Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week.

First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

Maheshkumar still leading the pack this week! With Naomi close on his heels, and Carsten also in triple figures.

As is common now, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

#1 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 242 revisions over 120 articles. Yey Maheshkumar! A new ninja emerges!

#2 Naomi  N with 160 revisions over 54 articles. Superb work Naomi, thanks for all your input again!

#3 Richard Mueller with 116 revisions over 75 articles! Great work as always Richard!!

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

Slightly different line-up this week, than the award above...

#1 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 120 articles.

#2 Carsten Siemens with 97 articles

#3 Richard Mueller with 75 articles!

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

The article to have the most change this week was CẤU HÌNH DIRECT ACCESS TRÊN WINDOWS SERVER 2012 (VI-VN) by new member Đồng Phương Nam.

This superbly huge article has been copied in from his own blog site, and we are very grateful for the contribution.

Welcome Dong and thank you for your hard work.

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is NEW ARRIVAL (rare for long article awards) CẤU HÌNH DIRECT ACCESS TRÊN WINDOWS SERVER 2012 (VI-VN) by new member Đồng Phương Nam.

So I'll also highlight second longest article CẤU HÌNH NIC TEAMING TRÊN WINDOWS SERVER 2012 (vi-VN), also by Đồng Phương Nam.

These are both superb articles Dong.

May we ask one thing? Please avoid capital letters, especially in titles. Thank you!

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

This week's most fiddled with article is new arrival T-SQL: Applying APPLY Operator by the world renowned SQL Guru, Naomi  N. This week Naomi made 18 revisions. 

This is yet another outstanding contribution to the  TechNet Guru for August competition, which closes for another month tonight, at midnight PST.

Good luck Naomi, and to everyone who contributed to another bumper competition for August.

Smallest Significant Edit Award   Size isn't everything! Every edit counts.

Ignoring the addition of tags, this week's smallest but valuable tweak was to Data Protection Manager to Back Up Exchange 2010 by Rahmat Fedayizada. The valuable tweaks were by this week's "man of the match", Maheshkumar S Tiwari.

This is always one of my favourite awards, because it's about the small things in life that collectively all add up to a community win.

Maheshkumar's most valuable tweaks was to simply add full stops wherever needed, to Rahmat's excellent article.

Most Popular Article Award   Collaboration is the name of the game!

The article to be updated by the most people this week is Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule by Ed Price - MSFT, master Ninja of the Wiki.

This article will give you an insight into the workings of TNWiki, listing which of our carefully selected Ninja bloggers will be posting on which dates.

I had only recently updated this article with a couple more month's of slots, and as you can see it is filling up quickly!

Thanks to all our bloggers and to everyone for supporting them with comments of encouragement and approval.

Another huge number of articles updated this week, thanks to everyone for your hard work,.

I include literally every change for my analysis in this weekly blog, so your hard work never goes unnoticed!

Best regards,
Pete Laker

It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner!

Congratulations to Ike Ugochuku, our FIM Guru winner for July! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for July 2013.

Here is the gold-medal-winning article:

FIM 2010 R2: How to Bulk Import Attributes Flow Rules into a Synchronization Rule in the Portal

Now let's look at all the winning articles: 

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - July 2013

Just the two entries, so Bronze goes unclaimed this month. Great work however from the two we received.

And here's an excerpt from the article:

Overview

I had to create 6 Sync rules each one with 100+ attribute flows. It would take me at least 2 dedicated workdays to do this repetitive task. My research revealed that the only means available to automate this task is to adapt the Migration deployment steps

FIM 2010 Configuration Migration Deployment Steps

Here is how I adapted these steps to accomplish this work in less than 20 minutes.

Pre-requisites

1. FIM 2010 R2 should be installed, the sync engine and the Portal should be installed.
2. The FIM Service MA should be configured and synchronized.
3. In the sync engine make sure that all the required Metaverse (MV) attributes are present, there may be some custom attributes that need to be created. In the Management Agent for the sync rule make sure all the required local attributes have been selected.
4. Refresh the Portal schema. Go to the FIM Service MA re-enter the MA account password and click ok.
5. Make sure you can run powershell scripts on the server.
6. Make sure you are logged with an account with rights to the Portal e.g the Portal service account.
7. Go to the FIM Portal and create the Sync rules you want e.g Contoso AD Sync Inbound, Contoso AD Sync Outbound.  See the following links below on how to do this

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Read the rest here:

FIM 2010 R2: How to Bulk Import Attributes Flow Rules into a Synchronization Rule in the Portal  

Thanks to Ike Ugochuku for your great contribution to the TechNet Guru contest! You can read about all the July winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - July 2013

Also, for the August Guru competition, see TechNet Guru Contributions - August 2013.  

Are you a Wiki Ninja? http://technet.com/wiki

    - Ninja Ed

It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner!

Congratulations to Magnus (MM8), our WPF Guru winner for July! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for July 2013.

Magnus' Blog: http://blog.magnusmontin.net/

Here is the gold-medal-winning article:

WPF/MVVM: Binding the IsChecked Property of a CheckBox to Several Other CheckBoxes

Now let's look at all the winning articles: 

WPF Technical Guru - July 2013

Only three entries and all three are winners for July. WPF is a popular technology, so hopefully we will see more entrants soon.

And here's an excerpt from the article:

Defining a GroupStyle

To define the appearance of each group of countries, i.e. a continent, you specify a GroupStyle and add it to the GroupStyle property of the ItemsControl. This property contains a collection of GroupStyle objects that determine the group style for each level of groups (to support cases where you may have multiple levels of grouping) with the entry at index 0 describing the top-level group, the entry at index 1 describing the next level and so on.

The GroupStyle class has a ContainerStyle property of type System.Windows.Style that is used to determine the style for each group item in the same level. You can completely redefine the look and feel of a group item by specifying a style that sets the Template property to a custom ControlTemplate. In the sample markup below, an Expander control with a three-state CheckBox control and a TextBlock for displaying the name of the group in its header are used. The ItemsPresenter element is used within a template to specify where the ItemsPanel with the bound objects, i.e. the Country objects in this case, defined by the ItemsControl is to be added in the control’s visual tree.

Note that the style will be applied to elements of type System.Windows.Controls.GroupItem and the DataContext of each of these group elements is a MS.Internal.Data.CollectionViewGroupInternal object which you can see if you use the WPF Visualizer – a tool that lets you search and drill down the visual tree produced by WPF – when debugging the application in Visual Studio:
 

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WPF/MVVM: Binding the IsChecked Property of a CheckBox to Several Other CheckBoxes

Thanks to Magnus (MM8) for your great contribution to the TechNet Guru contest! You can read about all the July winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - July 2013

Also, for the August Guru competition, see TechNet Guru Contributions - August 2013.  

Magnus won a Bronze Medal in June and came back to win the Gold in July! Please join me in congratulating Magnus on this well-deserved win!

Are you a Wiki Ninja? http://technet.com/wiki

    - Ninja Ed

Hello Community, Luciano Lima here today to update you on the latest news in the TechNet Wiki international community from Australia.

The highlight of this week goes to Leandro Carvalho, who wrote several of articles about Hyper-V.

Leandro Carvalho is a specialist in Hyper-V and is a reference to the community.

Websites: http://leandroesc.wordpress.com/ (English)

                  http://msmvps.com/blogs/msvirtualization/ (Portuguese)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/leandroeduardo

Author: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

Listed below you can see the articles about tips for Hyper-V written by him:

Great work!

Big hugs go to the TechNet Wiki community, keep up the contribution, have a great Friday and don’t forget to tweet #TNWIKI and follow us:

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It's time for another July TechNet Guru winner!

Congratulations to Ken Tucker, our Windows Phone Development Guru winner for July! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for July 2013.

About Ken: MCPD.  I am interested in MVC, WP8, WP7, and Windows Store apps. An MVP, MCC, and Microsoft Partner, who works at Sea World.

Here is the gold-medal-winning article:

Create an Analog Clock in a Windows Store Application

Now let's look at all the winning articles: 

Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - July 2013

Nine great articles contributed for July, thanks to everyone in the Windows Store category. Sachin S also contributed FOUR great articles for July and narrowly missed a medal. Hopefully we will see more from all these players in August?

Also, Jaliya had an impressive showing with more medals in another category! Jaliya also won all three medals for the Visual C# category!

And here's an excerpt from the article:

This sample uses xaml and C# to create an analog clock in a windows store application. Xaml allows you to vary the angle of lines when drawn on the screen. I used an ellipse as the background of the clock. We will draw 3 lines for the hour, seconds, and minute hand on an analog clock.

The C# code:

        DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer(); 
 
        public MainPage() 
        { 
            this.InitializeComponent(); 
            timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1); 
            timer.Tick += timer_Tick; 
            timer.Start();  
        } 
         
        void timer_Tick(object sender, object e) 
        { 
            secondHand.Angle = DateTime.Now.Second * 6; 
            minuteHand.Angle = DateTime.Now.Minute * 6; 
            hourHand.Angle = (DateTime.Now.Hour * 30) + (DateTime.Now.Minute * 0.5); 
        }

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Create an Analog Clock in a Windows Store Application

Thanks to Ken Tucker for your great contribution to the TechNet Guru contest! You can read about all the July winners here: TechNet Guru Awards - July 2013

Also, for the August Guru competition, see TechNet Guru Contributions - August 2013.  

Join me in congratulating Ken on his first TechNet Guru gold medal!

Are you a Wiki Ninja? http://technet.com/wiki

    - Ninja Ed