Wedø: "Thanks Edward"

  Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

  • Exchange 2013 - Enable MAPI over HTTP by Edward van Biljon
    Lasse Wedø: "Thanks"

  SharePoint Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Priyaranjan KS	SharePoint Server 2016 : Exploring the Installation of Feature Pack 2 and Development of SharePoint Framework webparts in SharePoint 2016 using TypeScript and PnP JS	John Naguib: "Excellent work, Thanks a lot"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Beautifully crafted and a good work, Priyaranjan."Tiago Costa: "Good"
  	Geetanjali Arora	SharePoint: Basic User Operations using PNP JS and TypeScript	Tiago Costa: "Nice work!"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Good piece"John Naguib: "Very nice, thanks for sharing"
  	M.Qassas	SharePoint 2016: Configure Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)	John Naguib: "Nice, thanks for sharing"Tiago Costa: "Useful instructions"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Nice work"

   

  Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Nonki Takahashi	Small Basic: How to Use micro:bit	SYEDSHANU: "Great Post Nonki .I believe this article can encourage all school kids to work with Small Basic using micro bit."
  	Nonki Takahashi	Small Basic: Shapes	SYEDSHANU: "One more good example for working with Shapes, Thanks for sharing Nonki"
  	Nonki Takahashi	Small Basic Known Issue: Decimal Plus Null Text Becomes Zero When Decimal Has Comma As Decimal Point	SYEDSHANU: "Simple and useful Solution ,Thanks for sharing."

   

  SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Paul Burton	MDX Calculations Across Multiple Calendars Using Nested SCOPEs	Visakh16: "Good article explaining how multiple calendars can be used in SSAS which is one of the common use cases. Usage of images and code snippets are good. Needs some formatting like adding TOC and adding reference links at the end rather than in between the article."
  	M.Qassas	Power BI: Explore The New Bookmarks Pane Feature	Visakh16: "Nice walkthrough of how bookmarks feature can be utilized in Power BI. The examples shown are good. Nice flow of article with headers and table of contents."
  	Ousama EL HOR	SSAS : Parent/Child dimension properties	Visakh16: "Very small article on the explanation of basic properties within a Parent Child dimension. Usage of images as supplementary info is good. Could have explained matter much more detailed as many places we feel a lack of clarity in the explanation."

  Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

  • Data warehouse : STG & ODS by Ousama EL HOR
    Visakh16: "Too little information for a Wiki article. Also subject wise nothing new and is just a repetition of basic information."
  • Run an SSRS Subscription with SSIS by Ousama EL HOR
    Visakh16: "Very small article which offers nothing new. Article flow resembles more like a how to document"
  • SSIS : Setting up a lookup by Ousama EL HOR
    Visakh16: "Ambiguous article. The title has very little relation to the matter inside. Lack of proper explanation makes it hard to understand the real purpose of article. Title says lookup but the explanation is more regarding data flow task query parameterization."

  SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Visakh16	Understanding the Internals of Import Flat File Wizard in SQL 2017	Diederik Krols: "Very informative, thanks!"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "This is a topic (and needed) topic, which you have just covered."
  	Ousama EL HOR	Defragmentation of an index (Reorganize)	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Nice tips"Diederik Krols: "Thanks!"
  	Ousama EL HOR	What is fragmentation in SQL Server?	Diederik Krols: "Great diagram!"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Good read!"

   

  System Center Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Scott Criscillis	DB Query To Stop Running Runbooks and Clear Their Orphans	Eric Berg: "Well done...thank you"Robert Smit: "Thanks!"Joseph Moody: "Thank you for writing this - I enjoyed reading it!"
  	C Sharp Conner	SCSM Data Warehouse: Fact Groom Retention - Recover Tickets Latest Relationships Marked Deleted	Joseph Moody: "Good write up and a nice use of humor!"Eric Berg: "Thank you for your work"

   

  Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2017

  	M.Qassas	T-SQL: Query Task and Display Settings In Project Server 2016	Visakh16: "Nice and simple article explaining Task display settings in Project Server. Usage of query and images is great. Can be utilized by beginners."Diederik Krols: "Very informative and great layout."
  	Kapil Kumawat	IDENTITY_CACHE feature in SQL Server 2017	Visakh16: "Article explaining IDENTITY_CACHE feature in SQL 2017. Explanation with examples is good and images are also used to good effect. However article could have been better organized into sections for easier understanding."Diederik Krols: "Well done. Content could use some hyperlinks though (like to the trace flag information and some of the TSQL syntax)."
  	Kapil Kumawat	Concat_WS function in SQL Server 2017	Diederik Krols: "Nice choice of topic."Paul Jones: "This is actually quite useful"

   

  Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru - October 2017

  Magnus (MM8)

  A Minimal UWP App

  SYEDSHANU: "Simple example. This article need more example and detail explanation"Diederik Krols: "Very informative, thanks!"

   

  Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2017

  	.paul. _	VB.Net OOP Conway's Game of Life	Diederik Krols: "Nice!"Anthony D. Green: "Very nice!"Khanna Gaurav: ""SYEDSHANU: "As ususal great post Paul.No one can beat you in Gaming with Windows forms using both C# and VB.Keep up the good work."
  	dbasnett	Serial Port	SYEDSHANU: "Very useful post mainly for Manufacturing firm many coders wants this kind of sample codes.Thanks for sharing.It will be more nice if you have added few screenshots of your program output and uploade3d the source code in the MSDN or techNet gallery."Khanna Gaurav: "Very well explained with required code.Great"Diederik Krols: "Very informative."Anthony D. Green: "Very nice!"

   

  Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Pete Laker	Azure Cognitive Services - Computer Vision - Image Recognition API - iSpy plug-in code example	Diederik Krols: "Just awesome!"Jaliya Udagedara: "Awesome article about a trending top and the source is available on GitHub, Fork now!"Khanna Gaurav: "Very well explained. One of the best article of the month."
  	Simple Samples	Iteratively Processing Recursive Data, Such As Directories	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Good implementation and demonstration."Jaliya Udagedara: "A common requirement, well explained. And if you are looking for the source, it's on TechNet Gallery."Khanna Gaurav: "Great article. Like the iteratively processing of data"Diederik Krols: "Great stuff. Add a link to an article that explains the advantages and disadvantages of recursion and iteration, and it 'll be even greater!"
  	.paul. _	C# OOP Conway's Game of Life	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "The code was too much, you can trim the code into smaller bits and then share the vitals."Diederik Krols: "Cool!"Jaliya Udagedara: "It would be great if more explanations were provided to the code."

  Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

  • ADOMD.NET? by Ousama EL HOR
    Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: ""
    Jaliya Udagedara: "If you are into BI and Programming, this should help you in learning how to access SSAS cube from C#."
    Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article"
    Diederik Krols: "Great introduction."

  Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2017

  [Kamlesh Kumar]

  Forum Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule Archive

  Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for the schedule resource for Forum Ninjas Blog"

   

  Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - October 2017

  M.Qassas

  PowerShell: Bulk Register Managed Account In SharePoint

  Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for sharing a good walkthrough for bulk adding of managed account for Sharepoint using PowerShell script"

   

  Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2017

  Magnus (MM8)

  WPF: Handling Both Click and DoubleClick Events

  Khanna Gaurav: "Great solution"SYEDSHANU: "Sorry for this but this example are very old and what's new here need to add more real time example and explanations."Diederik Krols: "Genuine TechNet content: a nice solution to a classic WPF problem. Thanks!"

   

  Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2017

  	Kelly Bush	Active Directory Migration Checklist	Eric Berg: "Thank you"Mark Parris: "An excellent migration checklist, a must follow."Joseph Moody: "Very useful list!!"Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Wonderful work, Kelly. This will help and solve a lot of problems, definitely."Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for the AD DS Migration Checklist. It will be good to have a conclusion, some external references of best practises in Reference section and add other AD DS wiki articles in the See Also section."
  	M.Qassas	Windows Server 2012 : Get The Windows Server Failover Cluster IP	Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for sharing a graphical user interface of finding WSFC IP Address. It will be best to move the link in See Also section to Reference section"Eric Berg: "Thank you"Mark Parris: "A good nugget of information."Joseph Moody: "Clear and concise! Thank you for putting this together."

  A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to December's competition.

  Hopefully we will see you ALL again in November 2017'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

  Azure/Community MVP   IoT & widget lover

  More about the TechNet Guru Awards:

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Comments

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2017
  Congratulations to all winners!
• Anonymous
  November 18, 2017
  ??? It's Here ???Thanks to all the Judges ?‍?on their great work, and well done to all authors that shared their knowledge ?Congrats to all winners :-)
• Anonymous
  November 18, 2017
  It's good to see the results earlier this month...
• Anonymous
  November 19, 2017
  Congratulations to all winners! Thanks to all the Judges! Thanks, Pete Laker for your great effort to prepare and publish this report! A bit note: the blog URL is "microsoft-technets-guru-award-winners-november-2017/" that should refer to Oct month! I'm afraid it may cause conflict for the next month
• Anonymous
  November 20, 2017
  Thanks to all the judges. Congratulations to all the winners and contributors for their amazing articles.
  • Anonymous
    December 14, 2017
    Congratulation to Geetanjli and all other winners. Thanks for your all valuable contributions.