All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners, see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Agustín Mántaras | Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages | Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!" Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!" Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)" |
| Johns-305 [boatseller] | BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA | Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. " Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!" Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved." |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3 | Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic." Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!" |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Wim Beck | Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service | Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!" PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. " |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Chervine | Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB | JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB." Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!" |
| Chilbeto | Publishing Multiple Azure Environments | TN: "Great " JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure." Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!" |
| saramgsilva | Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification | Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!" JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published on GitHub." |
| Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Mr X | Unattended installation of Visio 2013 | Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!" AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx. Overall decent article" |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Brian Nadjiwon | How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell | Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references." Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!" |
| Andy ONeill | Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip | Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise." Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!" |
| saramgsilva | How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview | Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!" Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person." |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Geetanjali Arora | SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve | TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve" Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!" GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work." Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!" Jinchun Chen: "Great." |
| Steven Andrews | Building a list specific search with JavaScript | TN: "Great tip for mid-dev" Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!" GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!" Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often" Jinchun Chen: "Nice work" |
| Dan Christian | No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list | Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!" GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article." Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well." Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line | RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center." Ed Price: "Great use of images!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 - GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote | Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!" RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: International Resources | Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Visakh16 | Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions | MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage" RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution" Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using." Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!" |
| Jan D'Hondt | Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers | Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!" MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows" RB: "interesting work-around." |
| Anushka Weerakkodyge | Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode | RB: "nice walkthrough" Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!" MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before. Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work." |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Shanky | In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild | AM: "Well covered." Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!" |
| Ronen Ariely | Representing list of values using a single value | Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!" AM: " Interesting options and walk through." |
| Visakh16 | Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS | AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS." Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!" |
| System Center Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Alan do Nascimento Carlos | ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager in 06 Steps | Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!" GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Visakh16 | Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS | Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles." GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!" Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison " Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!" JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there." |
| Ronen Ariely | INSTEAD OF Triggers | Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!" JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here." Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work." GO: "Thanks" |
| Praveen Rayan D'sa | Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred. | GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!" Jinchun Chen: "" Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not." Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!" JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| .paul. | Image balloonTips | Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles." Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!" |
| .paul. | Image Arrow Pointers | Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person." Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!" |
| Paul Ishak | Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#) | Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing." Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links." |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Chervine | Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server | Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!" Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data" Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic" DB: "Interesting" |
| Magnus (MM8) | C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types | Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility" DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection" Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions." Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem" |
| saramgsilva | File exporter for IEnumerable of T | Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!" Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values" Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics" |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Durval Ramos | Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit | Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done." Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!" GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks" |
| Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| saramgsilva | How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App | JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more." Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!" |
| Carmelo La Monica | The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8. | JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this." Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion." |
| saramgsilva | Export To CSV for Windows Store apps | JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done." Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!" |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Andy ONeill | WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1 | Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!" KJ: "awesome" |
| saramgsilva | How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML | Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!" GO: "She did it again. Great article." |
| Shweta Lodha | PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0] | KJ: "handy" Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!" GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article." |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014 |
| Richard Mueller | Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes | Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information." GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard." JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution." Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged" |
| Darshana Jayathilake | Some useful features with Windows Group policies | JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" " GO: "I like the article; so great written" Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability." Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !" |
| Mr X | How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy | Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new." JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies." GO: "Merci, Mr X" Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment." |
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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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