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Introduction
January's competition has now closed.
February's Competition page is HERE
The articles are now being judged by the Wiki Council and Microsoft Employees who judge each category.
The results will be posted around mid-month.
If you contribute any new code, or solutions to problems in the following categories, please add your content (that you write for a Forum or Blog) to TechNet Wiki, and then add a link to your TechNet Wiki article below, to let us know.
This is a TechNet Wiki awards program, so we only want WIKI LINKS for articles created in January, not old external forum or gallery links. If you have already made a contribution on the forums or gallery, simply copy it into the wiki and reference the original article, like shown here.One winner in each category will be selected each month for glory and adoration by the MSDN/TechNet Ninjas and community as a whole. This includes a dedicated blog post in the Wiki Ninjas blog, a tweet from the Wiki Ninjas Twitter account, an announcement on your forum, and other acknowledgement from the community.
Winners will be voted on by five judges. The judges consist of 3 TechNet Wiki Community Council members and 2 Microsoft Employee SMEs (Subject Matter Experts -usually the people making the technologies). The judges will be looking for articles that are thorough, technically accurate, visually clear (images might help, but aren't necessary), and well written. (Any community member can help with the "technically accurate" part by reviewing the articles below and either fixing inaccuracies in the article or commenting on them--asking questions or suggesting fixes.)
The articles must be written in January 2014 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before January. Make sure you aren't taking credit for someone else's content (you have to be the author of the original content and of the Wiki article). The categories listed are targeted to the most popular forums/technologies and ones that we are able to support. We will add more categories as we go (please don't add more categories, instead, leave a comment at the bottom to suggest a new category).
How to Enter
1) Create a new TechNet article
YOU CAN COPY YOUR CONTRIBUTION FROM MSDN/TECHNET FORUMS OVER TO TECHNET WIKI (IN JANUARY) TO QUALIFY FOR THESE AWARDS. You can also create a new article not related to your forums contributions.
If you are copying and pasting your MSDN/TechNet forum solutions over to TechNet Wiki, please give some introduction to the problem, make sure your steps are clear, and then link to the original forum post. You can also paste in your blog posts (rather than forum content).A) Log into TechNet/MSDN with your Microsoft credentials
B) Add your content as an article to TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/add.aspx
2) Tell us about it
To add a link to your article:
A) Log into TechNet with your Microsoft credentialsB) Click the "Edit" tab, above this article title, and copy in the URL to your TechNet Wiki article into the appropriate section.
Categories
Add Your Contributions for January in the Sections Below...
NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in January 2014.
BizTalk
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BizTalk contribution here:
- BizTalk Services Bridges – Troubleshooting by Steef-Jan Wiggers
- Windows Azure BizTalk Services - Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) by René Brauwers
- How to create Biztalk Server 2013 VM on windows azure with few clicks by Mohit Gupta
- Using the SB-Messaging Adapter & ESB Toolkit to send messages to the Windows Azure Service Bus by Tomasso Groenendijk
- Use Windows Azure Biztalk Service (WABS) to transform flat file to XML by Mohit Gupta
- BizTalk Server: Dynamic Mapping Resolver by Suleiman Shakhtour
- Sysprep BizTalk Server by Colin Meade (this article is carried over from a previous month)
Forefront Identity Manager
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums links available below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your FIM contribution here:
- Installing BHold FIM Integration by Eihab Isaac
- How to create a FIM Synchronization Service custom attribute by Mr X
- How to prepare a FIM Management Agent Run Profile Script to be used in a Scheduled Task by Mr X
SharePoint 2010 / 2013
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of SharePoint contribution here
- SharePoint Online: A no-code solution to create and customize Access service app using Access 2013 by Daniel Christian
- SharePoint 2010: Reading List Items of a Large SharePoint List using Content Iterator by Chitvan Jain
- SharePoint Site Custom Web Part SQL Report Viewer Export to Excel Error by Mohammad Nizamuddin
- SharePoint 2010 : Create List with different list templates using ECMA Script by Nilesh Jain
- SharePoint 2010 Tutorial: Building a movie application with JEFS by Steven Andrews
- SharePoint: Create 2000 Domain Accounts with Profile Photos for a Development Environment by Matthew Yarlett
- SharePoint 2013: Deep integration of Yammer Search with SharePoint search by Rahul A Shinde
Small Basic
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Small Basic contribution here:
SQL BI and Power BI
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BI contribution here:
- Consume Web-Service via a SSIS Script Component by AB82
- Power Pivot: Dynamic Filtering Using Slicers Post Convert to Formulas by AB82
- Power Pivot: Casting DateTime to Date in SQL Server Source Query by Paras Doshi
- How to generate XML files in SSIS for each row of a SQL table without any custom code (No script task) by Firdous S
- How to generate incrementing numbers in SSIS using script component by Sqlsaga
- Reporting Services: Dynamic zoom for maps in Reporting Services 2008 R2 by AndrewBorgCardona
- SSRS: Working with Tablixes by Tim Pacl
SQL Server General and Database Engine
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your SQL Server contribution here:
- SQL Server Memory and Troubleshooting by Shanky
- When Using DBCC SHRINKFILE for log files can we use TRUNCATEONLY OPTION by Shanky
- SQL Server: Misleading Database Initial Size Label by Praveen Rayan D'sa
- How to partition an existing table in SQL Server by Sql Saga
- SQL Server Instant File Initialization by John Sansom
- SQL Server: Change the Login Password using PowerShell by John Sansom
- SQL Server 2012 Database Partitioning by joeydj
- Send Replication Alert along with query to find exact command by Mohan Kumar
- Replacing the collation of a SQL Server Database by Durval Ramos
Transact-SQL
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your T-SQL contribution here:
- How to remove duplicates from a table in SQL Server by SqlSaga
- Find list of all Foreign Keys in your database by SqlSaga
- SQL Query to check number of connections on Database by Mohammad Nizamuddin
- Convert VBA Code to Transact-SQL by Ronen Ariely (nickname pituach)
- T-SQL: How to put Grouped Results on the Same Line by Naomi N
- T-SQL: Calendar Table by Himanshu Sharma
- Script to generate drop / add constraint queries by Jayakumaur (JK)
- SQL Server - Effects Of Renaming a Column Of a Table by SathyanarrayananS
- T-SQL: PIVOT Ordered pair Columns by Saeid Hasani
Visual Basic
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your VB contribution here:
- DataBinding by .paul.
- Braille Code in .Net(VB/C#) by Paul Ishak
Visual C#
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your C# contribution here:
- Comparisn between System.Xml.XmlDocument and System.Xml.Linq.XDocument by chilberto
- Braille Code in .Net(VB/C#) by Paul Ishak
- Action, Func<TResult> and Predicate<T> Delegate by Jaliya Udagedara
- Asynchronous method call in C# by Mohammad Nizamuddin
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Windows Phone contribution here:
- Developing Applications for Low Memory Devices in Windows Phone by Saad Mahmood
- Parsing XML File in Windows Phone in NO TIME by Saad Mahmood
- Windows Phone 8: WriteableBitmap and app resume by Tiziano Cacioppolini
- Windows 8.1: Creating Dynamic Live Tiles from User Controls with XAML and VB by Damien Allan
- Windows 8.1: how to create a filters control like Health & Fitness and Food & Drink apps in XAML and C# by Andrea Domenichini
- Windows Phone 8: Seeding a Lex.DB Database for a windows phone app by Ken Tucker
- Getting Downloading file Attributes Through WebClient in Windows Phone by Rahber Ashraf
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your WPF contribution here:
- Asynchronous validation in WPF using the MVVM pattern and INotifyDataErrorInfo By Mr. Gal Ratner
- Data Validation in MVVM by Srithar
- Different ways to dynamically select DataTemplate for WPF ListView by Shweta Lodha
- WPF/MVVM: Binding to Read-Only Properties Using Behaviors by Magnus (MM8)
Windows Server
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your contribution here:
- AdminSDHolder, protected groups and Security propagator by Mr X
- How to deactivate Schema Objects in Active Directory by Mr X
- How to get the list of deactivated Schema Objects in Active Directory using Powershell by Mr X
- 10 Common Problems Causing Group Policy To Not Apply by Joseph Moody
- Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands - Server by Santhosh Sivarajan
- Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands - Active Directory by Santhosh Sivarajan
- How to get the number of computers per Windows Operating System in an Active Directory domain using Powershell by Mr X
- Building Your First Domain Controller On Windows 2012R2 by Brad Held
- Active Directory: Ambiguous Name Resolution by Richard Mueller
- Implementing Dynamic Access Control 2012R2 by Brad Held
- Migrating from a 2003 DC,DHCP to 2012R2 by Brad Held
- Disadvantages in Hyper-V snapshotting by Mr X
- Windows Server 2012: Basic Configuration with PowerShell by David M.achula (LePivert)
See Also
January Forum Announcements