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Introduction
This article captures the technical contribution from
Subhro Majumder to the TechNet Community. All the publications, scripts, awards and other contributions which are associated with Subhro has been captured
in this single article.
Subhro Majumder is an Infrastructure Architect, with more than 15 years of industry experience. He started his career with Windows Server and Active Directory, followed by VMware,AWS and Azure.
Subhro Majumder is an Infrastructure Architect, with more than 15 years of industry experience. He started his career with Windows Server and Active Directory, followed by VMware,AWS and Azure.
In a career spanned over 15 years, Subhro has helped many large enterprises in planning, designing and managing their IT infrastructure which are based on Windows Server, Active Directory, Certificate Services, VMware and Azure.
Subhro is a regular contributor at Microsoft TechNet Wiki, and has published many wiki articles. Many of Subhro's articles have received TechNet Guru Award, and went viral.Most of the articles are related to Azure, Windows Server
and Active Directory. He has also published many PowerShell scripts in Microsoft TechNet Gallery. The total download count of his PowerShell scripts has crossed 7000.
Subhro has done global certifications on Azure, Windows Server and AWS.
TechNet Wiki Articles
Subhro has published articles in 3 major categories :- Azure
- Active Directory
- Windows Server
Azure
- Azure Key Vault : Overview (Jan 2019)
- Azure Storage : Introduction (Dec 2018)
- Azure Active Directory: Introduction to Managed Identities for Azure Resources (Dec 2018)
- Azure Load Balancer: Features and Deployment Scenarios (Nov 2018)
- Azure Site Recovery : Migrate Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Azure (Nov 2018)
- Azure Site Recovery: Introduction (Nov 2018)
- Azure AD Connect: User Consolidation (July 2018)
- Azure Active Directory: Introduction (May 2018)
Active Directory
- Active Directory : Automate Backup Success-Failure Notification (Sep 2018)
- Group Policy : Filtering and Permission (Aug 2018)
- Active Directory Certificate Services - Part 1 : Digital Certificate
Overview (April 2018)
- Active Directory: Automate System State Backup (March 2018)
- Active Directory Replication Metadata (February 2018)
- Active Directory: How to add custom attribute to Schema (Jan 2018)
- Group Policy: Protect your Servers against Meltdown/Spectre (Intel chipset vulnerability) (Jan 2018)
- Active Directory: Time Synchronization (Dec 2017)
- Active Directory: Checklist for Decommissioning a Domain Controller (Dec 2017)
- Active Directory Forest Trust: Attention Points (Dec 2017)
- Active Directory Repadmin Tool (Nov 2017)
Windows Server
- Windows Server: Creating a DNS Reverse Lookup Zone with Smaller Zones (Sep 2018)
- Windows Server : Integration between DNS and DHCP (Aug 2018)
- SubInACL: A complete solution to
configure security permission (June 2018)
- Deployment of a Hyper-V Failover Cluster (Using PowerShell) (Nov 2017)
PowerShell Scripts
Subhro started publishing PowerShell scripts for Active Directory and Windows Server. These days he is also publishing scripts related to Azure.
You can get all PowerShell scripts which are published by Subhro, in this link.
Below list captures all the scripts published by Subhro.
You can get all PowerShell scripts which are published by Subhro, in this link.
Below list captures all the scripts published by Subhro.
Azure
- Capture Azure VM Details (Nov 2018)
Windows Server & Active Directory
- Set and Remove DNS Records ACL (Nov 2018)
- Get Replication Report for Entire Forest (for all NTDS partitions) (June 2018)
- Capture Time Skew for Domain Controllers and Email the Report (June 2018)
- Get Owner of Multiple DNS Records (Feb 2018)
- Locate computer within entire forest and get the details (Jan 2018)
- Capture Registry values from multiple systems (Jan 2018)
- Get details and extend the account expiry dates of multiple users (Jan 2018)
- Get, Mirror,Append,Add AD Groups and Members (Dec 2017)
- Get and Set Preferred DNS Settings of multiple systems (Dec 2017)
- Generate Report of all Active Computers in a Domain or OU (Dec 2017)
- Get Application Pool Status from multiple IIS Server (Dec 2017)
- Get Patch Installation Status, Server Uptime and Services Stopped (Nov 2017)
- Get HTML Report of all Critical Events in Email (Nov 2017)
- Get all details of your AD Forest (Nov 2017)
- Automate Active Directory Replication Summary Report (April 2017)
- Get, Remove and Set DNS Forwarders for multiple DNS Servers (April 2017)
- Check, Enable and Disable OU Accidental Deletion Protection (April 2017)
- Run Health Check of Multiple Domain Controllers and Store the Result (March 2017)
- Lookup/ Create / Delete any Kind of DNS Records (Single and Bulk Entry) (March 2017)
Awards & Recognitions
TechNet Guru Awards
The TechNet Guru Awards is a monthly recognition program, which celebrates the technical articles on TechNet. The articles are contributed and nominated by wiki authors for the current month.
Each month, the contributions are assessed and scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts). From each category, 3 articles are chosen and are awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal based on the article score.
Subhro has won TechNet Guru medals for the following articles :
Recognition Points reflects the level of contribution you have made in the MSDN/TechNet community. Also, more recognition points generally earn more trust from the users and viewers who will follow your publications and scripts.
You earn recognition points from multiple sources like wiki articles, gallery scripts, helpful answers etc.
So far, Subhro has earned more than 6000 Recognition Points from the MSDN/TechNet community.
Achievement Medals show your accomplishments. While Recognition Points focus on the QUALITY of what you do, the Achievement Medals focus on the QUANTITY of what you do.
The below table highlights Subhro's achievements so far :
Subhro has been interviewed by TechNet Wiki Community, and the interview has been published in the below link :
Interview with a Windows Server, Azure and PowerShell Wiki Ninja – Subhro Majumder
Each month, the contributions are assessed and scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts). From each category, 3 articles are chosen and are awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal based on the article score.
Subhro has won TechNet Guru medals for the following articles :
- Azure Active Directory: Introduction to Managed Identities for Azure Resources won Bronze Medal in Dec 2018
- Azure Load Balancer: Features and Deployment Scenarios won Bronze Medal in Nov 2018
- Windows Server: Creating a DNS Reverse Lookup Zone with Smaller Zones won Gold Medal in Sep 2018
- Active Directory : Automate Backup Success-Failure Notification won Silver Medal in Sep 2018
- Windows Server : Integration between DNS and DHCP won Bronze Medal in Aug 2018
- Group Policy : Filtering and Permission won Silver Medal in Aug 2018
- Azure AD Connect: User Consolidation won Silver medal in July 2018
- SubInACL: A complete solution to configure security permission won Gold Medal in June 2018
- Azure Active Directory: Introduction won Bronze Medal in May 2018
- Active Directory Certificate Services - Part 1 : Digital Certificate Overview won Gold Medal in April 2018
- Active Directory: Automate System State Backup won Silver Medal in March 2018
- Active Directory Replication Metadata won Gold Medal in Feb 2018
- Active Directory: How to add custom attribute to Schema won Gold Medal in Jan 2018
- Group Policy: Protect your Servers against Meltdown/Spectre (Intel chipset vulnerability) won Silver Medal in Jan 2018
- Active Directory: Time Synchronization won Gold Medal in Dec 2017
Recognition Points and Achievement Medals
Recognition Points reflects the level of contribution you have made in the MSDN/TechNet community. Also, more recognition points generally earn more trust from the users and viewers who will follow your publications and scripts.
You earn recognition points from multiple sources like wiki articles, gallery scripts, helpful answers etc.
So far, Subhro has earned more than 6000 Recognition Points from the MSDN/TechNet community.
Achievement Medals show your accomplishments. While Recognition Points focus on the QUALITY of what you do, the Achievement Medals focus on the QUANTITY of what you do.
The below table highlights Subhro's achievements so far :
Community Interview
Subhro has been interviewed by TechNet Wiki Community, and the interview has been published in the below link :
Interview with a Windows Server, Azure and PowerShell Wiki Ninja – Subhro Majumder
Top Contributors Awards
Top Contributors Award is a weekly recognition program by TechNet Wiki community, to measure and publish top wiki contributors for that week. Contributions are measured from various perspective, and there are different category
of awards
So far Subhro has received total 12 Top Contributors awards, which are as follows :
- 02 Feb '19 : Most Revised Article Award for azure-key-vault-overview
- 22 Dec '18 : Most Revisions Award
- 24 Nov '18 : Most Revised Article Award for exploring-azure-load-balancer
- 01 Sep '18 : Most Revisions Award
- 01 Sep '18 : Most Revised Article Award for group-policy-filtering-and-permission
- 04 Aug '18 : Most Revised Article Award for azure-ad-connect-user-consolidation
- 12 May '18 : Most Revised Article Award for azure-active-directory-introduction
- 11 Feb '18 : Most Revised Article Award for active-directory-replication-metadata
- 11 Feb '18 : Ninja Edit Award for technet.microsoft
- 03 Feb '18 : Most Revised Article Award for active-directory-how-to-add-custom-attribute-to-schema
- 10 Dec '17 : Most Popular Article Award for active-directory-checklist-for-decommissioning-a-domain-controller
- 02 Dec '17 : Most Revised Article Award for troubleshoot-active-directory-replication-issues-with-repadmin
Impact on Community
What impact all these publications and scripts have made on the technical community?Microsoft provides few tools to assess the impact, which are as follows:
- For TechNet articles, Microsoft notifies the View Milestones once an article reaches a certain number of viewership.
- For TechNet scripts, the real time download count is available in the script gallery. There is also a rating system available for each script, where users can rate a script which they have used. They can also post questions in Q&A section and share their feedback.
Now let's assess Subhro's contribution with the help of these tools :
- Active Directory: Automate System State Backup : Reached 10,000 viewer count multiple times.
- Active Directory Forest Trust: Attention Points : Reached 5,000 viewer count on February 2019.
- Group Policy : Filtering and Permission : Reached 3,000 viewer count on January 2019.
- Windows Server : Integration between DNS and DHCP : Reached 3,000 viewer count on February 2019.
- Get all details of your AD Forest : This PowerShell script has reached 1200 download count.
- Automate Active Directory Replication Summary Report: This PowerShell script has exceeded 700 download count.
Identification of a Product Bug
Subhro has identified a bug in Microsoft Windows DNS Server, which can delete large number of reverse DNS records without any warning, while creating overlapping reverse lookup zones.Subhro has published a wiki article on this issue, and also reported the issue to Microsoft Support team. The team reproduced the issue in Microsoft lab and confirmed that this finding is true. They also informed that this issue would probably be fixed with the next release of Windows.
He has also uploaded a PowerShell script in the TechNet Gallery, which would help creating large number of DNS records within a short period of time.
See Also
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- TechNet Wiki: How to Earn Recognition Points and Achievement Medals
- How to Use TechNet Wiki to earn TechNet / MSDN Recognition Points and Achievement Medals
- TechNet Guru: The Most Frequent Award Winners
- Wiki Ninja Belt Rankings
- Wiki Life: User Pages
- Wiki: List Of User Pages
- TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees
- TechNet Wiki: Featured Article Teams