Are you a User Group Member, Leader, or Presenter? Does the TechNet Wiki come up in group discussions, Q&A or in presented resource materials? Calling all members of Microsoft User Groups worldwide - make an effort to promote the TechNet Wiki as a go to resource for technology solutions! Everyone...

Sandro had a pretty good idea... How would you like to start a TechNet Wiki contest? It could be around your technology (like PowerPivot, SharePoint, Visual C#, or Small Basic), or it could be about your language (like German or Japanese). What would your contest be? What are the requirements...

Hi everyone - I'm back, after a while! So many things happened to me during the past weeks - it's amazing how an active community can inspire you to share (and learn) more and more, let it be an online or an offline one. I was focusing to the offline communities during the last weeks - well, summer...

Contributions in all areas are welcome in the TechNet Wiki , There are many ways to contribute to the TechNet Wiki all contributions are valued and recognized, can be assured that your contribution will be tracked by Bing or another search engine and Some will be very useful for a person standing next...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday . Okay. So this topic isn't new. =^) But it's still something I have to chime in on. So, do me a favor. Leave a comment below with links to other Wiki articles and Blog posts that are also on this topic, and I'll add them to the See Also section at the bottom. Thank...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! The wiki day of the week with the most alliteration! So, want to help me update the TechNet Wiki Known Issues? First head to the TechNet Wiki Discussion forum . A wiki forum? Yeah, it's a forum for talking about TechNet Wiki. I mean, this is a wiki blog, so why...

The latest Wiki Life articles have been guiding you into some design principles on the Technet Wiki. I hope you have enjoyed last week's Wiki Life: Design Principles. Ana Paula de Almeida has put together a useful series of baseline design principles. In that perspective, also check the techiques used...

Hello Ninjas and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. In my last post here on the WikiNinjas Blog, I talked to you about the principle of invisibility . Today I present a principle again. But unlike the principle of Invisibility, this principle we already we use in our articles...

Writing Wiki articles is fun - right? How can it be even more fun? We have all these great templates and instructions for writing great Wiki articles on the Wiki site; however, whenever I need them, it usually takes too much time to locate and implement them. Wouldn't it be helpful to have common...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Do you know who/what has his/its third birthday on April 14? Let me ask you this question in another way: What do you think, how old is the TechNet Wiki? Nearly three years ago the TechNet Wiki was launched with the following announcement...

The Wiki life today March 20 to inform the whole community in Brazil that will have a Webcast about TechNet Wiki in Brazil between the hours of 20:00 to 21:00 pm. So I invite all Brazilians to Participate: Follow the link for the meeting. Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=J2QSHC&role...

Large parts of the world take it for granted to find all information in your mother-tongue or in English. But, what if ... you're an expert IT Pro or Dev person and there is no information available in your own language... Although lots of the job related stuff is documented, discussed in English...

Welcome to Wednesday Wiki Life . We're currently collecting new features, and the Community Council has one person assigned every month to collecting, communicating, and tracking new features and bug fixes. So all the features will be reviewed by the TechNet Wiki application team. NOTE : We're...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. What platform is the most influential one for an IT expert? Is it YouTube? Facebook? Or Twitter? In my opinion that's a matter of personal preference, but let me alter my question a little bit. What platform is the most influential one...

2/23 UPDATE: FINAL WINNER: PowerShell: Running Executables ========================= For today's Wiki Life, you're going to help us pick which article to feature on the home page of TechNet Wiki! We've done this in the past , and we're at it again this week! On the home page of TechNet...

Yes. Yes you do.

You can submit your feature requests for TechNet/MSDN profiles and social platform tools! To submit a request... Go here: Feature Requests for TechNet and MSDN Profiles and Social Platform Tools Create a new row at the bottom of the specific table on that page (corresponding to your social...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! There is bit of a debate around perspectives of how to find content in the World Wide Web. Some folks are all about Search. They're search-tastic. Other folks are looking for the TOC, like in a Help file. They are lost because they cannot navigate. Well, the...

Have you ever thought about your copyright on the articles you publish on Technet Wiki, or on other Wiki platforms or other code sharing platforms like Microsoft's Codeplex or open source platform Sourceforge? What's the consequence of using Technet Wiki for publishing code samples like powershell scripts...

When i started contributing in Wikipedia in 2006 there were not many articles with principles and policies. The Wikipedia evolves very much and today we find many guide to the best practices to contribute to the Wiki. One of the principles that are presented is the use of signatures in the articles...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Before I start: That is my first post in 2013 and with that I wish you all a happy new year. I hope you had a nice Christmas and a good start into the new year. But lets get back to topic: How do you learn new technologies? Do you invest...

So, this blog post was supposed to be on Wednesday, but somehow I thought it was last week, so don't be scared, it's not Wednesday it's just a late post from Wednesday! I blame it on the fact that I was awarded the MVP January 1 this year. So I wanted to see who would give us the most gifts this...

After everybody has gone for holidays ( except Pete - he was so kind to give me his keys) it is my part to hold up the Wiki Ninjas flag for today. Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. The year 2012 is nearly gone and 2013 is at the ready. So I like to summarize what has...

In our quest to create the perfect wiki tool, random entries pepper the ninja blogs, highlighting some of the successes and road blocks encountered along the way. As the holiday season approaches and the world wakes up to superior technology (Windows 8) so does the download rate of the TechNet...

I am very pleased to announce that the TechNet Wiki Widget for Windows 8 has just hit the 1,000 download mark ! As I write this, I am looking at 1,001 downloads , for the first two months it has been released. Considering that the Wiki Widget is specifically designed for use with TechNet Wiki...