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3) Every month, we will highlight your contributions, and select a "Guru of the Month" in each technology.
If you win, we will sing your praises in blogs and forums, similar to the
weekly contributor awards. Once "on our radar" and making your mark, you will probably be
interviewed for your greatness, and maybe eventually even invited into other inner TechNet/MSDN circles!
Winning this award in your favoured technology will help us learn the active members in each community.
Below are June's mighty winners and contenders!
BizTalk Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Guru Award]() | Microsoft Azure Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Dileepa Kariyawasam | Use Azure Active Directory to Custom Brand Your Office 365 Sign In Page – Step
by Step | Ed Price: “This is an incredibly valuable scenario that’s executed well! It could be improved with a TOC and References and See Also sections at the end.” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | Chervine | Schedule PowerShell Scripts to Manage Azure Virtual Machines | AS: “The article represents good overview of the Azure Automation service. However it is suggested best practice to use service principals in Azure AD instead of a regular users. And use certificate to authenticate the service
principal.” Ed Price: “Wow! Fantastic solution, great write-up, good use of headers/sections, formatting, a diagram, images, code formatting, and a solid References section! As AS mentions, this could be improved with the Azure AD perspective. Great article!” |
![Bronze Award Winner]() | Michel Jatobá | Configuring Client VPN PowerShell on Microsoft Azure (ARM) | Ed Price: “Good job on this. The Introduction, “Configuring VPN Certificate” section, and use of images… really stand out. This article is similar to an Azure doc one (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/vpn-gateway-howto-point-to-site-rm-ps/),
but it’s done a little differently, and the images help. It could be improved with See Also and References sections at the end, as well, as little more refinement on the code formatting (which admittedly, should be easier to do). Good job on this. “ |
![Guru Award]() | Miscellaneous Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | SYED SHANU | MVC Dashboard with Chart using AngularJS and WEB API | Philippe Levesque: “Excellent ! The use of animated gif is really good” Richard Mueller: “Lots of well thought out code. Grammar needs work.” Ed Price: “Powerful article with a great use of code! The images won’t show for me. I love the Download section at the end for the MSDN Gallery item!” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | Santhakumar Munuswamy | Disqus Integration in Asp.Net MVC | Ed Price: “Beautiful job with the structure, images, and code. Good to have the reference link. ” Richard Mueller: “Good images. We need more references.” Philippe Levesque: “” |
![Bronze Award Winner]() | Dileepa Kariyawasam | Office 365 Journaling Workaround – How to Guide | Richard Mueller: “Interesting solution. I like that this is not first person or personalized. Could there be references?” Philippe Levesque: “” Ed Price: “Also a good topic. This could be improved with section headers, and with See Also and References sections. Great use of images!” |
![Guru Award]() | SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Guru Award]() | Small Basic Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Mouse | Ed Price: “I love this series! Nonki takes us end to end on using the mouse in Small Basic. I love the definition! Very strong See Also section.” Michiel Van Hoorn: “Nonki again delivered a great article on a SB function (MOUSE). Very useful if you want to interact with mouse” Carmelo La Monica: “I don’t know small basic, but this is good point to learn. Congrats.” Alan Carlos: “” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | Deva | Small Basic Videos | Carmelo La Monica: “Very good videos, good fo to learn Small Basic. Congrats for all videos.” Alan Carlos: “Good guidance, very helpful!” Michiel Van Hoorn: “Nice overview of available videos” Ed Price: “Great to have this list on the Wiki! Thanks!” |
![Guru Award]() | SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Thomas LeBlanc | Analysis Services: Solving Hierarchy Errors of Uniqueness | PT: “Thanks for the article, Thomas. You’ve explained the use case and steps for creating a hierarchy very plainly. This is a good piece.” Ed Price: “Great scenario and use of images! It could be improved with headers and a TOC, and with References and See Also sections at the end. This is a powerful topic.” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | Sudeep Raj | Integration Services: Using DB Mail to send HTML format mail | PT: “Thank you for explaining this technique; simple and effective.” Ed Price: “Fantastic topic from Sudeep, with solid colouring on the code formatting! Could be improved with References and See Also sections.” |
![Bronze Award Winner]() | Jens Vestergaard | Extracting SSAS MD Database(s) XMLA w/ PowerShell | PT: “This is a useful script that I’ll probably use in the future. This is a good start but the post could use a little more structure to be complete; an introduction, objective statement and conclusion. Thanks for your contribution.” Ed Price: “Good PowerShell solution. Could benefit from more of a breakdown of the code. “ |
![Guru Award]() | SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Hezequias Vasconcelos | SQL 2016 – Install SSMS Management Studio | UR: “Why is an installation instruction of an “old” version of SSMS in June a WIKI? The latest version isn’t a preview anymore. An installation step by step isn’t worth a WIKI entry. I would have seen more details about the
differences between SSMS 2016 previous version. What are the differences? What will work better? What (and there is a lot!) is not working good?” Ronen Ariely: “A great subject for article. Screenshot images of each step helps simplify the instructions, makes the article more useful for new users. There is some room for improvement. See article comment section.” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | FLauffer | SQL Server Troubleshooting: How to remove a bad execution plan from plan cache | Ronen Ariely: “A nice article of a simple case study and a solution. It’s very short and has potential to be even better with a bit more expansion” UR: “I am missing a more detailed explanation WHY a plan can go wrong. Basically it is more “story around DBCC FREEPROCCACHE”.” |
![Guru Award]() | System Center Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Guru Award]() | Universal Windows Apps Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Guru Award]() | Visual Basic Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | .paul. | VB.Net – QR Code Creator | Ed Price: “I love the QR Code creator! Incredibly valuable. Great job with the code, formatting, and download!” MR: “Nice and easy! Would love to know how to generate a QR code from scratch!” Richard Mueller: “Very useful. Simple but effective code.” |
![Guru Award]() | Visual C# Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Emiliano Musso | Entity Framework Introduction using C#, part II – Code-First and Migrations | Ronen Ariely: “Excellent article! I loved the idea of writing series of articles. Moreover, the author translated the articles into another language. Great use of the capabilities of the TechNet WIKI.” Ed Price: “Wow. This is an amazing article! It has it all… a great topic, fantastic formatting with headers, great code formatting, good descriptions, screenshots, references, a link to the MSDN code gallery to download the code, and an Italian
version! This is a high-quality article! Other writers (including myself) should look at this one for ideas of how to achieve quality!” Jaliya Udagedara: “Now this is a fantastic article. Well explained, filled with images, code snippets and the full sample code is available in MSDN Code gallery. Awesome job!” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | Sabah Shariq | Searching data in Elasticsearch using C# | Ronen Ariely: “Great article. I really enjoyed to read it. posting the code ready for download is very useful.” Ed Price: “Great job breaking down the sections and explaining the code! Could be improved with References and See Also sections. ” Jaliya Udagedara: “Haven’t used Elastic search before and this article contains instructions for everything that you need to get started. Nice!” |
![Bronze Award Winner]() | Sibeesh Venu | Working with API help page controller action description in Web API | Ed Price: “A good topic with solid code, but it would be good to breakdown the code more and explain it in chunks.” Jaliya Udagedara: “If you are having trouble showing descriptions in Web API help pages, this article should help you out.” |
![Guru Award]() | Wiki and Portals Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Carsten Siemens | Translation Wiki: Getting started | Ronen Ariely: “This article gave me new information regarding the Translation Wiki Community. This information should be published in any communication channel we have. This is a “must to know” in my opinion.” Ed Price: “I love it. This is a great process. Thanks to Carsten for building it and Peter for compiling, editing, and publishing!” Richard Mueller: “Very informative. The images are good, but I had to zoom them. This must have required some research. Perhaps there should be a link to the blog site.” |
![Silver Award Winner]() | Peter Geelen | Wiki: Before you post your article – Quick check list | Richard Mueller: “Great use of Wiki guidelines. An excellent guide for all Wiki authors with great advice. I like the emphasis on researching the topic, collecting links for references, and preparing offline.” Ronen Ariely: “Very useful, very important, and most of all: I love the way it’s organized as a check list” Ed Price: “This is a fantastic check list to go through before you get started! It will up the quality if we use this!” |
![Bronze Award Winner]() | Peter Geelen | Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) Portal | Ronen Ariely: “The TechNet WIKI based on portals as an index to navigate the website. This is nice list of articles that act as portal to the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager ” Ed Price: “Great portal. Good job getting all these links compiled for us!” Richard Mueller: “Great links. Maybe a few words would be useful.” |
![Guru Award]() | Windows PowerShell Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Guru Award]() | Windows Server Technical Guru – June 2016 |
![Gold Award Winner]() | Ryen Tang | Nano Server: Deploying MySQL Database Server | Mark Parris: “Nice compact article on the new technology that is Nano Server.” Philippe Levesque: “Excellent article, easy to follow step and well-written!” JM: “This is a great article on deploying MySQL on Nano, thanks for your contribution!” Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines, with code, images, and references. Good to have detailed steps.” |
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