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SQL Server BI Gold Medal Winner - Using a View to Mask Multi-Server SSIS Package Configurations
Jason won the SQL BI Guru gold medal for October! Here's his winning article... Using a View to Mask...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 12/10/2013
Get your candy... with POWER!!! (how Power Map will help you Trick or Treat)
Best Places to Trick or Treat: A Power Map for Excel Tour...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 10/31/2013
Three SSRS Quizzes - Test Your Knowledge!!!
SSRS Parameters, Authentication, and SharePoint Integration -- Test Your Knowledge There are three...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 10/16/2013
Power Pivot - DAX Error Messages Survey
Have you ever written a DAX formula and gotten an error message you didn't understand? Please take a...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 10/04/2013
IDE Colors in Small Basic
I'm featuring a TechNet Wiki article from Nonki: Small Basic: IDE Colors That was based on this...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/31/2013
FIM Guru - How to Bulk Import Attributes Flow Rules into a Synchronization Rule in the Portal
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Ike Ugochuku, our FIM Guru winner...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/30/2013
Windows Store Guru - Create an Analog Clock in a Windows Store Application
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Ken Tucker, our Windows Phone...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/29/2013
Why create a TechNet Wiki article when you can just link to an MSDN Forum thread?
So why should you create a TechNet Wiki article when you can just link to an existing forum thread?...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/28/2013
Windows Phone Development Guru - Location API in Windows Phone 8
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Isenthil, our Windows Phone...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/28/2013
VB.NET Guru - How to Handle a Huge Collection of Strings
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Reed Kimble, our VB Guru winner...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/23/2013
Transact-SQL Guru - Gaps and Islands Problem
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner!Multi MCC award winner, three-time TechNet Guru Gold...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/20/2013
Power BI - Blog posts you should read!!!
Rather than writing a blog post you should read, I'm going to send you to them! =^) Learn about...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/20/2013
Crying over milk spilled under bridges? Then GO MAKE LEMONADE!
Darby Conley's "Get Fuzzy" comic is full of strange and silly engagements between the characters....
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/19/2013
SSRS Guru - Multi Font Color / Multi Font Size within a Single Field / Textbox
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! SathyanarrayananS is our SSRS/SSIS TechNet Guru for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/19/2013
Power Pivot Guru - We’ve Got The Power: “Power BI”, New Microsoft BI Suite Announced
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! Paul Turley is our Analysis Services/BI TechNet Guru...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/17/2013
Small Basic Guru - Shapes Editor
It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner! Nonki Takahashi is our Small Basic TechNet Guru for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/14/2013
Digital Leap
What is a Digital Leap? It is merely my branded method of putting a link in a book. The top is some...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/13/2013
BizTalk Guru - Provisioning BizTalk Services using the Windows Azure Management Portal
It's time for our first July TechNet Guru winner! Steef-Jan Wiggers is our BizTalk TechNet Guru for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/12/2013
Transact-SQL: Date-Related Queries (featured article)
Today we're featuring an article from mult-gold-medal winner of the T-SQL Guru competition,...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/10/2013
SQL Server 2012 - SET ANSI_PADDING Setting and Its Importance
It's time to feature another TechNet Wiki article! Check out this article from Naomi N: SET...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/08/2013
How to Launch Windows Phone 8 Emulator without using Visual Studio 2012? - by Isenthil
This is our Silver Medal winner from the June TechNet Guru competition: Windows Phone Technical...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/06/2013
WPF Guru - Set Brush for ScrollViewer Thumb
It's time for another TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Khanna Gaurav, an MCC and our WPF Guru...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/05/2013
Windows Store Apps Guru - Building an App using the DataviewModel from external XML
It's time for another TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Sachin S, an MCC and our Windows Store...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/04/2013
Windows Phone Guru - Windows Phone 8 Development: Maps and Clusters
It's time for another TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Tiziano Cacioppolini, our Windows...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/04/2013
VB Guru - How to Communicate with a Microcontroller or Other Serial Device in VB.Net
And the TechNet Guru winners keep rolling in! Congratulations to Reed Kimble, our VB Guru winner for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/03/2013
C# Guru - Named Pipes IO for Inter-process Communication
It's time for another TechNet Guru winner! Congratulations to Dan Randolph, our VB Guru winner for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 08/03/2013
Transact-SQL Guru - How SQL Server Determines Type of the Constant
It's time for our next June TechNet Guru winner! Multi MCC award winner, two-time TechNet Guru Gold...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/27/2013
Reporting Services Guru - Using Custom Code in SSRS Reports for Advanced String Operations
It's time for our next June TechNet Guru winner! MCC award winner Tim Pacl is our SSRS TechNet Guru...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/23/2013
Analysis Services Guru - Aggregations in SSAS
It's time to congratulate another June TechNet Guru winner! Yogish Bhat is our SSAS TechNet Guru for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/23/2013
Small Basic Guru - Nonki Takahashi's "How to Make a Turtle Maze Game" on TechNet Wiki
It's time to congratulate another June TechNet Guru winner! Nonki Takahashi is our Small Basic...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/17/2013
TechNet Wiki Awards System - INTERMEDIATE WIKI NINJAS
We're going to take a deeper look at the TechNet Wiki Awards System... Wiki Ninja Belts. Second are...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/16/2013
BizTalk Guru - Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task
It's time for our first June TechNet Guru winner! Ron Phillips (El Bo) is our BizTalk TechNet Guru...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/10/2013
TechNet Wiki Awards System - NOVICE WIKI NINJAS
We're going to take a deeper look at the TechNet Wiki Awards System... Wiki Ninja Belts. First are...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/08/2013
TechNet Wiki Awards System - Wiki Ninja Belts
TechNet Wiki Belts are an award system dedicated to TechNet Wiki. Many people will question why...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/06/2013
T-SQL Guru - SQL Server PIVOT
It's time for another May TechNet Guru winner! Naomi N is our T-SQL TechNet Guru for May! See more...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 07/02/2013
Windows Phone Development Guru - Retrieving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator
Congratulations to Isenthil, our Windows Phone Development Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/30/2013
SharePoint 2010 Guru - Adding Charts to Standard Webparts and Visual Webparts
Congratulations to our SharePoint Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/29/2013
T-SQL Guru - Dynamic Pivot on Multiple Columns
Naomi N is our TechNet Guru for May! See more about the Technology Guru TechNet Wiki for...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/23/2013
C# Guru - Spell Checking WinRT Component (C#, VB, HTML5/JavaScript)
Congratulations to our C# Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/21/2013
Who's going to be the June SSRS Guru?
What is TechNet Guru? One winner in each category will be selected each month for glory and...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/18/2013
All about the TechNet Wiki Community Council
Purpose The Community Council is a small group of members from both Microsoft and the Community. The...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/15/2013
How do You Earn Recognition Points and Achievement Medals on MSDN and TechNet?
Today's featured article: TechNet Wiki: How to Earn Recognition Points and Achievement Medals...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/13/2013
All About BizTalk Server 2010
Today's featured article: BizTalk Server 2010 ====================================== Introduction...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/12/2013
Where can you find MSDN and TechNet Forum Support?
Today's featured Article: MSDN and TechNet Forum Support Forum Issues Forum Click here for the...
Author: Ed Price - MSFT Date: 06/10/2013