Currently I am in my third year in the MVP program. Still very focused on sharing my knowledge and experience with the community, interacting with the BizTalk Product Group and fellow Microsoft Integration MVP's. In my view is that the community, MVP's, MCC's and the Product Group need each other and...

"Brothers in arms" is a pretty well know phrase or soundbite if you like. What is the actually meaning of this phrase? It means that men are fighting side by side. Like in World War Two in Europe or the Pacific the soldiers were eating, sleeping, training, fighting and dying together. It is like a close...

What is the story on Microsoft's Integration Stack and how important is the role of the TechNet Wiki? Over the years the Microsoft integration stack has grown from on-premise technologies and products like BizTalk Server, WCF Services, SQL Server Integration Services, Host Integration Server, Windows...

Hello and welcome to (y)our Sunday Lists! I was away for a while because I became the father of a little boy named TAHA. I stopped with Blogging on my website, stopped with tweeting, stopped with blogging on Wiki Ninjas, stopped with moderating on the forums etc... But I’m back now! ^^ At...

The first time I worked with Windows was in 1995. I was a lab technician back then working on a medicine for anti-coagulants used during a angioplasty surgery. This medicine was produced during a down stream bio engineering process. It had to be tested during each phase of the process. Data collected...

Did you know we now have 14,571 pages on TechNet Wiki? That's 14,000+ pages that you (the 4,150 community members) added, you refined, and you discussed! Thank you to every one of our contributors! Here are the current numbers... Main Wiki (English + Other Languages): 4,150 users have contributed...

Hello the community, It a shiny Sunday at Belgium today and I’m very tired after the SharePoint Saturday yesterday but this is not a reason to forgot my post! Today I want to talk about “signatures” on TechNet Wiki and TechNet Blogs ! After searching a while on internet I’ve...

It's time for our last July TechNet Guru winner! Good thing too, because we're getting ready to vote for the August Gurus! Congratulations to Pituach , our SQL Server Database Engine Guru winner for July! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for July 2013 . About Pituach : Ronen Ariely, Programmer...

It's just a drop in the bucket compared to what's possible. But it's still an important milestone, and it shows that the Microsoft community is serious. 2,834 users have contributed 10,042 pages, 54,129 revisions, and 25,586 comments. You can find the current stats any time here, on the right column...

One of the aspects I enjoy most about the TechNet community is creating TechNet gallery uploads. I like the fact that when I create a tool for personal use I can share the burden of testing it with the community, I like the new ideas that sometimes follow after sharing a tool or pieces of code stemming...

Welcome to our Sunday Lists ! Check them all out! So sometimes people want to know how to get others to read and edit their articles. Well, that's not nearly as interesting to me as how to make sure no one reads and edits your article! So let's list those ways instead! I'm beginning the snark tag...

Hi everyone. Today I’am on the hunt ! (With my slingshot in my pocket and some beans – just kidding ) I just saw a new Microsoft’s title ( new is subjective as it’s new for me ). MTAC I saw that title from profile (like here or here ) My curiosity started to kick in...

Hi everyone ! Today I will show you somes easy steps to hide your wiki articles like a ninja’s can ! Thou shalt : Don’t link any articles from any social’s media like twitter. That just make more users come around your articles. It’s not like any major social’s media...

There are many 3rd party tools available or ones from Microsoft that can help a professional in building robust applications. This accounts for many technologies and server products like BizTalk Server, .NET, and SharePoint. The TechNet Wiki plays an essential role describing these tools, how to use...

Recently Microsoft made some changes to the MVP program. The BizTalk program for instance has been retired and all BizTalk MVP's are moved to a new group called Microsoft Integration . This means that some of the BizTalk MVP's that contributes to TechNet Wiki are now Microsoft Integration MVP's. All...

Last post before the Christmas holidays will be on AppFabric. In my previous post two weeks ago I wrote a story on BizTalk Server and what community has contributed on this great technology. In this one I'd like to discuss AppFabric. When you talk about AppFabric in a certain context than it can either...

We often ignore this point and often all the credits go to the author (and he deserves it), but in all most diverse books or articles of different technologies there is a common factor among them: we can always see a note of gratitude to the reviewers and editors from the author. For those who are...

If you look at BizTalk Server from a certain viewpoint you can roughly divide it into three categories: deployment, development, and administration. This post will be on the second category, Development, and what has been contributed on TechNet Wiki so far by community members on this category. Last...

Congratulations to Reed Kimble , our VB Guru winner for May 2013! To find all the competitors for May (and more information about this monthly contest), see the Wiki article: TechNet Guru Awards, May 2013 . About Reed : [Adult Swim] fan, EQII player, and has broad interests in computers, electronics...

Hello community, As predicted by the Maya’s, yesterday was the end of the world, but today I’m living so I guess that they were wrong. Before beginning I’d like to wish you ALL a merry Christmas!! Today I’m going to explain how to learn, install and Configure Sharepoint...

Peter Laker will be back later with the list of winners, but we have quite a few contributions for June for the judges to go through! See TechNet Guru Contributions - June 2013 . Which articles do you think the judges should pick? Leave a comment below! BizTalk The TechNet Guru June competition...

I will be not the first nor last one that will blog, tweet or share through other social media that BizTalk Server 2013 is RTM . The 8th release in little over twelve years. That is amazing as I do not believe any Server Product has such a release cadence. Impressive as the Microsoft BizTalk Server Product...

Today’s a Sunday special, which gives me the flexibility to be a little off topic. And when I say a little off topic, I actually mean completely off topic. In June 2012, Ed Price did an interview with me about my many professional accomplishments (ahum, just kidding, you guys got that right?)....

So this is my first weekend surprise sorry for the lack of links, they will come tomorrow morning! It's one week left till the MVP Summit (celebrating 20 years with the MVP award) in Seattle and I wanted to share something with you. We have the articles on the TechNet wiki on how to become MVPs or MCC...

Before I get started with my first post as a Wiki Ninja blog author, I’d like to thank Ed Price for bringing me on board. I am truly looking forward to this journey. When I was a young tech, I had the privilege of learning the disciplines of information sciences while working in the field with...