The Microsoft TechNet Guru Awards! (September 2014)
All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, September 2014 !!!!
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.
Starting this month you will notice some articles are marked as failing to meet our minimum bar for quality or content.
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.
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BizTalk Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Johns-305 [boatseller] | BizTalk: Working with Preserve Interchange EDI Xml – Part 1 | Mandi Ohlinger: "This is a great How To article with the steps and terms clearly defined. If you want to preserve interchanges, you need to read this." TGN: "EDI is a big part of BizTalk, great wrap up, both articles." |
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Verma.Sumit | BizTalk Server - Default Pipelines | TGN: "Very nice article explaining the default pipelines "in-depth"." Mandi Ohlinger: "Great detailed information on the XML pipelines. Very informative read. " |
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Rahul_Madaan | BizTalk Server - Debatching multiple message types using Envelope Schema | Mandi Ohlinger: "A common task explained simply. Very effective." TGN: "Very nice tutorial. I would love to see some better images though, and a little better elaboration on the different steps, but overall a very good article." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- BizTalk: Working with Preserve Interchange EDI Xml – Part 2 by Johns-305 [boatseller]
TGN: "EDI is a big part of BizTalk, great wrap up, both articles." - BizTalk Server - Zombie Messages in Parallel Convoy by Rahul_Madaan
TGN: "Really nice article. And a great way of showing how Zombies occure. After reading this article you're a certified "zombie killer". :)"
Mandi Ohlinger: "This would be a better blog. There isn't much to it; it seems to just be stating a small fact rather than any useful information." - BizTalk Server - Disaster Recovery Strategies by Verma.Sumit
Mandi Ohlinger: "This seems to missing a lot of information. The topic provides an overview of these 3rd party (non-supported) method but that's it. It fails to mention any BizTalk specifics."
TGN: "I would not recommend people to use any other backup methods then the standard supported method by Microsoft when it comes to backing up BizTalk databases. But for the BizTalk Servers and for shares needed by BizTalk there's a lot of really great tips here."
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Exchange Server Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Rafael Mantovani | Exchange: Unable to Verify Information About Users Availability | Ed Price: "This is a good article with some good images. This article was originally in English, but because it was posted on the Portuguese Wiki, it got translated into Portuguese! The English version should be pasted into a new article on the English Wiki. Here is the English version: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/26759.nao-e-possivel-verificar-informacoes-de-disponibilidade-dos-usuarios/revision/7.aspx " |
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Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Eihab Isaac (MVP) | FIM 2010 R2: Coexistence Exchange Provisioning Scenario using PowerShell Management Agent | AM: "Eihab, thank you for continuing to make excellent contributions to the community. This is a useful reference for anyone needing to meet similar requirements without the service and portal." PG: "Nice article. Well designed!" Søren Granfeldt: "Great overview on real world challenges with managing diffrent Exchange versions using FIM. Second part wil really complement this article." |
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Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Chervine | Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning | JH: "Love it! One of my favorite articles on the wiki from last month." Ed Price: "Fantastic article! Incredibly well written with good details and helpful images. This Machine Learning topic is very important and timely right now!" |
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Alex Mang | What Are Scoring Profiles In Azure Search? | JH: "Alex has done a tremendous job with his library. Love it that he shares update on the library on the wiki." Ed Price: "Wow, I love all the explanations and detail. And this topic is incredibly valuable. Amazing job!" |
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saramgsilva | Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta : Connecting a Menu App to Azure Mobile Service | JH: "Great article with a lot of pictures. A good one!" Ed Price: "Great topic, Sara! Very thorough and well written!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- How to create the Azure Mobile Service in Azure Portal by saramgsilva
JH: "Simple but good!"
Ed Price: "Great topic with good link references that are spaced out. Good article!"
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Miscellaneous Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Brian Nadjiwon | How to Create and Use Enums in Powershell | Ed Price: "Wow, what a detailed article! Great depth and use of images! I think it's time for a PowerShell category!" TGN: "I LOVE ENUMS! Great explaining and a great article. Well done, Brian!" PG: "Nice, practical solution, clear explanation." |
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Adnan Umer | Understanding GPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 | Ed Price: " A fantastic Visual Studio article with great details and vivid images!" TGN: "Very valuable and a great toturiol on how to use the "GPU Usage tool"" |
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Britt Adams | Unexplained High CPU Usage on Intel E5 Processors | Ed Price: "Very thorough explanation! Great job! " TGN: "Wow, computer science is fun. Nice wrap-up and how-to. I loved it!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Error 0xC00000BE on Application Start by FZB
PG: "Nice, snappy article. Quick, clear and to the point. That's what a TNWiki article should be."
Ed Price: "Helpful solution to this error! Good contribution!"
TGN: "Nice article, would love to see an english picture of the error messages though." - How to Create and Use an Add-On for the PowerShell ISE by Brian Nadjiwon
TGN: "Brian, you made my two favorite articles this month, very good tutorial!"
PG: "Nice, practical solution, clear explanation."
Ed Price: "Another amazing PowerShell article! Great use of code snippets and images!" - PowerShell: script to get all SMTP Email addresses from Office 365 by Ike Ugochuku
PG: "Interesting item, nice script. Well designed article."
TGN: "Very nice script Ike!"
Ed Price: "Helpful script! It would also be good to upload this on TechNet Gallery and then link to it from the article. Great solution!" - Understand Relationship in Code using Code Maps by Adnan Umer
Ed Price: "Another great Visual Studio article, with deep explanations and helpful images!"
PG: "Very good"
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SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Vivek Jagga | SharePoint, Office 365 or a Hybrid Deployment? | Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice, I can see this one coming in real handy in comparison studies" |
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Inderjeet Singh | Common issue when using SharePoint 2013 Multi Tenant environment (Apps and User Profile Synchronization) | Jinchun Chen: "Nice article." Margriet Bruggeman: "Useful and not too much is written about this topics, which adds some bonus points" |
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Dan Christian | Tips and Tricks to Resolve Poject 2010 Server Migration Issues | Margriet Bruggeman: "Extensive KB-type article in case you need it" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Common troubleshooting step : SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 Performance issue \ Web Site slow by Inderjeet Singh
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Too complicated a topic to discuss in so little space. Nevertheless, contains some useful tips." - Download and Install Cumulative Update September 2014 on SharePoint server 2013 by Inderjeet Singh
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice, this will be a common problem for many. Have to wonder why MS made it more difficult than normal." - SharePoint Vanity URLs by John.Naguib
Margriet Bruggeman: "Short but useful nonetheless" - Remove WFE Role from a Farm by John Naguib
Margriet Bruggeman: "This one is less spectacular. I have an issue with the use of stsadm in this article, is the author saying this can't be done in PowerShell? " - SharePoint 2013 sites are not deleted by John Naguib
Margriet Bruggeman: "Also short, but useful. But, is the author saying Remove-SPSite is buggy?" - SharePoint 2013 and 2010 : The trial period for this product has expired by Inderjeet Singh
Margriet Bruggeman: "I guess this is one of the few scenarios where messing with the sps db makes sense, although we may wonder if this is software piracy?" - SharePoint search when browse Content Source, crawl log, etc I get error "The remote procedure call failed" (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE) by Inderjeet Singh
Margriet Bruggeman: "I've seen this error before, so if it solves the problem: great! However, this article does lack insight in the whys and hows which would make the article a lot more interesting."
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Small Basic Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Philip Munts | Small Basic: For Windows 8.1 Tablet | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great article for those (1) want to make apps for tablet form factors and (2) are looking to package a SB app into a package." Ed Price: "I love it! What an important topic!" |
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Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Emoji | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Another entry from Nonki which opens up new possibilities. This time Emoji and the font editing." Ed Price: "This is incredibly interesting!" |
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Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Dictionary | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Simple entry on a powerful feature" Ed Price: "Great overview of the Dictionary Object! Good job integrating the Known Issues and the See Also section!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Small Basic Known Issue: 26720 - Event Subroutines Should Be After They Are Registered by Nonki Takahashi
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Known issues are cool!"
Ed Price: "Great job on the Workaround!"
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SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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visakh16 | Finding SSIS Packages having References to a Table or Column | RB: "Interesting subject, with a lot of practical usage" Jinchun Chen: "Really helpful." PT: "Good article that addresses a specific problem and offers a solution. Thank you" |
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Ch. Rajen Singh | SSIS: Export Multiple File With Fixed Size | PT: "This is a good article, well-written and solves a real problem." Jinchun Chen: "Nice article." RB: "Interesting workaround for the fixed file size problem" |
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Ed Price - MSFT | Power BI Community Council | PT: "Great information about the purpose and composition of the Power BI Community Council to inform and raise awareness." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- How to show Measure values as either 0 or NULL in Cube? by Anil Maharjan
RB: "Nice walkthrough"
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
PT: "Your article has some good content. I suggest having it reviewed for language and proper grammar." - Adding Custom Formats Within Textbox Data by visakh16
PT: "Very brief"
RB: "Too trivial"
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SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Shanky | An Examination of Logging in Truncate Table Statement and Its Comparison With Delete Statement | Jinchun Chen: "Excellent" AM: "The best!" Ed Price: "Wow, Shanky! What an amazingly thorough and detailed article!" |
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Tulio Rosa | SQL Server Load Balancing | AM: "Also very good!" Jinchun Chen: "Excellent" Ed Price: "Fantastic topic, good job on the diagram, and great use of TechNet Gallery! Plus a Portuguese translation!" |
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Ashwin Menon | Get Notified when a database status changes | AM: "This is well explained" Ed Price: "Very thorough article! Good References section!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- How can I prevent IDENTITY column value jump by Durval Ramos
AM: "Nice article even though the title could be misinterpret. SQL Server doe not guarantee there will not be gaps in a column with identity property (i.e. transaction rollback). I would suggest adding CRASH, RESTART or FAILOVER to the title."
Ed Price: "Great job on the explanations, code snippets, images, References, and the Portuguese version! This is a fantastic contribution!"
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System Center Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Mr X | How to upload new Drivers in SCCM 2012 R2 | Peter Laker: "Very nice, thanks Mr X" Ed Price: "Wow. Great use of images to walk the reader through the process! Could benefit from a See Also and Additional Resources type of sections. Very thorough!" |
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Mr X | How to create a new Boot Image using SCCM 2012 R2 | Peter Laker: "Another good article!" Ed Price: "Short and sweet How To article! It's great to cover all these scenarios. Excellent addition to our System Center library of content!" |
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Transact-SQL Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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visakh16 | Full Outer Join - The Most Generic Join Statement | JS: "A good summary, though a bit generic and already available mutliple times on the internet. The sample (with data) could be a bit more crisp though." Jinchun Chen: "Very helpful." Ed Price: "I love the explanations at the top in the Context and Reasoning sections! And then the solution has a fantastic mix between explanations, illustrations, and the code snippets. And the links at the bottom help JOIN together the Join resources! Great job!" |
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Praveen Rayan D'sa | Dynamic pivot with column alias | Jinchun Chen: "Good." JS: "Make sure no to use a parameter declaration without a size of the variable type, like in VARCHAR, better use Varchar(YourSizeHere)." Ed Price: "Fantastic solution. Good job getting the references in there at the bottom!" |
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Saeid Hasani | Calling Stored Procedures Using Transact-SQL | JS: "A good write up for getting the feet wet with procedure, though missing some depth." Ed Price: "Wow! I love how you break out each section, explain it, and give the code snippet. It makes it very easy to read, understand, and get to the right section! To JS's point, it's probably better for beginners than advanced T-SQL gurus, but this content is still very valuable. Great example of the community giving advice and helping out with the content. Incredible article!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- T-SQL: Splitting a String into multiple columns by Durval Ramos
JS: "There are many Split functions out there available including those that are already used by the community"
Ed Price: "Great explanations and great job dividing each section, explaining it, and including images and code snippets! To JS's point, the References and See Also sections also tie this content set into some of the other sources that are used by the community. Great job!"
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Visual C# Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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João Sousa | ASP.NET WebAPI - Basic Redis | Peter Laker: "Nice WebAPI basics Joao!" JM: "This is best" |
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Jaliya Udagedara | Publishing and Subscribing using NServiceBus | JM: "Close second IMO" Peter Laker: "Great intro to NServiceBus! Thanks Jaliya!" |
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Adnan Umer | Calculating Percentage Similarity of two Strings in C# | JM: "I like this!" Peter Laker: "Awesome snippet and explanation, thanks Adnan!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- ASP.NET WebApi - Entity Framework Code First by João Sousa
JM: "Another good one"
Peter Laker: "This is good!" - ASP.NET WebApi - Use Redis as CacheManager by João Sousa
JM: "Nice work"
Peter Laker: "Interesting read!"
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Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Adnan Umer | Introducing ObjectGraphLibrary to visualize Stack and Heap | JH: "Good article about stack and heap visualization." TGN: "Hardcore stuff, but very valuable. Great article buddy!" |
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saramgsilva | Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta: Creating a BackOffice App for Menu App | JH: "Another great article by Sara! A lot of code snippets, pictures and explanations." TGN: "Great tutorial, well explained. And a bunch of screenshots. I loved it!" |
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Muiz Khan | Using Speech Recognition without Internet | TGN: "Nice one. I love articles that explain something in an easy understanding way. Great work Muiz!" JH: "Good explanation of offline capabilities of speech recognition." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- Declarations in Package App Manifest by Ashman Malik
JH: "Useful one."
TGN: "Very good tutorial, well explained (sharing is caring.. ;) )"
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Andy ONeill | WPF: CollectionView Tips | KJ: "Wow, very thorough!" Peter Laker: "Blindingly good article Andy!" |
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Magnus (MM8) | WPF/MVVM: Binding the DatePickerTextBox in WPF | KJ: "useful tip - could see needing to do this and searching for this article and finding it" Peter Laker: "Excellent work as always Magnus!" |
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Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Durval Ramos | Visio Portal | Peter Laker: "Awe inspiring portal from a Wiki legend!" Ed Price: "Great introduction, a lot of links, divided by sections, and it even has References and Return to Top links! Amazing article!" |
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Windows Server Technical Guru - September 2014 |
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Mr X | Getting Started with KMS (Key Management Service) | JM: "Another excellent article, great work." Philippe Levesque: "Really good documentation." Richard Mueller: "Good topic with good images to explain." Mark Parris: "Good insights, would be good to higlight also the improvements in 2012 and 2012 R2." |
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Kelly Bush | Authentication Policies and Authentication Silos – Restricting Domain Controller Access | Mark Parris: "Nice article, providing further insight into some of 2012 R2's capabilities." Richard Mueller: "Great article with lots of detail. Could use TOC and See Also section." JM: "An excellent article, thanks for the contribution!" Philippe Levesque: "Good article, it explain some security that we don't see much." |
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FZB | Windows Server: DNS Service - Negative Caching | Mark Parris: "useful tidbit, i have often seen shortttl zones for such records." JM: "A good article, however it needs a rewrite for clarity." Philippe Levesque: "Andy information to have, thanks for sharing !" Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation." |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Convert Server 2012/R2 Evaluation Edition to Retail by Darshana Jayathilake
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! A note for OEM limitation could be cool."
JM: "A good article, however additional information would help clarify the process."
Mark Parris: "Useful insight, but the server editions can only be upgraded, downgrades are not supported."
Richard Mueller: "Good topic but needs more. Could use links and references."Server 2012/2012 R2 Powershell DHCP Module by Darshana Jayathilake
Richard Mueller: "Great description of new Module. Needs a See Also section."
Mark Parris: "Looks like the start of something that we should grow out further."
Philippe Levesque: "A good well-around table turn to show all PowerShell cmd for DHCP !"-------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to September's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in October 2014'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
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- Anonymous
October 16, 2014
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October 16, 2014
Congrats to all :) - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Thank you Pete, Congrats all Guru. It's very nice to see knows face here - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
I got a bronze! Ha! Thank you to all our contributors! This was amazing content this month!
Congrats to Visakh for a great SSIS article!
Congrats to Joao and Jaliya on your amazing C# articles! - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
...Visakh won two gold medals! Great job! - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Thanks Saeid...Congratulations all Well done - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Missed DRC ... - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Congrats to everyone :)
Just FYI, the system center technical guru is missing - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Parabéns a todos!!!!! - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Hey Ed, I got a bronze too! Ha! Ha!
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you all for contributing. - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Thanks! :)
Congratulations to all the winners! - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Congrats and hope to get some more good articles :) - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Congrats Everyone :) - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Congrats to everyone.. - Anonymous
October 16, 2014
Congrats everyone :-)
Great articles! - Anonymous
October 17, 2014
Congrats to all winners and thanks to all contributors ...
Special thanks to Judges and Pete. - Anonymous
October 17, 2014
System Center added! Thanks for pointing that out Mr X, and sorry for the omission! - Anonymous
October 17, 2014
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
October 17, 2014
Yes I meant judge with initials DRC :) - Anonymous
October 17, 2014
Congrats . - Anonymous
October 18, 2014
Congrats to all members. - Anonymous
October 18, 2014
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
October 18, 2014
Thanks Ed for your encouraging comments! :-)
Thanks JS, your point is right and I think it's about the expectations for having advanced and deep technical articles. Hope my next article would be extremely deeper than this one! :-) - Anonymous
October 19, 2014
Thanks Margriet for your feedback, I appreciate it and I have updated my wikis based on your input - Anonymous
October 19, 2014
Congrats all Guru. - Anonymous
October 20, 2014
Congrats to all winners - Anonymous
October 20, 2014
ATTENTION GURU AWARD WINNERS: Has anybody won a Guru award and would like an interview? Please let us know! - Anonymous
October 20, 2014
Saeid, yes I'm a huge fan of two things that your T-SQL article does:
(1) For beginners. I'm always learning new things and so I'm a perpetual beginner! So I really appreciate articles that allow beginners to plug in so that they aren't scared away from learning!
(2) Collaboration in the comments. This is what the Wiki is all about. People help with direct edits and people help by discussing advice first. The engagement makes the article better and better! So I love to see when authors like you embrace this concept and make it happen! - Anonymous
October 21, 2014
Awesome articles. - Anonymous
October 21, 2014
Ed, your comment clears two guidelines that I also love them. I try to follow these two points in every article I was written since my first steps in this community. I'm so proud to see this feedback. But, I think I have to still work creatively and so hard to achieve other guidelines which can make our articles better and better as you said. Thanks! :-) - Anonymous
October 21, 2014
Thanks for award :)
Will make sure I improve in coming articles :) - Anonymous
October 22, 2014
Inderjeet, well I think it helps when you get some clear notes like from Margriet. Congratulations on the Silver! You earned it! - Anonymous
October 26, 2014
What I sincerely feel is that these medals should be get added to profile medals, so that we can have one consolidated view of all of those in single place, I do not know how easy or hard for the backend team to do so. - Anonymous
November 11, 2014
Após alguns dias, finalmente ocorreram as tão aguardadas alterações na Home Page do nosso TechNet Wiki .
O anúncio dos Artigos em Destaque deste mês de Setembro chega valorizando ainda mais os Portais TechNet - Anonymous
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