The intention of a Wiki Community Win article is to provide an example of great collaboration. Instead of pointing to a specific Wiki article, I want to take a moment and discuss how Wiki Ninja interviews put a face to the TN Wiki Community and thereby add real value to collaboration.

As a side note, I’ve found that “collaboration” is a popular word in Microsoft technology (especially in the various SharePoint technologies).  For me, this took some time to get used to. I grew up disliking this word, in the Netherlands the term “collaboration” got tainted during World War II and in fact means “working together with the enemy” (see  http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboratie, Dutch only and http://www.history.co.uk/explore-history/ww2/collaboration-and-resistance.html). This is a huge difference to the term as currently described by Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration; here collaboration only means working together to achieve a goal.

History lesson is over. Let’s see how Wiki Ninja interviews put a face on the TN Wiki Community. For example, take my Wiki blog post “The Big Bang” metaphor (http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2012/06/17/the-big-bang-metaphor.aspx)... I noticed a nice comment by Fernando Lugao Veltem. Now, I saw his name before, but that was all. So, as a first step, I’ve checked out his profile and find out that he’s heavily involved in TN Wiki, and that I don’t speak enough Spanish to understand what he’s doing. Things become clearer after reading his interview (http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2012/01/02/interview-with-a-windows-server-and-exchange-mcc-wiki-ninja-fernando-lug-227-o-veltem.aspx). Now I know a lot more about him, such as that he lives in Brazil and can be trusted with your server park.

To me, this is what brings life to a virtual community. Getting to know your peers a little bit better makes it more fun to participate and lowers the barrier for contributing to the Wiki pages of others, and therefore the entire brand of TN Wiki Interviews is my example of great collaboration.

It has been an interesting week for soccer fans as the European championship soccer started in Poland/Ukraine.  For Windows Azure adapets it has been a week to remember as several announcements on Windows Azure were made. Microsoft hosted a live streaming event with Scott Guthrie 7th of June from San Francisco (Meet the New Windows Azure). In coming weeks you can expect Wiki articles on new services like:

• Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• Windows Azure Virtual Network
• Windows Azure Web Sites

These are exciting new services available on Windows Azure.

Another important release in coming months will be Windows 8. The release preview is currently available. Windows 8 is the new desktop, yet we will also see the release of Windows Server 2012 (Release Candidate is available). Last but least we might see releases of a new Office and SharePoint version (code named Office 15 and SharePoint 15) at the end of this year. Microsoft will be probably try to make them available as Beta in June around TechEd's (US is June 11-14, and Europe is June 26-29). During the events more of these and other products (i.e. Exchange 15, Visual Studio 2012) and technologies will be revealed. These major releases will result in a plethora of Wiki articles that will further enrich the TechNet Wiki.

Welcome to the weekend surprise! Today I am making a small post and will compare the Wiki to something unusual.. a tube of glue..

Of Course.. Yes !

Why I made that link between the glue and the Wiki you migth ask me. I got three reasons:

1 – It glues anything that comes in contact with. Yes, sometime it can take some times to glue, but small article might explode after some months. Like that article that was edited a lot after some times: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1780.external-backup-drives-compatibility-list.aspx

2 – It glue any material that can come in contact with it. Like that article that cover a lot of category in the subject: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/125.hyper-v-survival-guide-en-us.aspx. It glues the subject all together.

3 – It’s attractive. Like a glue’s tube can be attractive to a child! Don’t try to remove them the tube after they got it and don't forget it on the table without supervision!

In the same order of idea I could compare the TechNet Library to a "Epoxy Glue". Not everyone is used to use epoxy. You need to take a pair of glove, take your time and be sure where you spot the glue because you have less in the bottle. The glue will stay longer in it's original state, but the TechNet Wiki come balance that as you get more freedom and easy of use as everyone can use normal glue and come over your publishing!
 

Let me think of your idea(s) !!

- French Ninja Phil (Wiki, Profile)

 Welcome to our Saturday blog post, the Top 10 Contributors of TechNet Wiki for the week!

I've featured myself before, so today we're going to focus on the activities this week from R.Alikhani. Congratulations also go out to Fernando, Thiago, Richard, Roger, WReed, Luciano, Tim, and Tschaur! Great contributions this week!

Now let's look at...

R.Alikhani's Profile

R.Alikhani has several certificates, including MTCNA, Security+, MCSA, MCTS, and MCP.

All of R.Alikhani's TechNet Wiki Articles

His contributions this week range from smaller helpful edits, like clarifying OWA in this article and updating titles to title casing (which is important for overall consistency in the look and feel), to contributing more in his own articles:

• The Case that an Administrator Cannot Log On to the Domain from a Client Computer (en-US)
• How to Use Computer Management Console to Log Off a Computer Remotely in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 (en-US)
• Windows Server Backup Tool and Its Relation to Windows Event Log Service (en-US)
• Using Windows Server Backup Tool Requires a User with Local Administrator or Local Backup Operator Credential (en-US)
• The "The Filename, Directory Name, or Volume Label Syntax is Incorrect" Error Message Appears in the Remote Installation Folder Location Phase of the Configuring a WDS Server (en-US)

R.Alikhani has a great knowledge of Windows Server and Windows IT. Congratulations!

Jump on in! The Wiki's warm.

   - Ninja Ed 

Welcome to another weekly addition of our Top Contributors!

We featured Margriet three weeks ago, but we're featuring her again because she got to the #1 spot this week, because she's got some SharePoint 2012 Best Practices up, and, well, the only ones who haven't been featured yet are people with less than 20 edits this week. So we're featuring Margriet again. Check it out...

Here is Margriet...

Margriet's Profile

And since Margriet is a Wiki Ninjette, we present her with the best way we could possibly honor her, with the Wiki Ninjette...

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm!

   - Ninja Ed