Introduction

April's competition has now closed.























June contributions page is HERE

May results are 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 MAY, 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 May 2014 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before May. 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 MAY) 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 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 MAY in the Sections Below...

NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in MAY 2014.

Microsoft Azure

The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Azure contribution here:

• Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)
• The Move to the New Azure SQL Database Tiers by Alex Mang
• Separating Insights Data In Visual Studio Online Application Insights For Production And Staging Cloud Services by Alex Mang
• Microsoft Azure - Remote Debbuging How To? by João Sousa

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: Using an Orchestration Sync or Async by boatseller
• BizTalk 2010: Call SSO from Orchestration by Peter Lindgren
• Automating BizTalk BTDF Generated MSI Deployments in Multi Server Environment By Ravindar Thati
• Exposing data through BizTalk Service Hybrid Connections by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• Using the ESB Toolkit and the Sentinet Resolver to dynamically resolve Web Service Endpoints by Tomasso Groenendijk
• Replace with "Article Name" by "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)

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:

• Forefront Identity Manager - RCDC - Regular Expression by Sheldon.Jaquay
• Installing Oracle MA for FIM R2 on Windows 2012 by Scott Eastin

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

• Find email listed for access requests in SharePoint 2010/2013 By Marrell Sanders
• Unable to restore site collection issue By Inderjeet Singh
• Restore Mistakenly deleted site collection without any backup By Inderjeet Singh
• Resolve InfoPath Web Form Issue on Public Websites by Dan Christian
• Build a loop workflow using SharePoint 2010 by Dan Christian
• Export User Profile Properties using CSOM by Geetanjali Arora

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:

• Known Issues about Microsoft Small Basic v1.0 by Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic Known Issue: 24270 - Shape Image is Not Zoomed from Center in Remote by Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic Known Issue: 24406 - Shapes.GetOpacity() Causes Cast Error by Nonki Takahashi
• Programming Home Projects with Microsoft Small Basic: Chapter 1: Writing Programs Using Small Basic by Philip Conrod and Ed Price
• Programming Home Projects with Microsoft Small Basic: Chapter 6: Flash Card Math Quiz Project by Philip Conrod and Ed Price
• Small Basic: Variable by Nonki Takahashi

SQL BI & 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:

• SSAS – Ignore unrelated dimension or not by Sherry Li
• SSIS - Event Handling with "OnError" ou "OnTaskFailed" by Durval Ramos
• Expansion of Time dimension in Analysis Service By S Kamath

SQL Server General & 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:

• 5 Top Features Your Company Can Use in SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition by Richard Douglas
• SQL Server installation error Could Not  Find Database Engine Startup Handle By  Shanky
• Curious Case Of Logging In Online and Offline Index Rebuild In Full Recovery Model By Shanky
• SQL Server: Be aware of the correct data type for predicates in queries by Uwe Ricken
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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:

• System Center Operations Manager 2012 - Monitoring the Monitor By W P Chomak
• System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Capacity Limits for URL Monitoring By W P Chomak
• System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Customizing E-Mail Notifications By W P Chomak
• System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Install applications in a task sequence based on AD-Groups  By Christoffer S
• System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Add Powershell – Active Directory module in Windows PE By Christoffer S
• Central Management of DSRM password on Domain Controllers using 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:

• Extending SYS.Geometry to Utilize Temporal Data by Rogge H
• Whats the limit of UniqueKey constraints on a table(2008 and above)...its 999 or 1000? By Sarat Babu(SS) 
• T-SQL: Random Equal Distribution by Naomi N
• DataCleanUp() Function Implementation in MS SQL Server by Hasham Niaz

Microsoft Visio

The TechNet Guru competition is announced in the forums, links are listed below.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Visio contribution here:

• How to export your Orchestrator Runbooks to Visio and Word by Mr X

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 "Profile Name" (each hyperlinked to the article and the author profile urls)

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:

• Using 64-bit shortcuts from a 32-bit application by Critical_stop
• Calling WCF Service from a Stored Procedure in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 by Jaliya Udagedara
• ASP.NET MVC 5 - Bootstrap 3.0 in 3 Steps 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:

• WindowsPhone Store 8.1 vs WindowsPhone 8: Launchers and Choosers(C#-XAML) by SubramanyamRaju.B
• WindowsPhone Facebook Integration:How to post message/image to FaceBook Fan Page(C#-XAML) by SubramanyamRaju.B
• Blend for WindowsPhone - (Overview) by  Saad Mahmood
• BLEND for Windows Phone (Creating New WindowsPhone Project in BLEND) by Saad Mahmood
• Blend for WindowsPhone (Application Bar and TextBox input Scope) by  Saad Mahmood
• Some magical operations in Expressions Blend (Windows & Windows Phone) by Saad Mahmood
• Clipping | Crop Images in Expression Blend (Windows & WindowsPhone) by Saad Mahmood
• Removing a object while your app is running using behaviors in Blend (Windows Phone & Windows ) by Saad Mahmood
• Creating a custom control in Expression Blend with Custom Properties (WindowsPhone & Store) by Saad Mahmood
• Windows Phone 8.1 - Read/Save Settings IsolatedStorage by João Sousa
• Windows Store Application (8.1) - Read/Save SettingsRoaming by João Sousa
• Authentication using Facebook, Google and Microsoft account in WP8.0 App (MVVM) By Sara Silva
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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:

• WPF/MVVM: Merging Cells In a ListView 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:

• Detailed Concepts:Secure Channel Explained by Mahdi Tehrani
• How to implement User Activity Recording for AD-Integrated Critical Servers by combining the use of Group Policy, Powershell and Orchestrator by Mr X
• How Domain Controllers are located in Windows by Mr X

Wiki and Portals

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:

• TechNet Guru Competition: Judging System Explanation by XAML guy (Peter laker)
• TechNet Wiki Persian Council by Payman Biukaghazadeh
• Wiki: Best Practices for building TechNet Wiki Portals by Durval Ramos

Miscellaneous

• How To Put A Password On A Folder by Bob Blork

See Also

• TechNet Guru Contributions
• List of Award Winning TechNet Guru Articles

This Month's Forum Announcements

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b79aa9a2-3e1f-4d49-b4eb-37107dd98a76/mayday-biztalk-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=biztalkgeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3249c755-9632-44e3-9923-5c6424260f3c/mayday-fim-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=ilm2

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/0a78a859-38d1-4546-9e2f-60a2d586d6a5/mayday-sharepoint-2010-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/475e5f83-8f5e-483e-a938-f59cf9a30dce/mayday-sharepoint-2010-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2193e1c4-580c-48af-b5fa-03038331cda8/mayday-small-basic-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=smallbasic

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/f0dba676-a843-4f8b-bf60-8696aa2f53a6/mayday-ssas-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sqlanalysisservices

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/1d761ddc-6d4d-4f8f-a825-1f7d7fcc40c9/mayday-power-pivot-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/a1b8e437-094e-4905-976c-c7dc185e7a45/mayday-ss-dbe-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sqldatabaseengine

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/7cfbb6d0-aa9a-432d-9497-d67a773de839/mayday-ssrs-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sqlreportingservices

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/dfa62f8b-5383-41d4-95ab-57052398b723/mayday-ssis-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sqlintegrationservices

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/101e3c08-3720-481f-8f91-0754d031e66b/mayday-tsql-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=transactsql

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/5eae7eac-a774-4092-87f9-b9d810dba680/mayday-vb-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=vbgeneral

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/c719d6a9-2084-4979-9c8a-f3a4c53c7783/mayday-c-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=csharpgeneral

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/wpapps/en-US/dc6e704a-d572-4df2-8ddc-911889298d01/mayday-windows-phone-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=wpdevelop

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/778f4f1a-2b73-46eb-b477-797ea60748b4/mayday-store-app-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=winappswithcsharp

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/08e877ad-68be-43db-9142-2dae990e3594/mayday-wpf-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=wpf

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/31f7474e-b720-403c-863a-2264a1c07274/mayday-windows-server-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=windowsserversolutionssdk

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7700a922-835f-451a-9316-daaa40ed282b/mayday-windows-server-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=winserver8gen

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/df7999f7-b535-43b8-a533-5ae35db62074/mayday-windows-server-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=winservergen

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/c902a7ce-4894-4dd7-acf3-b2556aa54497/mayday-sql-server-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=sqlgetstarted

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c7073469-e5e4-4b4f-8f78-c4da2779176c/mayday-windows-server-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=winserverDS

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/8e1a279e-e052-4bc7-81f3-78cb46438711/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=configmgrgeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e84822ae-0137-4219-a1a0-b4dec5acb48f/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=configmanagergeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/de6cf0e0-9d0a-4729-b0c1-c2364c715052/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=operationsmanagergeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4eef9c49-fce1-4a81-9aed-afe3c1083086/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=dataprotectionmanager

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3cb8ef33-35c5-43df-94d3-09bd12f53851/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=scogeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/0b500b0a-01a9-4c97-bffe-21308442fc21/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=systemcenterservicemanager

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/25fd3dc5-7f24-4c0b-9e51-abf5783b7d09/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=virtualmachinemanager

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8cbce412-9c3d-44e5-b219-e3c38cec8e52/mayday-system-center-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=appcontroller

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/a57842ec-f500-451e-9cba-f57a3ed8707d/mayday-azure-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=windowsazuredevelopment

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/a1d7abd6-91db-426a-9d5e-63c51df62e5a/mayday-azure-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/28d64e78-9951-452a-916d-b89cbe5cd234/mayday-tn-wiki-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=tnwiki

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/e57713e9-6021-4d45-8339-036d414f76ce/mayday-visio-guru-urgently-required-for-love-and-glory-from-all-the-community?forum=visiogeneral