TechNet Guru Competition Winners 2016

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1/17/2024

Introduction

The TechNet Guru Contribution is a monthly competition that provides a chance to all members of the community to contribute great articles in the categories of their choice. Each month people who post an article to TechNet Wiki can propose their article for consideration in that month's awards. The top three articles each month win a "virtual" gold, silver or bronze award. This article lists all people winning medals in that competition year 2016.

Note: This article is listed all top three articles winner but we really appreciate other participant and their articles who not reached to top 3. This was a very good year and we found some new Gurus in all category. Wish you all the best for year 2017.

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The winner list is split over a number of categories. All category have top 3 winners for each month and we can find the article details once click on winner's name.

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Q1 and Q2 2016

Category		January	February	March	April	May	June
BizTalk	Gold	Steef-Jan Wiggers	Steef-Jan Wiggers	Johns-305	Eldert Grootenboer	Kjetil Tonstad	SMSVikasK
	Silver	Steef-Jan Wiggers	Eldert Grootenboer	Eldert Grootenboer	SMSVikasK	Eldert Grootenboer	Johns-305
	Bronze	Janardhan Bikka	lanax	Lex Hegt	Sandro Pereira	SMSVikasK	SMSVikasK

Forefront Identity Manager	Gold	Peter Geelen	Jeff Ingalls	Jeff Ingalls	Jeff Ingalls	Peter Geelen
	Silver	Jeff Ingalls	Wim Beck			Peter Geelen
	Bronze	Peter Geelen

Microsoft Azure	Gold	Chilberto	Steef-Jan Wiggers	Emiliano Musso	Sandro Pereira	Bhushan Gawale	Dileepa Kariyawasam
	Silver	Steef-Jan Wiggers	XAML Guy	Samir Farhat	Bhushan Gawale	Sibeesh Venu	Chervine
	Bronze		Samir Farhat	Kia Zhi Tang	Janshair Khan	Sandro Pereira	Michel Jatobá

Miscellaneous	Gold	Namrah Khurram	Geetanjali Arora	SYEDSHANU	Namrah Khurram	Chilberto	SYED SHANU
	Silver	SYEDSHANU	Gaurav Kumar Arora	Santhakumar Munuswamy	SYED SHANU	Carmelo La Monica	Santhakumar Munuswamy
	Bronze	João Sousa	SYEDSHANU	Carmelo La Monica	Janshair Khan		Dileepa Kariyawasam

SharePoint 2010 / 2013	Gold	Nathanaël Stassart	Nathanaël Stassart		Nathanaël Stassart	Dan Christian	Waqas Sarwar
	Silver	Dan Christian	Rakhi Jain		Waqas Sarwar	Waqas Sarwar	Waqas Sarwar
	Bronze	Rahul A Shinde	TenPart		Nathanaël Stassart	Vivek JAGGA	Waqas Sarwar

Small Basic	Gold	Nonki Takahashi	Ed Price	Yvan Leduc	Nonki Takahashi	Philip Munts	Nonki Takahashi
	Silver	Ed Price	Nonki Takahashi	Nonki Takahashi		Nonki Takahashi	Deva
	Bronze		Ed Price

SQL BI & Power BI	Gold	Greg Deckler	Vinay Manikanda	Greg Deckler	Greg Deckler	Greg Deckler	Thomas LeBlanc
	Silver		Visakh16	Greg Deckler		Anil Maharjan	Sudeep Raj
	Bronze		Greg Deckler				Jens Vestergaard

SQL Server General & Database Engine	Gold	FLauffer	FLauffer	Chervine		Chervine	Hezequias Vasconcelos
	Silver		Florent Duret	FLauffer		Shanky	FLauffer
	Bronze

System Center	Gold	Jose R. Esposito	Darren Joyce			vishwanatham sridhar	Digvijay S Rajawat
	Silver	Adin Ermie				Anders Rodland	C Sharp Conner
	Bronze					Anders Rodland	C Sharp Conner

Transact-SQL	Gold	Natig Gurbanov	Olaf Helper	Diegoctn	Natig Gurbanov
	Silver		Natig Gurbanov
	Bronze

Universal Windows Apps	Gold		George Chondrompilas	Manuel Cota	Ravindra Singh Chhabra	Namrah Khurram	Carmelo La Monica
	Silver		Magnus (MM8)		Manisha Biswas	Manuel Cota	Santhakumar Munuswamy
	Bronze				Ravindra Singh Chhabra	Sajid Ali Khan	Damien Allan

Visual Basic	Gold	Emiliano Musso	.paul.	.paul.	Emiliano Musso		.paul.
	Silver	.paul.	SYEDSHANU		.paul.
	Bronze	.paul.

Visual C#	Gold	SYEDSHANU	SYEDSHANU	Sibeesh Venu	Sibeesh Venu	Emiliano Musso	Emiliano Musso
	Silver		Emiliano Musso	Emiliano Musso	SYED SHANU	SYED SHANU	Sabah Shariq
	Bronze		Brian Seekford	Sibeesh Venu	Sibeesh Venu		Sibeesh Venu

Wiki and Portals	Gold	PITUACH	Ed Price	Richard Mueller		Peter Geelen	Carsten Siemens
	Silver	Nonki Takahashi		Ed Price			Peter Geelen
	Bronze						Peter Geelen

Windows PowerShell	Gold	Sergey Vdovin	Pierre-Alexandre Braeken	VGSandz	VGSandz	Matt McNabb	Richard Mueller
	Silver	Chen V	Richard Mueller			Arleta Wanat	Prashanth Jayaram
	Bronze						Digvijay S Rajawat

Windows Presentation Foundation	Gold	Andy ONeill	Andy ONeill		Andy ONeill
	Silver		Brian Seekford
	Bronze

Windows Server	Gold	Richard Mueller	Kia Zhi Tang	Nathanaël Stassart	Nathanaël Stassart	Kia Zhi Tang	Ryen Tang
	Silver	Kia Zhi Tang	Mahdi Tehrani	Kia Zhi Tang	Avendil
	Bronze	Mahdi Tehrani			Kia Zhi Tang

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Q3 and Q4 2016

Category		July	August	September	October	November	December
BizTalk	Gold	Kjetil Tonstad	Johns-305	Mandar Dharmadhikari	Mandar Dharmadhikari	Eldert Grootenboer	Giri Abhay
	Silver	Mandar Dharmadhikari	Chilberto	Kjetil Tonstad	Johns-305	Rachit Sikroria
	Bronze	Rahul Madaan	lanax	Johns-305		Kjetil Tonstad

Forefront Identity Manager	Gold	Jeff Ingalls	Peter Geelen	Peter Geelen	Jeff Ingalls	Wim Beck	Peter Geelen
	Silver	Peter Geelen	AnirbanSingha	C Blackburn	Wim Beck	Jeff Ingalls
	Bronze		Wim Beck	Peter Geelen	Peter Geelen

Microsoft Azure	Gold	Kia Zhi Tang	Kia Zhi Tang	Bhushan Gawale	Bhushan Gawale	Steef-Jan Wiggers	Abhishek kumar
	Silver	Eldert Grootenboer	Chilberto	Rahul_Madaan	Marcin Policht	Bhushan Gawale	Steef-Jan Wiggers
	Bronze	Bhushan Gawale	Bhushan Gawale		Steef-Jan Wiggers	Chervine	Ken Cenerelli

Miscellaneous	Gold	Ronen Ariely & Sabah Shariq	Dileepa Kariyawasam	Santhakumar Munuswamy	Sandeep Shekhawat	Vincent Maverick Durano	Hassaan Akbar
	Silver	Ken Cenerelli	Sandeep Shekhawat	Dileepa Kariyawasam	Santhakumar Munuswamy	Peter Geelen	SYED SHANU
	Bronze	SYEDSHANU	SYED SHANU	Sandeep Shekhawat	Gaurav Kumar Arora	Emiliano Musso	Sandeep Shekhawat

SharePoint 2010 / 2013	Gold	Amjad Khan SharePoint	Geetanjali Arora	Rakhi Jain	Michaelle de las Alas	Hezequias Vasconcelos	Priyaranjan KS
	Silver	Shantha Kumar T	Dan Christian	Keval Solanki	Shantha Kumar T	Nico Martens	Sjoukje Zaal
	Bronze	Waqas Sarwar	Waqas Sarwar	Geetanjali Arora	Vivek Jagga	Waqas Sarwar	Waqas Sarwar

Small Basic	Gold	Nonki Takahashi	Nonki Takahashi	Nonki Takahashi	Nonki Takahashi		Ed Price
	Silver	Deva			Ed Price		Ed Price
	Bronze	Nonki Takahashi

SQL BI & Power BI	Gold	Thomas LeBlanc					Priyaranjan KS
	Silver						Priyaranjan KS
	Bronze

SQL Server General & Database Engine	Gold	Prashanth Jayaram	Uwe Ricken	Prashanth Jayaram	Prashanth Jayaram	Kia Zhi Tang	Prashanth Jayaram
	Silver	Prashanth Jayaram	Prashanth Jayaram	Prashanth Jayaram		Vincent Maverick Durano
	Bronze					Prashanth Jayaram

System Center	Gold	sridhar vishwanatham	sridhar vishwanatham	Nick Hogarth	Stoyan Chalakov	Nick Hogarth
	Silver	Nick Hogarth			C Sharp Conner
	Bronze

Transact-SQL	Gold	Ronen Ariely				Ronen Ariely	Priyaranjan KS
	Silver						RajeeshMenoth
	Bronze

Universal Windows Apps	Gold	Santhakumar Munuswamy		Carmelo La Monica	Vinoth Rajendran	SYED SHANU	Hassaan Akbar
	Silver	Ravindra Singh Chhabra					Vinoth Rajendran
	Bronze	Timothé Larivière

Visual Basic	Gold	.paul.	Hussain Shahbaz Khawaja		.paul.
	Silver				.paul.
	Bronze

Visual C#	Gold	SYEDSHANU	Sandeep Shekhawat	Syed Shanu	Sibeesh Venu	Vincent Maverick Durano	Emiliano Musso
	Silver	Sandeep Shekhawat	Sabah Shariq	Santhakumar Munuswamy	João Sousa	Syed Shanu	Sandeep Shekhawat
	Bronze	Karthik Elumalai	Sibeesh Venu	Sandeep Shekhawat	Sandeep Shekhawat	Hansamali	Vincent Maverick Durano

Wiki and Portals	Gold	Peter Geelen		Peter Geelen	Peter Geelen	Peter Geelen	Ed Price
	Silver	SYED SHANU			Ronen Ariely
	Bronze	Peter Geelen

Windows PowerShell	Gold	Prashanth Jayaram	Maor Bracha	Kia Zhi Tang	Prashanth Jayaram	Prashanth Jayaram	Priyaranjan KS
	Silver	Arleta Wanat	Prashanth Jayaram	Prashanth Jayaram	Peter Geelen		Priyaranjan KS
	Bronze	Maor Bracha		Mandar Dharmadhikari	Prashanth Jayaram

Windows Presentation Foundation	Gold	Magnus (MM8)	Magnus (MM8)		Magnus (MM8)
	Silver
	Bronze

Windows Server	Gold	Peter Geelen			Burak Ugur	Kia Zhi Tang	Carsten Siemens
	Silver	Kia Zhi Tang
	Bronze

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TechNet Guru Competition Winners 2016

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Q1 and Q2 2016

Q3 and Q4 2016

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