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 ! 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...

Hello and welcome to this week's TNWiki Article Spotlight ! I organize the Hungarian User Group of Microsoft SQL Server, and on every meetup event, it is told to the audience of the presentations that " you MUST always have backups ". Why? Because in case of a disaster event, after recovering the...

Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday. Have you ever searched the wiki for articles to a specific technology? Do you use the search bar? Do you scroll through the newest articles? Have I missed another option? Of course, I missed one, which is my personal favorite...

Welcome to our Tuesday Wiki Article Spotlight! So this is a bit unusual. It's a public Wiki article about moderation guidelines for our forums: Forum Moderation Guide: Managing Posts and Threads: Marking Answers Anthony Mann and I wrote that article (based on existing content). It's part of...

Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday. Before I start todays post I like to come back to my last blog post on user pages for a minute. It was amazing for me to see the growing number of new user pages, especially from people who where something like an idol for me since...

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...

Hi there, More and more on my “Ninja Era” I’m talking about “non-SharePoint” subjects. So why change? Do you Ninjas know the 8 benefits of reading a book? If not; here is the list: Enhanced Smarts Reading reduces stress Greater tranquility Improved analytical...

A fresh Wiki Ninja joining... A new team member... A discussion amongst experts.. Giving a course.... Learning new stuff... Trying to explain a technical configuration... What's the first thing to do, whatever language? Creating common ground, a language baseline. The Technet Wiki is no exception...

Welcome to a new year at TechNet Wiki. While most of us nurse a sore head or some still party through to a new dawn, or even the next night, work continued on TechNet Wiki. As this article goes to post, the " New Pages " page does not show any new articles of 2013, but as I explore the " Updated...

Today's featured article is BizTalk + WF/WCF, Better Together from Trace Young . Summary All versions of BizTalk Server use a publish/subscribe messaging engine architecture. In a publish/subscribe architecture, all messages that flow through BizTalk Server are first published to the MessageBox...

We're continuing the Tuesday article spotlights with another May TechNet Guru winner! Naomi N is our T-SQL TechNet Guru for May! See more about the Technology Guru TechNet Wiki for May contest. About Naomi : I am an IT professional with more than 15 years of experience in variety of programming...

It's time to congratulate another June TechNet Guru winner! Yogish Bhat is our Analysis Services TechNet Guru for June! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for June 2013 . Here is Yogish's winning article: Aggregations in SSAS Here are all the June SSAS winners: ...

This week I would like to highlight a new, small, but very useful article by Dan Bernhardt [MSFT]1 , which explains and links for information on moulding information from the TechNet Library into whatever form you need it to be. Create Your Own Custom TechNet Guide This little article shows...

Wiki pages can be divided in categories. I’ve blogged about several of those categories in the post, such as: The Link List Wiki, mentioned in blog post http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2012/06/17/the-big-bang-metaphor.aspx The Estimation Wiki, discussed in blog post http...

If you’re wondering about the title of this blog post, it’s a paraphrase of a Dutch proverb. The proverb just says that it’s often easier to ask questions than to answer them, an experience we all have at points in our life. While we’re on the subject of proverbs, currently my...

This week’s spotlight is the Windows PKI Documentation and Reference Library . What makes this article worthy of the spotlight is not that it receives a massive number of pageviews, edits, or revisions, but that it represents a shift in action and support by the product group that started the Windows...

SharePoint Server is a trendy platform for the moment.Everybody wants to use it and wants to know what SharePoint in fact can do. Each of us, will receive or already received the question about : “How can I use SharePoint?” or “What’s SharePoint?” What can be the best...

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...

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...

The legend of the Perpetuum Mobile says that it’s possible to build a mechanism that causes everlasting movement. If you’re wondering how that would look, well, take a look at this picture taken from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Boyle'sSelfFlowingFlask.png/250px...

Ever wanted to test drive your Wiki article, checking how it really looks before you publish? Allow me to have the spotlight shine just across the Wiki article boundaries... As there are a few ways to achieve this. For the first hint, I would like to refer to an article I published 2 weeks ago...

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...

Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday. How many of you do both answering question on the TechNet forums and writing wiki articles? Are these two are separate? I have talked about it in the past with Margriet Bruggeman as a good example how a community works and wins...

A vocabulary or even better a glossary of all the common BizTalk terms alphabetically listed can be very useful if you like to look up its definition. Typically you will find a glossary at the end of a book, however it can also be used to list terms in a certain field of study or with a certain technology...