The September Guru results are posted!
Below are the highlights, just the medal winners. Please see the blog above for more entrants and comments, which had to be trimmed to fit into this 60,000 character forum limit.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Johns-305 [boatseller] | BizTalk: Working with Preserve Interchange EDI Xml – Part 1 | Mandi Ohlinger: "This is a great How To article with the steps and terms clearly defined. If you want to preserve interchanges, you need to read this." TGN: "EDI is a big part of BizTalk, great wrap up, both articles." |
| Verma.Sumit | BizTalk Server - Default Pipelines | TGN: "Very nice article explaining the default pipelines "in-depth"." Mandi Ohlinger: "Great detailed information on the XML pipelines. Very informative read. " |
| Rahul_Madaan | BizTalk Server - Debatching multiple message types using Envelope Schema | Mandi Ohlinger: "A common task explained simply. Very effective." TGN: "Very nice tutorial. I would love to see some better images though, and a little better elaboration on the different steps, but overall a very good article." |
| Exchange Server Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Rafael Mantovani | Exchange: Unable to Verify Information About Users Availability | Ed Price: "This is a good article with some good images. This article was originally in English, but because it was posted on the Portuguese Wiki, it got translated into Portuguese! The English version should be pasted into a new article on the English Wiki. Here is the English version: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/26759.nao-e-possivel-verificar-informacoes-de-disponibilidade-dos-usuarios/revision/7.aspx " |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Eihab Isaac (MVP) | FIM 2010 R2: Coexistence Exchange Provisioning Scenario using PowerShell Management Agent | AM: "Eihab, thank you for continuing to make excellent contributions to the community. This is a useful reference for anyone needing to meet similar requirements without the service and portal." PG: "Nice article. Well designed!" Søren Granfeldt: "Great overview on real world challenges with managing diffrent Exchange versions using FIM. Second part wil really complement this article." |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Chervine | Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning | JH: "Love it! One of my favorite articles on the wiki from last month." Ed Price: "Fantastic article! Incredibly well written with good details and helpful images. This Machine Learning topic is very important and timely right now!" |
| Alex Mang | What Are Scoring Profiles In Azure Search? | JH: "Alex has done a tremendous job with his library. Love it that he shares update on the library on the wiki." Ed Price: "Wow, I love all the explanations and detail. And this topic is incredibly valuable. Amazing job!" |
| saramgsilva | Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta : Connecting a Menu App to Azure Mobile Service | JH: "Great article with a lot of pictures. A good one!" Ed Price: "Great topic, Sara! Very thorough and well written!" |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Brian Nadjiwon | How to Create and Use Enums in Powershell | Ed Price: "Wow, what a detailed article! Great depth and use of images! I think it's time for a PowerShell category!" TGN: "I LOVE ENUMS! Great explaining and a great article. Well done, Brian!" PG: "Nice, practical solution, clear explanation." |
| Adnan Umer | Understanding GPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 | Ed Price: " A fantastic Visual Studio article with great details and vivid images!" TGN: "Very valuable and a great toturiol on how to use the "GPU Usage tool"" |
| Britt Adams | Unexplained High CPU Usage on Intel E5 Processors | Ed Price: "Very thorough explanation! Great job! " TGN: "Wow, computer science is fun. Nice wrap-up and how-to. I loved it!" |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Vivek Jagga | SharePoint, Office 365 or a Hybrid Deployment? | Jinchun Chen: "Excellent!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice, I can see this one coming in real handy in comparison studies" |
| Inderjeet Singh | Common issue when using SharePoint 2013 Multi Tenant environment (Apps and User Profile Synchronization) | Jinchun Chen: "Nice article." Margriet Bruggeman: "Useful and not too much is written about this topics, which adds some bonus points" |
| Dan Christian | Tips and Tricks to Resolve Poject 2010 Server Migration Issues | Margriet Bruggeman: "Extensive KB-type article in case you need it" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Philip Munts | Small Basic: For Windows 8.1 Tablet | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great article for those (1) want to make apps for tablet form factors and (2) are looking to package a SB app into a package." Ed Price: "I love it! What an important topic!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Emoji | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Another entry from Nonki which opens up new possibilities. This time Emoji and the font editing." Ed Price: "This is incredibly interesting!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Dictionary | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Simple entry on a powerful feature" Ed Price: "Great overview of the Dictionary Object! Good job integrating the Known Issues and the See Also section!" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| visakh16 | Finding SSIS Packages having References to a Table or Column | RB: "Interesting subject, with a lot of practical usage" Jinchun Chen: "Really helpful." PT: "Good article that addresses a specific problem and offers a solution. Thank you" |
| Ch. Rajen Singh | SSIS: Export Multiple File With Fixed Size | PT: "This is a good article, well-written and solves a real problem." Jinchun Chen: "Nice article." RB: "Interesting workaround for the fixed file size problem" |
| Ed Price - MSFT | Power BI Community Council | PT: "Great information about the purpose and composition of the Power BI Community Council to inform and raise awareness." |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Shanky | An Examination of Logging in Truncate Table Statement and Its Comparison With Delete Statement | Jinchun Chen: "Excellent" Ed Price: "Wow, Shanky! What an amazingly thorough and detailed article!" |
| Tulio Rosa | SQL Server Load Balancing | AM: "Also very good!" Ed Price: "Fantastic topic, good job on the diagram, and great use of TechNet Gallery! Plus a Portuguese translation!" |
| Ashwin Menon | Get Notified when a database status changes | AM: "This is well explained" Ed Price: "Very thorough article! Good References section!" |
| System Center Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Mr X | How to upload new Drivers in SCCM 2012 R2 | Peter Laker: "Very nice, thanks Mr X" Ed Price: "Wow. Great use of images to walk the reader through the process! Could benefit from a See Also and Additional Resources type of sections. Very thorough!" |
| Mr X | How to create a new Boot Image using SCCM 2012 R2 | Peter Laker: "Another good article!" Ed Price: "Short and sweet How To article! It's great to cover all these scenarios. Excellent addition to our System Center library of content!" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| visakh16 | Full Outer Join - The Most Generic Join Statement | JS: "A good summary, though a bit generic and already available mutliple times on the internet. The sample (with data) could be a bit more crisp though." Ed Price: "I love the explanations at the top in the Context and Reasoning sections! And then the solution has a fantastic mix between explanations, illustrations, and the code snippets. And the links at the bottom help JOIN together the Join resources! Great job!" |
| Praveen Rayan D'sa | Dynamic pivot with column alias | Jinchun Chen: "Good." Ed Price: "Fantastic solution. Good job getting the references in there at the bottom!" |
| Saeid Hasani | Calling Stored Procedures Using Transact-SQL | JS: "A good write up for getting the feet wet with procedure, though missing some depth." Ed Price: "Wow! I love your break out each section, explain it, and give the code snippet. It makes it very easy to read, understand, and get to the right section! To JS's point, it's probably better for beginners than advanced T-SQL gurus, but this content is still very valuable. Great example of the community giving advice and helping out with the content. Incredible article!" |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| João Sousa | ASP.NET WebAPI - Basic Redis | Peter Laker: "Nice WebAPI basics Joao!" JM: "This is best" |
| Jaliya Udagedara | Publishing and Subscribing using NServiceBus | JM: "Close second IMO" Peter Laker: "Great intro to NServiceBus! Thanks Jaliya!" |
| Adnan Umer | Calculating Percentage Similarity of two Strings in C# | JM: "I like this!" Peter Laker: "Awesome snippet and explanation, thanks Adnan!" |
| Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Adnan Umer | Introducing ObjectGraphLibrary to visualize Stack and Heap | JH: "Good article about stack and heap visualization." TGN: "Hardcore stuff, but very valuable. Great article buddy!" |
| saramgsilva | Microsoft’s Windows App Studio Beta: Creating a BackOffice App for Menu App | JH: "Another great article by Sara! A lot of code snippets, pictures and explanations." TGN: "Great tutorial, well explained. And a bunch of screenshots. I loved it!" |
| Muiz Khan | Using Speech Recognition without Internet | TGN: "Nice one. I love articles that explain something in an easy understanding way. Great work Muiz!" JH: "Good explanation of offline capabilities of speech recognition." |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Andy ONeill | WPF: CollectionView Tips | KJ: "wow cery thorough!" Peter Laker: "Blindingly good article Andy!" |
| Magnus (MM8) | WPF/MVVM: Binding the DatePickerTextBox in WPF | KJ: "useful tip - could see needing to do this and searching for this article and finding it" Peter Laker: "Excellent work as always Magnus!" |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Durval Ramos | Visio Portal | Peter Laker: "Awe inspiring portal from a Wiki legend!" Ed Price: "Great introduction, a lot of links, divided by sections, and it even has References and Return to Top links! Amazing article!" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - September 2014 |
| Mr X | Getting Started with KMS (Key Management Service) | JM: "Another excellent article, great work." Philippe Levesque: "Really good documentation." Richard Mueller: "Good topic with good images to explain." Mark Parris: "Good insights, would be good to higlight also the improvements in 2012 and 2012 R2." |
| Kelly Bush | Authentication Policies and Authentication Silos – Restricting Domain Controller Access | Mark Parris: "Nice article, providing further insight into some of 2012 R2's capabilities." Richard Mueller: "Great article with lots of detail. Could use TOC and See Also section." JM: "An excellent article, thanks for the contribution!" Philippe Levesque: "Good article, it explain some security that we don't see much." |
| FZB | Windows Server: DNS Service - Negative Caching | Mark Parris: "useful tidbit, i have often seen shortttl zones for such records." JM: "A good article, however it needs a rewrite for clarity." Philippe Levesque: "Andy information to have, thanks for sharing !" Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation." |
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