Welcome back for another summary of movers and shakers over the week across the MSDN and TechNet forums!

The top five answerers in the TechNet forums

Last 30 days
	Dave Patrick	119
	jrv	99
	Rachit Sikroria	70
	Jason Sandys	62
	PriyaranjanKS	59

Let's take a closer look at those five forum heroes...

	Dave Patrick
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since May 18, 2009 Biography [Microsoft MVP] Windows

	jrv
	Affiliations Microsoft Partner Website tech-comments.blo... Member Since Apr 9, 2005

Rachit Sikroria

I work at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website biztalkpages.blog... Member Since Dec 20, 2013 Contact   Biography Rachit Sikroria is a Microsoft MVP. He is working as BizTalk Server Consultant in Gurgaon, India. He has nearly 6 years of experience with EAI technologies. He is specialized in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 - 2016, Business processes (EAI / B2B & BPM), Service Oriented Systems, Microsoft .NET architecture & software development. He has worked in many exciting industries such as Commercial Aviation, Banking, Finance & Energy. He enjoys supporting the BizTalk Community through a continued participation on the MSDN/TechNet Forums.

	Jason Sandys
	I work at ... Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Website blog.configmgrftw... Member Since Jan 10, 2009 Contact Biography ...

	PriyaranjanKS
	Member Since Oct 21, 2011 Biography Priyaranjan (Priyan) is a SharePoint developer. He has worked on SharePoint iterations 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. He also has hands on experience with Asp.net, C#, Javascript, Jquery, Ajax, JSON, Web Service, WCF, SQLServer , SSIS , SSAS , SSRS and HTML 5. Currently he is employed with a SharePoint Service Provider and is based out of India

The top five answerers in the MSDN forums

Last 30 days
	Rachit Sikroria	70
	Dave Patrick	68
	Hilary Cotter	59
	Magnus (MM8)	58
	PriyaranjanKS	48

Now, let's also take a closer look at these...

	Rachit Sikroria
	Already described above

	Dave Patrick
	Already described above

	Hilary Cotter
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since Mar 5, 2008 Contact

	Magnus (MM8)
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Website blog.magnusmontin... Member Since Mar 10, 2009

	PriyaranjanKS
	Already described above

This week, TechNet beats MSDN by 106 answers!

The most recent and active moderators in the TechNet forums

Moset recent moderations
	Richard Mueller
	Ty Glander
	ZigZag3143x
	Ed Crowley
	SumanthBM
	Carey Frisch
	Dan Guzman

Here's some more about these most helpful moderators...

	Richard Mueller
	I work at Hilltop Lab Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website rlmueller.net Member Since Mar 10, 2007 Biography I worked for an electric utility where I was responsible for IT services at 10 power plants and 3 office locations. I do consulting and work with a partner on an application that tracks school lunches.

	Ty Glander
	I work at Insight Global Member Since Dec 20, 2005 Contact

	ZigZag3143x
	I work at Microsoft Community Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website zigzag3143.com Member Since Apr 28, 2009 Biography “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ~Plato --------------------------------------------- Email zigzag3143@gmail.com

	Ed Crowley
	I work at Convergent Computing Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Website cco.com Member Since Aug 28, 2008 Biography BS EECS University of California, Berkeley '80 --MBA Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley '89 -- Over 30 years in computing and IT -- MVP Exchange since 1997

	SumanthBM
	I work at Microsoft Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since May 22, 2016

	Carey Frisch
	I work at Microsoft MVP since 2003 Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since May 7, 2006 Biography I enjoy assisting Windows users with technical advice and solutions in response to questions or issues in the realm of Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Microsoft Office, and software licensing (Microsoft Genuine Advantage).

Dan Guzman

Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website dbdelta.com Member Since Dec 7, 2008 Biography I've been using Microsoft SQL Server since version 4.21 was introduced on the Windows 3.1 Advanced Server platform and have over 30 years of experience in Database Administrator/Developer/Architect roles. I've been an active member of the SQL Server community for 20+ years and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2001.

The most recent moderators in the MSDN forums

Moset recent moderations
	DotNet Wang
	IoTGirl
	David Ebbo
	Kareninstructor
	SumanthBM
	Dan Guzman
	Ajay Kumar .N
	SathyanarrayananS

And as before, some more info on these mega-moderators...

	DotNet Wang
	Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since Jul 27, 2015

	IoTGirl
	I work at HCL America Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Website windowsondevices.com Member Since Dec 30, 2008 Biography I have over 15 years experience in Windows Based devices

	David Ebbo
	I work at Microsoft Website blog.davidebbo.com Member Since Aug 11, 2008 Contact Biography I work on the Azure Web Apps team.

Kareninstructor

Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since Oct 1, 2008 Contact   Biography Develop with VS2013/VS2015, C#. Moderator under VB.NET, C# and Windows Forms Data Controls and Databinding forums and moderator at vbforums entire site. Currently our company is developing in C#, Entity Framework, SQL-Server and Web-API. Stack over flow profile under Karen Payne. Site moderator for VB Forums.

	SumanthBM
	Already described above

	Dan Guzman
	Already described above

	Ajay Kumar .N
	I work at Microsoft Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since Feb 12, 2016

	SathyanarrayananS
	Website allaboutmssql.com Member Since Sep 21, 2012 Contact

The top five MVP answerers in the TechNet forums

Last 30 days
	Dave Patrick	119
	Rachit Sikroria	70
	Jason Sandys	62
	Hilary Cotter	59
	arnavsharma	41

Here's some more about these most valuable answerers...

	Dave Patrick
	Already described above

	Rachit Sikroria
	Already described above

	Jason Sandys
	Already described above

	Hilary Cotter
	Already described above

	arnavsharma
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Website arnavsharma.net Member Since Aug 6, 2012 Contact Biography Good and bad, peace and agony, pain and pleasure, all these originate within man and not outside him.

The top five MVP answerers in the MSDN forums

Last 30 days
	Rachit Sikroria	70
	Dave Patrick	68
	Hilary Cotter	59
	Magnus (MM8)	58
	Olaf Helper	32

And finally, some more info on these most valuable answerers...

	Rachit Sikroria
	Already described above

	Dave Patrick
	Already described above

	Hilary Cotter
	Already described above

	Magnus (MM8)
	Already described above

	Olaf Helper
	I work at reifencom GmbH Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website olafhelper.over-b... Member Since Aug 9, 2009 Contact   Biography DBA and Developer for Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence Designer. --------- DBA und Entwickler für Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence Designer.

This week, TechNet beats MSDN by 64 answers!

Congratulations to all our weekly winners, and thanks for reading!

Peter Laker (Azure MVP)