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Introduction

August's competition has now closed.







The winners are HERE.

September competition is HERE. Good luck!







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 AUGUST, 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 August 2014 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before August. 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 AUGUST) 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 AUGUST in the Sections Below...

NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in AUGUST 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:

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:

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:

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

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 & 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 & 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:

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:

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:

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 Azure contribution here:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Miscellaneous

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

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See Also

This Month's Forum Announcements

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/a3c1c932-a073-4132-a74f-8ce1b805091a/august-store-app-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-store-app?forum=winappswithcsharp

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/9d42852d-2cd8-40e8-a14a-8c3ffff32dc4/august-wpf-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-wpf?forum=wpf

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/905c4aee-250b-43b7-8f3d-e1086b2e8703/august-windows-server-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-windows-server?forum=windowsserversolutionssdk

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3cbd1874-30d0-427f-a9cd-cdde53bf5281/august-windows-server-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-windows-server?forum=winserver8gen

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e9aed0e2-a392-41af-873a-4ea6e5166eae/august-windows-server-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-windows-server?forum=winservergen

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/eb00ed68-6327-43a3-929b-d4393638a7bf/august-sql-server-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-sql-server?forum=sqlgetstarted

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/34bf42d8-65ac-4020-942f-b298a8d83ac4/august-windows-server-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-windows-server?forum=winserverDS

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/35484adc-de90-40b5-a011-6e32f39b2b58/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=configmgrgeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/91040b2a-bc3d-4e31-a170-657efba829ef/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=configmanagergeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/1b47021c-fc61-4195-a22e-9b7493428b6b/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=operationsmanagergeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f02eeed7-22df-4a68-b856-d5c4affe710c/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=dataprotectionmanager

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/56e4948b-49fd-4efa-a998-d135803ca02c/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=scogeneral

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/e4da4125-9187-4f44-8989-fb2ab82a4e2a/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=systemcenterservicemanager

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/a1ada521-16f7-4c50-abf3-eff90593d5f7/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=virtualmachinemanager

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c0e014e0-d802-4d7c-8977-b39a3275454a/august-system-center-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-system-center?forum=appcontroller

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/b6598f7c-fe57-4150-ac90-849057a7bd49/august-azure-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-azure?forum=windowsazuredevelopment

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/e785a821-f813-4e80-8094-8cdab0743188/august-azure-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-azure?forum=WAVirtualMachinesforWindows

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/52c7739a-9982-4b07-a749-58b49caa5cfe/august-tn-wiki-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-tn-wiki?forum=tnwiki

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/bf451e36-a3dd-41c4-b14b-1c631068eaa7/august-visio-guru-festival-of-the-awesome-visio?forum=visiogeneral

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkgeneral/thread/d5f7dda4-c1e8-4d9c-9619-1982f0a0219a/#d5f7dda4-c1e8-4d9c-9619-1982f0a0219a

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneralprevious/thread/37456363-0c10-4211-a50f-f4afac38a1bc/#37456363-0c10-4211-a50f-f4afac38a1bc

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopmentprevious/thread/653f1180-1f8e-4b5f-bb00-601e8df1b89f/#653f1180-1f8e-4b5f-bb00-601e8df1b89f

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbasic/thread/9190863b-f727-4bb4-92b9-d1f890bd2b13/#9190863b-f727-4bb4-92b9-d1f890bd2b13

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlanalysisservices/thread/a8888c2c-2790-4c2c-a83e-ecf02eb3b84c/#a8888c2c-2790-4c2c-a83e-ecf02eb3b84c

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel/thread/b2e5aef4-b141-4577-9e4e-1962eea1cd8a/#b2e5aef4-b141-4577-9e4e-1962eea1cd8a

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldatabaseengine/thread/2fc5bd3b-a3ed-40db-916f-233645e812ff/#2fc5bd3b-a3ed-40db-916f-233645e812ff

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/1a827c15-d7b0-4941-a853-eccc84ecf2e2/#1a827c15-d7b0-4941-a853-eccc84ecf2e2

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlintegrationservices/thread/d6bfc721-394e-47ea-b543-3991b9d01dd1/#d6bfc721-394e-47ea-b543-3991b9d01dd1

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/e27ce181-61c1-4e84-8990-2b5af9550ead/#e27ce181-61c1-4e84-8990-2b5af9550ead

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/aec3f42f-1710-4e7a-bb13-cf4cbe1c1330/#aec3f42f-1710-4e7a-bb13-cf4cbe1c1330

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/6f07f59b-2423-41b6-bf85-6367c594cd69/#6f07f59b-2423-41b6-bf85-6367c594cd69