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,...

When you're into Security, the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) is likely to be part of your toolset. Or at least: it should be. And it's free. You should bookmark this URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677002.aspx SCM is a so-called Solution accelerator. As explained...

In a few weeks Windows 8 is to be released. Windows Phone 8 is gaining momentum. So Microsoft is driving the development of Windows 8 apps to the maximum to build a nice collection of apps by october. Just a few weeks left. But... Master Ninja Ed confirmed that there is no app for the Wiki yet...

This thread in the TechNet Wiki Discussion forum: Table Formatting Lost After Edit ...led to this Wiki article by Richard Mueller : Wiki: Fix Color Issues in Wiki Articles ...which links to this script in the TechNet Gallery: Fix Color Issues in TechNet Wiki Articles Go...

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...

Most of you know the KISS-principle , although some of you rather link it to the Ninja like painted rock band. It usually stands for "keep it stupid simple", "keep it short and simple", "keep it simple sir", "keep it super simple", ..."keep it simple and straightforward" or "keep it simple and sincere...

This community win is an obvious one, but it's still a great example of the collaboration happening every day on TechNet Wiki! TechNet Guru Contributions - June 2013 First, you can scroll to the bottom and see that we have 4 pages of Comments . Revisions: 73 Comments: 55 The article...

Welcome again to the Thursday - Community Win series! So as you may know (and read) Horizon and Zoltàn did some e-book and other book stuff, I'm here to tell you.... There is more! So for all the different platforms from Microsoft all the different ways to educated youself through books...

Hello everyone welcome to Thursday - Community Win. As new Microsoft technologies hit the market, Technet Wiki is helping the community update the knowledge. The article Windows Server 2012 Early Experts - 70-417 - Resources for preparation helps with new features of Windows Server 2012 and...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Thursday - Community Win . What do you think is the second important thing a ninja should have in his repertoire beside his knowledge? That is a difficult question. There can be very different answers to this question depending on who you ask. For me it is the editor...

Hi everyone ! It’s Philippe talking today and I will spotlight something that I like to see for the community. It's some technicals content that are being migrated to the TechNet Wiki ! For an example I have that article about Active Directory Replication Over Firewalls in mind; ...

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...

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...

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...

TechNet Wiki is growing and improving! It's open for everyone, and that's awesome! But it has its risks as well. For example, being open for anyone means that unwanted content might appear - displaying advertisements, or links to harmful content. Today I would like to highlight the work of those...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Thursday - Community Win . Today most people are talking about the general availability of Windows 8 later this evening, but as some of you already know I'm a big Windows Azure fan and with that I have seen some really cool demos about Windows Azure and Apache Hadoop...

Here's a random post for today's Community Win! It's a win when three of our Wiki Ninja contributors get nominated for awards like this! Please vote here for our SharePoint Wiki Ninjas... http://harmon.ie/top-25-european-sharepoint-community-influencers Gokan Ozcifci (Belgium) Margriet Bruggeman...

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...

So you might wonder why is this a Community Win ? (Which are examples of the community coming together to be generally awesome on TechNet Wiki.) I'll get to that answer. But first... We added the Troubleshooting portal up on TNWiki last month. That's a good thing. Check that out here... Wiki...

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...

Hello and welcome to Community Win. Technet Wiki is the best place to gather the community together with awesome results. Let's see the wiki started by Travis Wright MSFT How to Participate in the System Center Community (en-US) The page was created in 5 jun, within 24 hours the page already...