Microsoft TechNet Guru Competition May 2018
All the votes (for May) are in, just before the lock down!!
Sorry for slight delay this month. We need more judges in Small Basic, BizTalk, Azure & System Center.
If you or someone you know is a Microsoft employee, MVP or wish to join the TechNet Wiki Community Council, please get in touch.
Getting down to it... below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards May 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 - May 2018 |
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SYED SHANU | ASP.NET Core Blazor CRUD using Entity Framework and Web API |
| Jeff Fritz: "Great content format. I like the use of animated GIFs and video"Sabah Shariq: "The article is simple to follow and it's well presented."Khanna Gaurav: "Great article" | ||
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AnkitSharma007 | ASP.NET Core 2.0: Using Highcharts With Angular 5 |
| Jeff Fritz: "Nice use of animated GIFs to show the tooltip features. Great commentary around each of the code blocks"Khanna Gaurav: "Nicely explained"Sabah Shariq: "Great article with a lot of code snippets and explanations, nice!" | ||
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AnkitSharma007 | ASP.NET Core – CRUD Using Blazor And Entity Framework Core |
| Sabah Shariq: "Great article!"Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article"Jeff Fritz: "Blazor is not released, not supported, and it needs to be conveyed that this is an experiment. This feels misleading, but other wise content is good" | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- ASP.NET Core Blazor Filtering and Sorting using Entity Framework and Web API by SYED SHANU
Jeff Fritz: "Great content! Scaling changes on the images could use some work, but very nice walkthrough"
Sabah Shariq: "Nicely explains all the steps in details. Also great choice of example to explain the topic."
Khanna Gaurav: "Nicely explained" - Custom Code-Generator Using ASP.Net Core by Shashangka Shekhar
Jeff Fritz: "Too much code without any explanation between blocks. No comments in code that explain what I am looking at. English needs a little work"
Sabah Shariq: "Need more explanation on the code, about the topic, what is the purpose, what is benefit and why? Also do not publicly expose the user credentials. Follow the Wiki guidelines."
Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article" - ASP.NET Core 2.0: Two Factor Authentication Using Google Authenticator by AnkitSharma007
Jeff Fritz: "The title is misleading because Google Authenticator is a specific 2FA app and there are many that serve this purpose. Content was great"
Sabah Shariq: "Nice."
Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article"
| BizTalk Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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[Kamlesh Kumar] | [Missed from April] BizTalk: Configure TLS 1.2 on BizTalk Server |
| Abhishek Kumar: "Nice article and must read for TLS issues.Thanks Kamlesh for sharing"JS: "So helpful to have all of this cataloged on one place. Great job." | ||
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Mandar Dharmadhikari | BizTalk: Implementing Custom User Name and Password Authorization On WCF Receive Location |
| Abhishek Kumar: "Good article Mandar . Keep them coming"JS: "Nice read!" | ||
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Peter Geelen | MIM/FIM Troubleshooting: Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334 (Primary Server) |
| Søren Granfeldt: "Nice troubleshooting tip for handling the good old sync setup"Lasse Wedø: "Although presented with an error and a solution, I would like to se an introduction and a scenario not just a link to another forum post." | ||
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Mitch King - 365 Guy | FIM / MIM / AADC - Real World Working With Multi Forest & "Resource Forest" Model |
| Lasse Wedø: "Informational and to the point."Søren Granfeldt: "Nice post Mitch" | ||
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Peter Geelen | MIM/FIM Troubleshooting Collection: Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334 |
| Søren Granfeldt: "Duplicate? Seems empty"Lasse Wedø: "Thanks Peter" | ||
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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DBS14 | Calling an Integration Account Assembly Function from within an Azure Logic App |
| Lasse Wedø: "Good and informational"Nicolas Bonnet: "Good read!" | ||
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Pete Laker | Azure Cognitive Services - Computer Vision - Face Recognition API - Identify and search all your photos for FREE! |
| Lasse Wedø: "Good stuff, but I would like the introduction to be more to the point" | ||
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Subhro Majumder | Introduction to Azure Active Directory |
| Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Purely perfect article."Lasse Wedø: "There is a lot of good information here, but nothing new. This can all be found at various official sites. I would rather have an article pointing me to important official links" | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Azure Cognitive Services: Browse images by tag using C# by Emiliano Musso
Lasse Wedø: "Good and informational" - Microsoft Bot Framework: Building Intelligent Chat Bot Using Azure Functions and LUIS by Mandar Dharmadhikari
Lasse Wedø: "Good information, but I would like to see less screenshots. Use them only where absolutely necessary" - Microsoft Azure Mobile App - Walkthrough by Kapil Kumawat
Lasse Wedø: "This is something that belongs on a personal blog, not sure this is Wiki Material. Nothing wrong with the information." - Re)Distributing Azure Functions by Isham Mohamed
Lasse Wedø: "Could use a better introduction, and maybe a better structure with a table of content." - Microsoft Flow: Automatic Intelligent Mail Responder Using Sentiment Detection Api and Flow by Mandar Dharmadhikari
Lasse Wedø: "A quick walk through, Would like more examples and use cases"
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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SYED SHANU | Getting started with Xamarin Android Single View App |
| Peter Geelen: "Nice work, with a great mix of images, video and text!"Lasse Wedø: "Good information, I would use less screenshots, and possibly revisit the layout regarding spacing."Kia Zhi Tang: "Nice walk-through on getting started with Xamarin on Andriod. Enjoyed reading this."Richard Mueller: "Thank you for this detailed explanation of an interesting app. The See Also should only include links to other Wiki articles. More references would add a lot." | ||
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AnkitSharma007 | Getting Started With Angular 6.0 |
| Richard Mueller: "Well done, with good steps and images. Good See Also. A few things need explanation or links, like "node" and "npm", for those new to Angular."Peter Geelen: "Well done!"Lasse Wedø: "This article could be improved with a better intro including references to what angular actually is"Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for sharing. Nodejs & Angular on VSCode." | ||
| SharePoint Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Ramakrishnan Raman | Use bootstrap with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) webpart & extensions |
| John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for this nice sharing"Tiago Costa: "Great article with a lot of good information" | ||
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Vivek Jagga | Bulk User Properties Import with SharePoint Online |
| Tiago Costa: "Simple article. I will add some Microsoft Graph information for Azure AD integration, …."John Naguib: "Nice one, thanks" | ||
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Waqas Sarwar | Outgoing Email issue with SharePoint 2016 |
| John Naguib: "Well done , thanks for sharing"Tiago Costa: "Simple but Interesting article" | ||
| Small Basic Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Compatible Systems |
| SYEDSHANU: "Nice Share Nonki Takahashi.Visual Programming Tool Link seems to be broken Link need to be updated." | ||
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Mohsin_A_Khan | SQL Server: Concurrency Control Models, ACID Properties and Transaction Isolation Levels |
| Visakh16: "A quality and well detailed article talking through the internals of ACID properties, concurrency control and isolation levels. The usage of small examples for illustrations are great. On the whole a very good article for someone to get thorough idea on the internals of SQLServer and some basic DB fundamentals"Tomaž Kaštrun: "A nice demonstration the SQL Server database Isolation levels with practical queries."Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "Awesome article which cover the topic from start to end. nice example and well explained. This article is well written from the technical perspective as well as from the way it is presented as TechNet Wiki article. Well done!" | ||
| System Center Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Leon Laude | SCOM 2016: Integrating with HPE OneView 4.0 |
| Kia Zhi Tang: "Loves to see walk-through with screenshots on integrating with other vendors. Thank you for sharing. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs / HP docs related to this wiki." | ||
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Simon Dettling | Removing orphaned Active Directory Users from Configuration Manager |
| Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for the handy Windows PowerShell script and the Wiki article explanations about it. :)" | ||
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Leon Laude | SCOM 2016: Integration with Operations Management Suite (OMS) |
| Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for sharing about integrating On-Premise SCOM with Azure Log Analytics service for OMS Suite screenshots walk-through. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs related to this wiki." | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- System Center Orchestrator 2016: Connecting to Microsoft Azure by Leon Laude
Kia Zhi Tang: "Good walk-through with screenshots on self-signed certificate. Hope to see the use of PKI issued certificate for enterprises. Thank you for sharing. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs related to this wiki." - SCOM 2016: Monitor a specific Windows Event by Leon Laude
Kia Zhi Tang: "This is always good walk-through with screenshots for monitoring customization. Thank you for sharing. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs related to this wiki." - Enabling SCOM maintenance mode from an agent computer by Leon Laude
Kia Zhi Tang: "Nice walk-through with screenshots and explanation of the background mechanics. Thank you for sharing. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs related to this wiki." - Setting up an Azure Backup Vault registration with DPM 2016 by Leon Laude
Kia Zhi Tang: "This is a good walk-through with screenshots. Thank you for sharing. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs related to this wiki." - SCORCH 1801 Integration with SCOM 1801 by Leon Laude
Kia Zhi Tang: "This is a good walk-through with screenshots due to the dependency for .Net Framework (mscorlib.dll). Thank you for sharing. It will be great if you build a See Also section with all those System Center wiki articles and a Reference section of those Microsoft docs related to this wiki."
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Visakh16 | Simulating IGNORE NULLs Functionality On FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE Functions in Transact SQL |
| Tomaž Kaštrun: "Article shows a nice example of using FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE when there are NULL values in corresponding fields."Richard Mueller: "Interesting topic, and well done. I like the links explaining FIRST VALUE, etc. But the See Also should only include links to Wiki articles."Ronen Ariely (aka pituach) : "very good article! The topic is useful and the entire article is well written. It start with a nice introduction of the problem and move to the solution. It is well formatted according to the TNWiki rules and surely fit to get the gold medal" | ||
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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.paul. _ | VB.Net- Graphical Mathematical Transformations |
| SYEDSHANU: "Awesome Post Paul.Each part has been explained well and good to see with Source code download link,Thanks for sharing"Khanna Gaurav: "Great work."Richard Mueller: "Very interesting, and well explained. We need links to references, and other Wiki articles in a See Also." | ||
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Karen Payne | Essential VB.NET Tuples |
| Khanna Gaurav: "Excellent article. Very well explained"SYEDSHANU: "Tuples is very cool concept and thanks for sharing with examples."Richard Mueller: "Excellent use of Wiki guidelines. I like the links for iterator and yield statement. Tuples look very interesting." | ||
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.paul. _ | OOP Statistical Functions |
| Richard Mueller: "Well done. Could use links to references, and a See Also. Good explanations, code, and images."SYEDSHANU: "Statistical functions are very useful concepts as I have been used to work with this concept for Factory Automation projects,Your samples are very simple and easy to understand ,Thanks again for sharing one more good sample in VB.NET"Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article" | ||
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- DataGridView column configuration VB.NET by Karen Payne
SYEDSHANU: "One more useful post from Karen as to dynamically show/hide DataGridView Column and also to reorder the column display in DataGridView ,good to see the Source code download link,Thanks for sharing"
Khanna Gaurav: "Useful configuration and should be very useful"
Richard Mueller: "Another excellent article. Using the XML adds great functionality for the user."
| Visual C# Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Karen Payne | .NET: Defensive data programming (Part 2) |
| Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article, nicely explained using both C# and VB.NET code samples."Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article" | ||
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Karen Payne | Working with SMTP email with C# (Part 1) |
| Khanna Gaurav: "Great work"Jaliya Udagedara: "Good article explaining a common requirement." | ||
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Karen Payne | Windows forms Auto complete ComboBox C# |
| Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article"Jaliya Udagedara: "Back to Windows Forms, nice!" | ||
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Chilberto | Is it time to refactor the TechNet Wiki Guru Awards Competition? |
| Peter Geelen: "The only in this category this month, always a win. But it's an important question to ask and the entire community should chime and and provide their opinion. Very good initiative!"Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for leading the refactoring. Hope to see the some discussion started in the forum. :)"Richard Mueller: "Excellent to encourage feedback for the future of the Wiki Guru contests. Good to link the blog post and articles on the current practices." | ||
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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Pete Laker | Publish your old WPF and WinForms 'desktop applications' in the Windows Store! No code conversion! MSIX in three easy steps. Visual Studio or Desktop Bridge |
| SYEDSHANU: "Good to see as the article has been explained with Images which makes the readers to understand easily.This is very useful post Pedro,Thanks for sharing ,"Khanna Gaurav: "Great article" | ||
| Windows Server Technical Guru - May 2018 |
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C Sharp Conner | Virtual Isolated TEST Environment - Configuring 2 Separate Domains with Forest Trust |
| Mark Parris: "How to create a Forest trust - not sure the long term usefulness of this article though as it is based on Windows Server 2008 R2."Eric Berg: "thank you"Kia Zhi Tang: "Thanks for contributing a walk-through with some screenshots."Richard Mueller: "Great topic with detailed steps. Links would help, Wiki articles in a See Also section, other documentation in a Other Resources or Other References section." | ||
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
With thanks,
Pete Laker & The TechNet Wiki Council
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Comments
- Anonymous
June 28, 2018
Congrats to all the winners - Anonymous
June 29, 2018
Congrats to all the winners & Thanks for sharing us :) - Anonymous
June 29, 2018
Awesome articles guys! Well done :-)Congrats to all these who win this month and remember that tomorrow you can start register your articles for the July contest, while we will start the voting for June :-) . - Anonymous
July 27, 2018
Congrats to all!