Hello everybody, I'm Fernando and this is Thursday - Community Wins. Today featuring System Center 2012 Operations Manager Survival Guide created by Goose - MSFT (nice Walking Dead avatar!) with over more 5,000 page views. The guide has over 21 edits, The guide is full with wiki...

Welcome to Community Win Thursday , where we discuss an amazing achievement of intense collaboration in the TechNet Wiki community! Today this is like a journal. We're going to be investigating the mysterious "dsforum2wiki" effort, what it means, where it came from, and how it got to be so successful...

Hello and welcome to our Thursday - Community Win . Tord and Philippe has shown you in the last community wins that the wiki is hot.Today I want to talk about an article which is representative for this growth. It is about a topic (I have to admit) I'm not familiar with, but which shows the power...

Hi everyone! For my second post I am following Tord’s idea ( Community Win: TechNet Wiki growing bigger and wider ) and I did some statistics for the TNWiki! I was curious to see how the TNWiki was...

With the impending release of Server 2012 and Windows 8, many IT enthusiasts around the world are looking to test out the previews of each and see what they are capable of. Sometimes this just entails installing the OS and tinkering with it, but when they begin installing the more advanced features,...

Welcome again to the Community Win series of the Technet WikiNinjas Blog! As many may be aware of, getting bigger is not good in all circumstances. However, when it comes to available content online, being loaded and fat is good. There are currently topics from programming in .Net , SharePoint , BizTalk...

Welcome again to the Community Win series of the Technet WikiNinjas Blog! Without collaboration of the members, a community can be doomed. And sharing information is essential for effective collaboration in the life of every community. However this exchange of information needs a platform, especially...

This article Analysis Services Event ID and Event Descriptions is a great example of community working together to create and update an article. This article has been revised by several different community members and even translated into Brazilian Portugese . There are also plenty of comments about...

Hello and welcome to the Thursday - Community Win . Because this is my first post on the WikiNinjas blog let me quickly introduce myself. My name is Jan and I'm a Microsoft Student Partner from Germany. Question: What has 7 helpful votes, 32 replies, and 4585 views? Mh, wait! Are you really talking...

Stephen Banks , SBS MVP, created External Backup Drives Compatibility List , a catalog of which backup drives are compatible with different versions of Small Business Server. Within a few minutes, other had extended the article and over 1.5 years there have been over 50 revisions and thousands of page...

The Certificate Revocation and Status checking document was written a long time ago. It was a very good document in its day and was quite popular. The problem is that the topic was so old that no one was keeping track of it any longer. This problem was brought to my attention by field engineers who found...

The wiki was just beginning when I joined Microsoft back in December of 2009. When I first heard about the wiki, when of my first thoughts was “in all the years that I ran www.isaserver.org no one ever mentioned that we should have a wiki. Indeed, I never thought about a wiki for site – and...

Welcome to Community Win Thursday ! Question What has 59 revisions, 16 comments, and contributions that look like this (these aren't all of them, mind you)... Thu, Feb 23 2012 3:36 PM by: Mohamed Ibrahim MSFT Thu, Feb 23 2012 1:40 PM by: Jonathan Gao ...

With all of the buzz in the air about Windows 8 and the new features available, I'd like to point out of one of the new features that hasn't gotten much attention. The PowerShell v3 Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) Add-Ons menu now has a direct link to the TechNet Wiki page for Windows PowerShell...

Welcome to Community Win Thursday ! Rick Byham wrote this article in January 2011. Here's Rick: Check out the Comments on Rick's article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2102.how-to-troubleshoot-connecting-to-the-sql-server-database-engine.aspx#comments That...

Here, translate this article into your own language: Translate this page Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian...

I originally wrote this article ( Feature Requests for TechNet and MSDN Profiles ), figuring I'd come back to it. Rich Prescott left the comment: Rich Prescott , 19 Sep 2011 4:06 PM "Great idea Ed. I think I submitted more than enough feature requests to get you guys started." You can...

Hello Community, first of all HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope that 2012 is full of success for all of you. There are many developers that already realized that TechNet Wiki is not a platform exclusively for IT PROs and that their articles are very welcome ( we need them…keep them coming! ). There are many developers...

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a discussion forum for every piece of technical content on the Microsoft properties? There have been several attempts, including the TechNet “Community Content Control” launched back in 2006 .*** TechNet Wiki users are trying some interesting experiments with this idea...

End the tyranny of arbitrary sort-order! Now! Technical content providers have a constant problem:what is the best way to present a list of stuff? For example: Troubleshooters might appreciate the order in “fastest –solution-first, slowest-solution last.” Shoppers might appreciated “least-expensive to...

With only one article created, Aaron Meyers is a Wiki Ninja champion! All it takes is one article, and then who wins? It started with Aaron creating the article and making sure a link from the Download page went to the article here: Analytics for Twitter: Known Issues Then Aaron added...

In the Tom Petty hit “ Free Fallin’ ” there is a lyric that has been on my mind relating to the TechNet Wiki and community (little “c”). “,,, and the good girls are home with broken hearts …” Leaving aside pop-pysch analysis of the memes in...

Stop by Wiki Ninjas every Thursday for #WINNING! The TechNet Wiki is fortunate to have an active Community Council with several important responsibilities: Represents the Wiki community members to the community as a whole and to Microsoft. Arbitrates disagreements between Wiki members over...