The other day, I worked on a Wiki article and I had to include a large Excel spreadsheet into it. Just using the “copy and paste” approach didn’t seem to be a good idea because it would have taken hours to get this task completed. There must be a better method to do this –...

Welcome to Wednesday's Wiki Life ! Now there's something confusing. How is TechNet Wiki like a blog??? Didn't we already mention that TechNet Wiki is different than a blog? Wasn't that the point of this blog post... Wiki Life: Why should I use TechNet Wiki if I already blog about Microsoft technologies...

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...

Hello Folks, it's Wednesday, the day for Wiki Life! Today’s topic is, why should I promote TechNet Wiki? I believe some of you might have had thought about it already. Well, in my perception, the following are the reasons: TechNet Wiki is a community driven project, and by writing unique...

In the beginning there was TechNet and there was MSDN. Separate technical content on different Microsoft websites for developers and IT Pros. Then, one day not too long ago, some folks in each camp, primarily the ones involved in using Windows Powershell, said “Hey, there are some things, sometimes a...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. What is the wiki all about? Why are we writing article? Only for the sake of writing articles? I kindly disagree. Writing articles just to say "Hey, I'm writing articles" is only an answer if you ask someone who has written his first article...

Hello everybody, my name is Luiz Henrique Lima Campos, and today I will share a tip... here are 5 blogs that I always follow on TechNet. Blogs are very useful because they can help us solve many technical issues. They blogs I recommend are: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/ - SQL Server...

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...

Many of you are Wiki Ninjas in the TechNet Wiki . We appreciate your contributions and passion for helping others in the community, but there are many other places to contribute, some of them Wikis. So where else do you Wiki? Ad a comment to this post and share: Name and URL of the Wiki Link...

Hi ! Today I will show you how to fix a Wiki Article TOC. The "TOC" feature The “TOC” feature was introduced 2 years ago (see Wiki Life: How easy is it to add a table of contents? ) and is probably one of the most used feature on the TechNet Wiki, as it is easy to use: Use [toc]...

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...

A better question would be: What can't you do with the wiki? Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. What are we going to do today? In the last weeks we have seen how to write your first article , how to translate your first article and that the TechNet Wiki now has more...

One of the things that I like to provide (and see used) for longer TechNet Wiki articles are Return to top links. These are useful when an article is longer than just a section or two. I typically think about using the Return to top links when I feel it necessary to create a table of contents for an...

Funny things can happen when you start comparing things or people. From my University days, I remember reading a story in a study book that compared US criminals to Japanese criminals and I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to find it back. It turns out that Japanese criminals score 10 to 15 points...

Well, I'm introducing it to you if you haven't received a proper introduction yet.. But that's the only exception. Hey. Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Today we're going to take a look at a sweet Gallery script from Microsoft employee, Anil Erduran: Anil Erduran's Profile You can also...

Namaste All !!! Today is 2013-10-30 and it was the same day a couple of years back, when the first brick of Wiki Ninja Blog was set. The first post was written by Ed Price, About Wiki Ninjas - The Official Blog of TechNet Wiki It was an introduction of Wiki Ninja Blog where the purpose of having...

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...

Hello, and welcome, it's another Wednesday and its time for another Wiki Life ! We have written blog posts about how the wiki bond and connects technology and the community all together to a wonderful thing online, but that's not all the community itself is special. You get to meet and interact with...

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...

Hello Friends , Today I'm sharing a very cool bit of Geek information . Look! Exclusive: Music in Powershell!!! I was very impressed; it is very Geek . Open PowerShell and see for yourself; copy and paste from below , run the commands, and enjoy the Music . Music 1: The Imperial March (Star...

Hi, welcome to my first blog post. Lying is useless, I know you’re puzzled about this title. Here’s the story: a few weeks ago, I was discussing with Ed when he told me that a lot - sorry, A LOT - of articles in the TechNet Wiki don’t have any language tag (If you’re not aware...

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...

Statistics are an important part of using TN Wiki. “Are” I say? I should say “should be” an important part of using TN Wiki. If you’re creating or contributing to Wiki pages, it’s natural that you want to know if anybody reads it, to justify the effort you’re...

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...

This week I'd like to give you a sneek peak at one of the tools that I use in my Wiki Life. I use it to generate the Top Contributors of the Week Awards . It's a very simple web crawler, written in C# and WPF This doesn't win any style awards you understand, it is a quick and dirty tool to get...