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Introduction
March's competition has now closed.
April'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 MARCH, 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 March 2014 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before March. 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 MARCH) 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
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 credentials
B) 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 March in the Sections Below...
NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they
MUST be written in March 2014.
BizTalk
Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BizTalk contribution here:
- Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit by Tomasso Groenendijk
- How and in what cases Property demotion works in BizTalk by Ravindar Thati
- Detecting a Missing Message by boatseller
- Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue by Steef-Jan Wiggers
- BizTalk Adapter Service Installation (February 2014 Update) by Colin Meade
- Biztalk: Create Repeating Records From Comma-Separated Values by Peter Lindgren
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:
- FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features By Giriraj Singh
- FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes Side By Side By Micah Rowland
- FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process 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
- SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet by Matthew Yarlett
- SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell by Rahul A Shinde
- SharePoint 2010: Configure Navigation Settings in a Sandbox Solution by Geetanjali Arora
- SharePoint Online: Add Advanced Search Web Part by Michaelle de las Alas
- SharePoint Online: Create Search Managed Property by Michaelle de las Alas
- SharePoint Online: Use a Search Managed Property on Property Restrictions of Advanced Search Web Part by Michaelle de las Alas
- SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments by Matthew Yarlett
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:
- Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window by Nonki Takahashi
- Small Basic Known Issue: 23589 - Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote by Nonki Takahashi
- Small Basic: Expression 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:
- A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets by Michael Amadi
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:
- managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan by chandra sekhar pathivada
- Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL Server restart by Shanky
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 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login alert ) by Omar Lopez (loplim)
- Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM by Idan Vexler
- How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator 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:
- Split Date Range into Months by Ronen Ariely (nickname pituach)
- Fully automated SQL Server Restore Script by Praveen Rayan D'sa
- Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server by Jayakumaur (JK)
- Paging a Query with SQL Server by Durval Ramos
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:
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:
- C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application by Raghunathan S
- Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C# by Raghunathan S
- Dynamic method invocation with Generics by CatfisAndGrits
- Use of “Enumerable.Cast” and “Enumerable.OfType” in C# by Jaliya Udagedara
- ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs by João Sousa
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:
- Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch. by Isham Mohamed.
- The Performance Analyzer Paradox by mcosmin
- Application rating reminder in Windows Phone by Rahber
- Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application by Ibraheem Osama 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 StaticResource With Path by dev hedgehog
- WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View 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:
- How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure by Mr X
- Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO by Mahdi Tehrani
- How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM by Mr X
- Frequent account lockout troubleshooting by Manjunath Sullad
- Corrupt er broken performance counters Windows Server by Jesper Arnecke
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: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr by Matthew Yarlett
- VBA & VBS Portal by Durval Ramos
- Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal by Mr X
See Also
This Month's Forum Announcements
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ad464696-fc61-4325-b34e-7f205f99a8ab/you-can-be-our-next-spring-biztalk-guru-?forum=biztalkgeneral http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ad6a2f6b-a046-4897-825d-fb85278bc1b4/you-can-be-our-next-spring-wiki-portals-guru-?forum=tnwiki