Today, you get a bonus blog post on the Tuesday topic of featuring articles. You're going to help us decide 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 Wiki, we feature four articles:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/

And, once again, you get to pick the next article! Just so you know, the basic process is we try to rotate in technologies that haven't been featured recently or at all. And that's how we come to these five articles (based on what's been nominated; you can add your own nominations in the Nominees section).

Simply reply with a comment and let me know which article you want featured. Everybody gets one vote.

Your deadline is 2PM PST, Friday, 4/5/13.

Here are your five candidates to choose from:

Getting Started: Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET - by Horizon Net 

How to Increase the VHD Size in Hyper-V R2 - by Leandro

Lync Server Documentation Errors and Gaps - by Henrik

SQL Server Samples Readme - by Marianne

Windows Phone 7 Application With Federated Authentication - by Alik 

Which article do you think we should feature? Leave a comment! One vote per person.

Here's the TechNet Wiki tag of the previously featured Wiki articles. That's basically a list sorted by most recently edited. Or for lists sorted by technology or chronologically when it was featured, read the list at the bottom of the TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees article.

The options were pulled from the list of nominations. Do you want to nominate an article to get featured? Simply add it as a nominee in the Nominees section of the TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees article.

Wiki Wiki, What now?

- Ninja Ed

Hello and welcome everybody to our Monday Interview with a Wiki Ninja post.Today it is a pleasure for me to hold my first interview with a Wiki Ninja.Let's get started on our interview...

Engin's Profile

Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?

My name is Engin Yükselen.I live in Istanbul.Turkey and I am working as an Technical Support Specialist for Microsoft Platform,specialized technologies are Windows Server,Active Directory,DNS,DHCP Server,File Server,Exchange Server,TMG and System Center Family.Nowadays,my primary product is Office 365.


What are your big projects right now?

I am working on Server 2012 and Exchange 2013 exams and studying Office 365 certifications which is Administering Office 365 and Deploying Office 365.

Besides your work on TechNet Wiki, where do you contribute?

I contribute at TechNet forums that answering questions as a moderator and also sharing technical information,articles and videos into the forums.


What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

According to me TechNet Wiki is a better platform for sharing information and getting technical information and also TechNet Wiki is the source information pool for Microsoft Products such as Windows Server,Exchange and Everyone that is need information contribute by publishing articles or videos.


On what Wiki articles do you spend most of your time?

Everything that is related Windows Server,Active Directory,Exchage Server and Office 365


What are your top 5 favorite Wiki articles?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8222.windows-server-2012-developer-preview-read-only-domain-controller-kurulumu-bolum-1-tr-tr.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8224.windows-server-2012-developer-preview-read-only-domain-controller-kurulumu-bolum-2-tr-tr.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13693.windows-powershell-3-0-ile-windows-server-2012-active-directory-kurulumu-tr-tr.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4715.group-policy-survival-guide.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6407.aspx


Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?

I'm impressed with all user who is contribute in the Wiki especially Serhad Makbuloğlu, He is so knowladgeable person in Microsoft Products area and also helps me on this platform.

Do you have any comments for product groups about TechNet Wiki?

There is a lot of technical materials in TechNet Wiki and it is growing day by day and also publish much more articles,virtual labs would be better in TechNet Wiki.

Thank you, Engin, for the interview and for your great contributions to the Turkish community on TechNet Wiki!

Turkish Ninja Serhad

blog: http://serhadmakbuloglu.com

twitter: @smakbuloglu

For today's Interview with a Wiki Ninja, I'm interviewing...

Rafael Mantovani - Profile

Rafael has written 73 TechNet Wiki articles, has made 364 article edits, and has commented on the Wiki 213 times! He is an incredibly valuable contributor to the TechNet Wiki community! And it's far more impressive once you find out all the Microsoft technologies that Rafael helps lead the communities for. Let's get started on our interview...

Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?

English - My name is Rafael Mantovani, I´m from São Paulo and live in Curitiba, Brazil. Currently working at a Microsoft Partner as Support Enginneer, where i am responsible for troubleshooting Exchange issues. My specialty technologies are Directory Services, Exchange, and Office 365.

Português - Meu nome é Rafael Mantovani, sou de São Paulo moro em Curitiba. Atualmente trabalho em um parceiro Microsoft como Support Enginneer, onde sou responsável por solucionar problemas relacionados ao Exchange. Especialista em Directory Services, Exchange e Office 365.


What are your big projects right now?

English - Studying for Office 365 certifications and maintaining my personal blog: http://rafaelmantovani.net/

Português - Estudando para certificações de Office 365 e mantendo meu blog pessoal http://rafaelmantovani.net


Besides your work on TechNet Wiki, where do you contribute?

English - I contribute at TechNet Forums answering questions and as a moderator, creating MVA courses like Introdução ao Active Directory http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/introducao-ao-active-directory, Noções básicas sobre instalação de servidores https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/nocoes-basicas-sobre-instalacao-de-servidores, and Webcasts.

Português - Contribuo nos Fóruns TechNet respondendo perguntas e como moderador, criando cursos MVA como Introdução ao Active Directory http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/introducao-ao-active-directory, Noções básicas sobre instalação de servidores https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/nocoes-basicas-sobre-instalacao-de-servidores e Webcasts.


What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

English - TechNet Wiki is a source of information related to Microsoft Products, which can assist us quickly on a specific subject. Everyone can contribute by creating new articles, and also can edit/add information to existing articles.

Português - TechNet Wiki é uma fonte de informação relacionada aos produtos Microsoft, que podem nos ajudar rapidamente em um assunto específico. Todos podem contribuir com a criação de novos artigos, e também editar/adicionar informações aos já existentes.


What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?

English - Contribute to the TechNet Wiki to build my personal Knowledge Base and help people solve issues in their environment (sometimes I use the Wiki to find and solve issues that already have a written article, but I can't remember how to fix them and can't find them when I search for them).

Português - Contribuir para o TechNet Wiki para construir a minha base de dados de conhecimento pessoal e ajudar as pessoas a resolver problemas em seus ambientes (as vezes pego alguns problemas que já escrevi artigos mas não lembro como corrigir e procuro por eles).
 
 
On what Wiki articles do you spend most of your time?

English - Everything related to Active Directory, Exchange, and Office 365.

Português - Tudo relacionado ao Active Directory, Exchange e Office 365.
 
 
What are your favorite Wiki articles you´ve contributed?

Delegando Controle: Usuário Perde a Permissão Após Aproximadamente 01 Hora (AdminSDHolder e Protected Groups)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5253.aspx
 
 
What are your top 5 favorite Wiki articles?

Preparação para o exame 70-662
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/13304.preparacao-para-o-exame-70-662.aspx

Guia de Sobrevivência: Office 365
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/12537.guia-de-sobrevivencia-office-365.aspx

Removendo Alertas de Segurança do cliente Outlook
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/15647.removendo-alertas-de-seguranca-do-cliente-outlook.asPx

Solucionando Problemas: Não é possível acessar o OWA apresentando Acesso Negado (Access is denied)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/pt-br/contents/articles/12479.solucionando-problemas-nao-e-possivel-acessar-o-owa-apresentando-acesso-negado-access-is-denied.aspx

Solucionando Problemas: Não é possível realizar tracking de mensagens utilizando o Message tracking do Exchange Server 2010, aparecendo sem resultado “No Results”
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8162.solucionando-problemas-nao-e-possivel-realizar-tracking-de-mensagens-utilizando-o-message-tracking-do-exchange-server-2010-aparecendo-sem-resultado-no-results-pt-br.aspx
 
 
Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?

English - Yuri Diogenes at a Community Zone, where he lectured on how to contribute to the TechNet Wiki and general questions. Friends from community with their dedication and amount of contributions.

Português - Yuri Diogenes em um Community Zone, onde palestrou sobre como contribuir para o TechNet Wiki e questões gerais. Amigos da comunidade com sua dedicação e quantidade de contribuições.
 
 
Do you have any comments for product groups about TechNet Wiki?

English - Thanks so much for this opportunity; continue with this great work.

Português - Muito obrigado por esta oportunidade, continue com este grande trabalho.

  

Thank you to Rafael for the interview! Please ask Rafael any more questions in the comments below!

   - Ninja Ed

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 found the theatrical explanation of a signature:

A signature (from Latin: signare, "to sign") is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a signature is a signatory or signer. Similar to a handwritten signature, a signature work describes the work as readily identifying its creator. A signature may be confused with an autograph, which is chiefly an artistic signature. This can lead to confusion when people have both an autograph and signature and as such some people in the public eye keep their signatures private whilst fully publishing their autograph.

I know from the past that Ana Paula de Almeida created an International collection of Wiki Ninja stick figures.  There are fourteen (14) stick figure variations of the International Wiki Ninja in this series. The images include: Brazilian Ninja, Chinese Ninja, Russian Ninja, Korean Ninja, Italian Ninja, Spanish Ninja, Turkish Ninja, American Ninja, French Ninja, Hungarian Ninja, Indonesian Ninja, Japanese Ninja and German Ninja.

You can download all the stick figures here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ninjas-Stick-Figures-8e1fd859

I’ve decided to create my signature with the Turkish Figure and created something like that:
 
  
  
 

As said, a signature should be unique; something that is reflecting yourself. Something that’s a part of you. Something that you will be proud to share and use. Recently Serhad Makbuloglu joined our team. I’m very proud that he joined our team because I know him personally and he is a wonderful “big brother” for me. He also came from the fantastic Turkish Community and uses the figures of Ana.

We both have the same signature and when I search on internet “Turkish Ninja Wiki” I can see our both pictures..

I decided to check each Wiki Ninja Contributor’s signature to see if they had an unique signature:
 

The answer is "YES" .. I will work on a new signature and hopefully for my new blog post get it out. This is my draft  :-) :

But my question is the following: Do you think that a little detail can change our world by unifying our signatures ( to get more visibiltiy ) ?

Regards,

Gokan Ozcifci ( ex Turkish Ninja ) 

Welcome back for another analysis of weekly contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week (Fri-Sat)

A day late, as blog submissions were broken last night :/

Firstly, here is the weekly leader board snapshot

Yeh, scoreboard broke again :/ 

Congrats to the chosen few above, anyway.

Below are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

Richard Mueller (MVP) comes first this week, with 204 revisions over 164 articles. Nice work Richard!

Carsten Siemens is a new entry in second, with 60 revisions over just 58 articles.

StarrAndersen, also a new entry, comes third, with 56 revisions over 17 articles.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Not always the case, but this week's "most articles" awards go to the same three:

Richard Mueller (MVP) is first, with 164 articles.

Carsten Siemens is second, with 58 articles.

StarrAndersen, is third, with 17 articles.

Most Updated Article Award   Largest amount of updated content in a single article

The article most updated this week is System Center Configuration Manager 2012 - Utilizando Application Catalog, new in by AllanOSilva.

This Portuguese article shows how to use the Application Catalogue, to publish and deliver applications to users in your environment, or distribute it to the machines.

Second biggest changed document is Wiki: Het gebruik van de Editor (nl-NL), translated by Peter Geelen - MSFT and tweaked by Fernando Lugão Veltem.

This is the translation of Wiki: How to Use the Editor and a very useful article, thanks for your translation efforts Peter, and tweaking powers Fernando! 

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

The largest article to receive some attention this week is as previously highlighted, Windows Root Certificate Program - Members List (All CAs) by Tom Albertson MSFT.

A tremendously huge document for people who need this kind of thing. And I just noticed the comments at the bottom... XD

Second place is Cómo incrustar SQL Server Express en una aplicación (es-ES), by Monica Rivera an epic and worthy translation of How to Embed SQL Server Express in an Application.

Thank you  also to Ed Price - MSFT for the tweaks!

Most Revised Article Award   Article with the most revisions in a week

The article to receive the most revisions this week is our very own Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule, by Ed Price - MSFT. This week our resident bloggers have been filling in the chart for the next period (21 revisions this week) 

If you follow any bloggers, this is a page worth bookmarking and following ;) 

Therefore second place winner is : AD RMS - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Kurt L Hudson MSFT which was revised 17 times this week by Richard (MVP) and a couple of Microsoft bods.

Thank you all for your wiki work this week!!!

Oh and regarding biscuits, we sent you a cookie ;)

Best regards,
Pete Laker