I’ve been known to participate in Microsoft forums for years now. Ed Price was the first one who suggested to me that writing Wikis can be rewarding too, so I gave it a shot. At first, editing and writing Wikis felt totally alien to me, but after trying it, reading more Wikis and following TechNet...

Welcome to the Tuesday article spotlight ! Recently I spotted an interesting Wiki article. I've never seen a similar kind of article before on Technet Wiki. Basically it's the transcript of a Channel 9 video by Joe Sack, "Presentation: Introducing SQL Server 2012 Table Partitioning Improvements...

Welcome to our Tuesday article spotlight ! Have you ever had an Issue with a product from Microsoft? And you struggle to locate information, when you do you forget to write it down and when the problem occur again you have to look up the solution again. Well if you follow the idea of this article...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! I usually write up a lot about BizTalk Server. Through my personal blog , magazines, and the TechNet wiki (see BizTalk Server resources on TechNet Wiki ). However I am not the only one. Others in the BizTalk community and with Microsoft have contributed...

Welcome to our Tuesday article spotlight ! Have you ever wanted to create quick and basic tables in TechNet Wiki? Check out this article here from Trace Young : Wiki: Create Quick and Basic Tables Using the Wiki HTML Editor This will create a simple table with a specific table width , specific...

Hello and welcome everybody to the Tuesday TNWiki Article Spotlight . Today I want to cover one of my favorite topics: SQL Azure. Did you ever had the feeling that you are looking around for useful information on a specific issue and the process is the same as the following? You start with asking...

It's Tuesday , so it's time to put another Wiki article in the spotlight! Today I'm going to feature the SQL Server Samples Readme Wiki article. The reason of selecting this one is simple. We are all learning here, continuously. We ask questions and get answers on the Forums, or we browse a number...

So as my first blog posts I would love to choose a Wiki Article with a topic that I find exciting, incredible and with a feeling of "cant wait to get a hold of it". In other words, the featured article this week is Micorsoft Surface . Not only is the product appealing to me, this is one of the articles...

Welcome to our Tuesday article spotlight ! So I'm not really sure why we haven't featured this sooner, but you know, better now than never! Check out the ever-evolving version here: Wiki: Getting Started To get started with the Wiki, you can view content or you can contribute by adding information...

The featured article today is none other than the Client Hyper-V Survival Guide. With all the excitement surrounding the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, one of the most-sought after features is the addition of Hyper-V and this article was created just in time for the latest pre-release version...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! One of the technologies that almost any System Administrator or Help Desk Technician has to deal with at some point is Active Directory. Because of the nature of the technology, managing each individual object in a domain can be time-consuming. Having...

For this week's TNWiki Article, I've made a selection of the most exquisite Wiki content for the Enterprise Security specialists amongst you. Not a Security specialist? Keep on reading, enough intellectual food to get kick-started with it. This week the spotlight is on PKI a.k.a. Public Key Infrastructure...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! I'm going to do something new. I'm going to feature an article that was created today. That's right, today. But here's the kicker. It's more like 19 articles. Yeah, all today and all by one person... Horizon Net : Sometimes...

Welcome to the Tuesday article spotlight . Elevation of Privilege (abbreviated "EoP") is a card game developed by Adam Shostack with assistance from many patient Microsoft developers, and it is designed to provide a fun and educational introduction to the concepts and practice of Threat Modeling....

I'm going to keep this Tuesday article spotlight short and simple. Check out the IPv6 Survival Guide here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/ipv6-survival-guide.aspx Joe Davies created a great Wiki page here. It has 35 revisions from 5 people: Joe Davies ...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! I have been contributing a couple of wiki articles last couple of months. This has inspired other BizTalk community members too to write articles for TechNet Wiki. This month January 2012 the number of BizTalk related wiki articles has grown from 40+ to...

Authoring on TechNet Wiki can be fun because you can write about anything Microsoft related, including Microsoft Forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/whether-or-not-you-should-self-propose-an-answer-in-an-msdn-or-technet-forum.aspx I created this list of pros and cons...

Need a confession to make... Not every WikiNinja is as ferocious as Ninja Ed. (Wish I would...) And some of them have pets. Yes, pets. (Which Ed will never admit.) Please meet my favorite companion: Kerberos. Fun is, the puppy is quite popular on TNWiki. Have a quick look at TNWiki or search...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! Every once in a while, you're surfing through the awesomeness that is TechNet Wiki, and then all of a sudden, your jaw drops. You're stunned at what you're looking at. (For example, Tony's PowerShell Survival Guide.) Well that happened to me today...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight . I'm featuring my own article... How to Become an MVP or MCC You're own article? Really? Yes, really. (And now I'm talking/writing to myself.) But I'm passionate about it, and it's been featured on the front page of TechNet and has received...

So close the holidays, Christmas and New Year's eve... End of year is the ultimate time for contemplation. It makes a Ninja think. And think... And think... And then the Wiki Ninja realises he got stuck with a Writer's block. Code block? Wiki: How to Insert Formatted Code on TechNet Wiki...

IT Pros love acronyms and jargon because of the efficiency they bring to comms (communications). Perftune is the jargon for performance tuning, which is also sometimes called …because the brutally honest and technically correct answer to the question is “it depends.” Your specific hardware, network and...

Already for some years the Identity Manager product had a very active and supporting community in the Identity Lifecycle Manager forum . With the launch of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (ILM 2 in earlier days) a complementary FIM 2010 forum was launched. This boosted the community impact significantly...

Hello community, Yuri Diogenes here and this week’s spotlight article is Reducing the operational risk when defending the Open Network with Microsoft PKI , originally written by threatmodel and updated by Kurt L Hudson . There are three reasons why I choose this article to be on the spotlight this week...

There are a number of different types of articles you’ll find on the TechNet wiki. Some examples include: Survival guides – Organized collections of links to content that will help you get done what you need to do Troubleshooting posts – Typically “one-off” posts on how to troubleshoot a particular error...