Introduction
February's competition has now closed.
March's competition page is HERE.
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 February, 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 February 2014 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before February. 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 FEBRUARY) TO QUALIFY FOR THESE AWARDS. You can also create a new article not related to your forums contributions.
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%20
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).
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 February in the Sections Below...
NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in February 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:
- Using Windows Azure BizTalk Services to Insert XML Messages into an Azure SQL Server by Mohit Gupta
- Using Windows Azure Biztalk Service to receive EDI file from multiple partner and convert to XML by Mohit Gupta
- BizTalk Server : How Map Works on Port Level by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
- A Multi-Type Flat File Assembler for Multi-Part Messages by Peter Lindgren
- Windows Azure BizTalk Services Operations: Backup and Restore by Steef-Jan Wiggers
- Migrating BizTalk Server maps to Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) maps by Sandro Pereira
- Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Upgrade to February 2014 SDK by Lex Hegt
- How to integrate Two way WCF Service with Windows Azure Biztalk Services by Mohit Gupta
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:
- Demystify Kerberos setup with FIM 2010 R2 with SSPR by James Resue
- Handling a composite type request for multivalued attributes by Majd Andoni
- FIM 2010 R2 & BHold: How to create and use Supervisor Role by Eihab Isaac
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
- How to update parent folders when child contents are modified by Steven Andrews
- Custom BCS connector for Search with Security Trimming, Batching and Incremental Crawling by Nitin Gupta
- Search Service Application Issue with AAM by Dan Christian
- SharePoint URL Rewrite by Dan Christian
- PowerShell 3.0 issue with SharePoint 2010 by Mohammad Nizamuddin
- Device Channels in SharePoint 2013 by Geetanjali Arora
- How to find custom columns that are used in lists within a site programmatically by Ramakrishnaraja
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:
- Olympics - Small Basic Style! by Joe Dwyer (DwyerTech)
- How to Install Small Basic onto Windows 8.1 by Nonki Takahashi
- Small Basic: Color by Nonki Takahashi
- Small Basic Known Issue: 23257 - GraphicsWindow.GetPixel() Returns Alpha Blending Color in Remote by Nonki Takahashi
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:
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:
- Automate database migration between SQL Server Instances by Ahmad Osama
- SQL Server: Instant File Initialization Exceptions by Praveen Rayan D'sa
- Ghost "Rows" Buster in SQL Server by Durval Ramos
- Effective use of Keyboard Shortcuts with SQL Server Management Studio by Jayakumaur (JK)
System Center
The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your System Center contribution here:
- SCOM 2012 VSAE – Extend Microsoft.Windows.Computer Class with Powershell and Active Directory by ChristophMaresch
- How to manage Pending Reboots of your AD-Integrated servers using Orchestrator by Mr X
- How to suppress the system restart on devices in a Software Updates Automatic Deployment Rule by Mr X
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:
- T-SQL : enable/disable an alert by M. Mahfoud EL HOUDAIGUI
- T-SQL: the primordial Alerts (Best Practices) by M. Mahfoud EL HOUDAIGUI
- T-SQL : create and test an alert by M. Mahfoud EL HOUDAIGUI
- T-SQL : Performing row wise string operations in SQL Server by Jayakumaur (JK)
- T-SQL - Understanding Triggers by Himanshu Sharma
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:
- <Replace with Article Name by Author Name (hyper-linked to article and msdn/technet user profile)
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:
- Avoiding deadlock in async/await by Tonchi91
- Quick note on Microsoft.Net Thread.Start, Delegate.BeginInvoke, Control.BeginInvoke by Mohammad Nizamuddin
- How to Publish ASP.NET MVC Web Application to Windows Azure by João Sousa
- Windows Azure Getting Started - Basic Operations on Blob Storage by João Sousa
- ASP.NET MVC 5 - Routing by João Sousa
- Lock Statement in C# by Jaliya Udagedara
- Analogy on BackgroundWorker thread in C# by Shweta Lodha
- Overload Resolution Revisited by Shweta Lodha
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:
- A Collection of Useful MVVM Tricks by Mcosmin
- C# helper class for parse Foursquare venue API in Windows Phone by Isham Mohamed
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:
- Trick To Use A ResourceDictionary Only When In Design Mode by dev hedgehog
- Using the Event Aggregator Pattern to Communicate Between View Models 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:
- Troubleshooting - WMI quota voilation causing slow logon on domain controllers by Himanshu.rana
- Windows Server - Terminal Services - Set Default Printer with a local Script by Yagmoth555
- Configuring a two node Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster on Hyper V using iSCSI by NeoHypocrite
- Active Directory: Attributes in the Partial Attribute Set by Richard Mueller
- Windows Server: Top Spooler Issues by Yagmoth555
- How to manage your AD-integrated servers Life Cycle in virtualized environments by using Powershell by Mr X
- How to use Powershell to notify Active Directory users about password expiry by Mr X
- How to force an immediate refresh of Group Policy settings on domain-joined computers by Mr X
Wiki and Portals
This new category is for new articles ABOUT TechNet Wiki itself, or portal pages (lists of links)
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:
- Wiki: Format XML Markup using Notepad++ by Matthew Yarlett
- The CodePlex Corner (CodePlex Project Discussion Portal) by Steven Andrews
- Article Spotlight by Durval Ramos
- Windows Azure Portal by Carsten Siemens
- Yammer Portal by Benoit Jester - MTFC
See Also
February Forum Announcements
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a9bc2c95-5933-4464-a385-e928cc989d0a/spread-the-love-be-our-biztalk-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=biztalkgeneral
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1e6acfc4-70ad-4019-84e5-56b4ce6600a4/spread-the-love-be-our-fim-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=ilm2
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/db37f6a4-9b3b-4e59-9369-a2dbd8def0eb/spread-the-love-be-our-sharepoint-2010-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/93ba8b22-b073-43dc-a39d-c59ecb3a24f2/spread-the-love-be-our-sharepoint-2010-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0a17af45-10c6-48cf-8ea5-97782545332c/spread-the-love-be-our-small-basic-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=smallbasic
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/7c4d8094-22ec-4010-96e4-2ae58ff64c5b/spread-the-love-be-our-sql-server-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sqlgetstarted
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/2867a350-a428-4d47-92cf-3cbb027fbc56/spread-the-love-be-our-ss-dbe-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sqldatabaseengine
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/d7224bbc-ce2b-4264-a10f-b0f2c52833a5/spread-the-love-be-our-ssas-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sqlanalysisservices
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/0fa2c9c6-5ad1-4919-8cb5-b39e84879a54/spread-the-love-be-our-power-pivot-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/e34534de-2e1b-4fe9-92c2-2cfe928318de/spread-the-love-be-our-ssrs-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sqlreportingservices
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/4c10cfb7-03e1-4ae6-b43c-e7b7f63bef07/spread-the-love-be-our-ssis-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=sqlintegrationservices
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/e884daaf-e58f-4097-95ca-7e0859dd5d44/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=configmgrgeneral
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/564cb837-b372-4f15-9161-76efcd8f4682/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=configmanagergeneral
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/fbebc258-a0d7-4a9b-90fa-8b013e0db179/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=operationsmanagergeneral
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a2579ef9-6f8e-4a28-96a3-c44984e359fb/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=dataprotectionmanager
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cfe38ad8-b0ea-4f7d-b6c7-c312a7281f3b/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=scogeneral
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/76ba2170-0760-47b8-80ae-0a09d925c786/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=systemcenterservicemanager
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/ad6a4ec4-4a26-4d76-b949-eb966860d0d5/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=virtualmachinemanager
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a3428748-7e6a-4859-bf94-22c37ef78ea7/spread-the-love-be-our-system-center-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=appcontroller
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/9dc17633-1dc4-42b5-9a3d-de73ff477309/spread-the-love-be-our-tsql-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=transactsql
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/ac4e57a4-3aff-46a8-8fbf-33fa8d1bba24/spread-the-love-be-our-vb-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=vbgeneral
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/7f8bfc70-85f1-4039-8a60-4a11603c4edd/spread-the-love-be-our-c-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=csharpgeneral
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/wpapps/en-US/4dd13cb0-4a52-4f68-bd9b-2841854d9630/spread-the-love-be-our-windows-phone-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=wpdevelop
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/7f6b4bb2-1c86-4407-aa99-98c2bd77ca55/spread-the-love-be-our-store-app-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=winappswithcsharp
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/55a8ede3-29bd-4752-a77e-0bb1dc582cae/spread-the-love-be-our-wpf-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=wpf
- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bd371e07-7d5c-4ae8-b14a-396713aa9c2c/spread-the-love-be-our-windows-server-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=windowsserversolutionssdk
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2d0c2eff-8154-4077-b24d-138cb8657e01/spread-the-love-be-our-windows-server-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=winserver8gen
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/82be18b5-1065-4ec7-bfd9-c6aa7532a74e/spread-the-love-be-our-windows-server-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=winservergen
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c42fa794-8d88-4c51-8be6-9f6f64d62528/spread-the-love-be-our-windows-server-technet-guru-this-valentines?forum=winserverDS
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f149b4cf-fe19-4003-b1c2-161a34e10fac/spread-the-love-be-our-technet-wiki-guru-this-valentines?forum=tnwiki