• Interview with a Wiki Ninja and Turkish Avenger -- Davut EREN

    Welcome to another episode of Interview with a Wiki Ninja!!!

    Earlier today, Hezequias gave us a great interview with a Portuguese contributor, Thiago!

    Now I'm proud to announce an interview with a valuable Turkish contributor in our always-growing international community...

      

    Davut EREN - TAT's avatar 

    Davut EREN - TAT

     

    Davut is a member of our Turkish Avenger Team (TAT)! You can find his blog posts on the Turkish blog (and soon on this one)! Check out his Turkish blog posts here:


    davut eren

     

    Here are some of Davut's accomplishments:

    • 54 Wiki Articles
    • 353 Wiki Edits
    • 169 Wiki Comments
    • 12 Turkish Wiki Ninja Blog Posts
    • 66 Blog Comments

     

    That's fantastic! Thank you, Davut for these community contributions!

    Let's get to the interview!

      

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

    Image: It is me! :)  

    I was born in Balikesir and living in the beautiful city of izmir in Turkey. I have been in the sector approximately for 10 years, and for a long time I have been a part of IT projects in the banking sector. Currently I am working in a corporate firm as a System Manager, and in this position I have managed various projects in the System Center. I have been trying to explain my experience with the articles I have published. From now on I will be sharing my experience via Technet Wiki. Additionally, you can follow me with the following links: www.davudows.com and www.davuteren.com.tr

    My special technology is Active Directory and System Center Family.

     

    What are your big projects right now?

    Image: A 2014 Award in Aykanlar – Best Project Award Deployment with SCCM 2012

    I completed a big deployment project with SCCM in my company for which I was recently awarded. Nowadays, I have been preparing for an MCT certification. I, together with my team, wrote an e-book about Microsoft Infrastructure Management and about System Center Service Manager (SCSM 2012), (I improve it, day one day.)  I have also been preparing to write a new e-book about System Center Configuration Manager. And also planning to give a seminar in end of july 2014 about System Center with my team friends. Really, I love System Center Family.

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

      

    Image: a photo after training

    Generally I spend most of my time in TechNet Wiki and in forums and blogs.

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

    Nowadays, I spend most of my time with System Center Survival Guide and Active Directory Audit Powershell Scripts.

     
     
    What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

    My favorite article is TechNet Wiki Turkish Ninjas Guide Microsoft Infrastructure Management.

     

    What are your top 5 favorite Wiki articles?

    This is not including my own articles: 

    Windows 2012 R2: Active Directory Best Practices for SharePoint Use

    Active Directory Services Audit - Document references

    Active Directory: PowerShell AD Module Properties

    T-SQL: Relational Division

    How to Extract Data in XML to Meet the Requirements of a Schema

     

     

    What could we do differently on TechNet Wiki?

    I wish Technet wiki had a page for event id. On this page people can search event id and try to resolve their problems with the help of other peoples’ past experiences about the same event id.
     

    Who has impressed you in the Wiki community?

    Absolutely Gokan Ozcifci and Ed Price,

       

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    Thanks, Davut! It's great to have you part of the TAT family, and we're super excited to have you join us here, as an author on the Wiki Ninjas English blog!

    It's also good to see you contributing in System Center! We just added System Center as a TechNet Guru category, so perhaps you can translate one of your articles into English and then we'll have a few of us review the English grammar for you. Then we can enter it (or more than one) into the TechNet Guru System Center category for February. =^)

     

    Everybody, please join me in thanking Davut for all his contributions to our community and please welcome him to the English Wiki Ninjas bloggers!

       - Ninja Ed

  • Interview with a Client Development MVP, Windows Phone Development Guru, and Wiki Ninja - Isenthil

    It's time for another Interview with a Wiki Ninja!

    This interview is with...

    Isenthil

    Isenthil was one of our earliest contributors to the Windows Phone Development category of TechNet Guru. To date, he has 2 gold medals and 5 total medals! This is especially impressive since he's only written 5 Wiki articles!

    Let's learn more about this Windows Phone Development gold medal Guru and Client Development MVP! 

      

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

    I am Senthil Kumar (Twitter), a software engineer and a Microsoft MVP – Client Development from Bangalore, India. I am a post graduate in computer applications (MCA) from Christ College, Bangalore. I am in the IT industry for about 5 years now and have had the opportunity to work on variety of technologies like C#, Entity Framework, Winforms, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Delphi, PHP, Infor ERP, SQL Server, CMS like WordPress, Drupal, etc.

     

    What are your big projects right now?

    Currently, I haven’t thought of earning any certifications, but I'm planning to prepare for it in the next few months. I have been covering a series of blog posts on "Windows Phone and Oxygene development" and "Visual Studio 2013 tips and tricks" in my blog "MobileOSGeek".

    You can also see me active in the user group meetings where I would be volunteering or speaking in various user group meetings (Bangalore .NET User Group), webinars, and events like the Cloud OS MVP Roadshow, VTC 2014, etc.

     

    What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

    TechNet Wiki is one of the great resources for technology enthusiasts like students, developers, testers, designers, professionals, etc.

     

    What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?

    TechNet wiki has good number of resources that helps and guides the professionals about a specific topic.

    I liked the TechNet guru of the month competition, an interesting program that lets the users share great content and also get recognition in terms of the awards.

     

    What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

    Some of my favorite articles which I have contributed include

     

    What are your favorite Wiki articles?

    That’s a very difficult question to answer. There are so much good and quality articles in Wiki. Each article is edited by the community members or users, and this improves the quality of the article as well.

    If I was given an opportunity to pick my favorite articles. I would pick all the articles from the Windows Phone categories in the TechNet Wiki Tech guru of the month page. :)

     

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

    Definitely, it’s Ed Price :). I see Ed price and Naomi who are so active in the Wiki pages, improving the quality and accuracy of articles.

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    It's great to finally learn more about you, Senthil!

    Please join me in thanking Senthil for all his contributions to the community, and feel free to ask him more questions!

       - Ninja Ed 
     

  • TechNet Wiki Magazine Third Edition | TechNet Wiki, Reporting Services, Power Pivot, Windows Server 2012 R2, SharePoint, BizTalk Server, WPF, LINQ, Active Directory, Windows 8.1 and XAML

    Exciting news for the community… the third edition of TechNet Wiki Magazine has just been released!

    This edition includes topics such as:

    • TechNet Wiki Blog and TechNet Wiki life
    • Reporting Services
    • Power Pivot
    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • SharePoint Server
    • BizTalk Server
    • WPF and MVVP
    • LINQ
    • Active Directory
    • Windows 8.1 and XAML
    • and many more...

    In a total of 26 new articles.

    To be the spotlight article in the cover of this third edition, I have chosen one of my TechNet Wiki article: "BizTalk Server: Glossary"

    Stay tuned for next editions! The magazine will get better and better because soon our next releases will be published with new content.

    You can find the TechNet Wiki Magazine in Flipboard in your favorite device from Apple (iPhone, iPad), Android, Windows 8, and so on… or simply through the Internet browser at: https://flipboard.com/section/technet-wiki-magazine-b0doW5

  • Wiki Ninjas Stick Figures - The Soccer Collection!!! (for Brazil winning the Translation Challenge)

    So, in the latest Translation Challenge...

    WINNERS of the 2013 TechNet Wiki Translation Challenge!!! - Find out who won: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Turkish!!!

    The total results were 205 articles translated into 8 languages by 11 translators in just 7 weeks! So go check it out!

    Brazil won!!!

    1. Portuguese - 95 articles!

     

    And one of the prizes was to have a new Wiki Ninja Stick Figure designed for Brazil!

     

    Durval said (in the comments):

    Ed, this figure could be related to soccer, in tribute of history between Benoit and Hezequias divided into two Communitie and also Benoit playing with the little story of the "Footix mascot" =^b. Anyway, it was fun and would be a good souvenir

    Ed, I've been thinking a Wiki Ninja stick that was closer than is Brazilian soccer and only came an image in my mind. A stick figure with "yellow shirt", "blue shorts" and a traditional ball (black and white). 

      

    You can download all the images of this Soccer Collection here on TechNet Gallery:

    Wiki Ninjas Stick Figures - The Soccer Collection (TechNet Gallery item)

       

    As you can guess, I made a fresh batch of Wiki Ninja Stick Figures for this! I decided to go with green, yellow, and blue. Let's take a look...

    This one (above) can be used for any Wiki Ninja soccer fans! Now some color...

    For this Brazil version, we start to see some of the yellow and green! Now a slight difference...

    Slight difference in the Ninja headband... no black outline. Let's drop some color from that ball...

    Okay. Now he needs some clothes! Let's give him some shorts...

     

    Great! Now a shirt!

    Looking good! Now let's do this one with the colored ball...

    Okay. And one with no color on the ball and a black ninja headband...

    Alright! Let's try it with blue shorts...

    Next here's the blue shorts but with a green headband...

    And without the yellow shirt...

    And switch out the headband for a black one...

    And finally let's try that with the green shorts and the black headband...

     

    You can download all the images of this Soccer Collection here on TechNet Gallery:

    Wiki Ninjas Stick Figures - The Soccer Collection (TechNet Gallery item)

     

    And there you are! A lot of options in this Soccer Collection!

    What do you think?

    Which one is your favorite?

     

    Thank you once again to Durval, Hezequias, and Marcelo for providing 95 translated Wiki articles!

       - NInja Ed

  • Top Contributors Awards! Windows Server 2012, plus behold... C#, .Net & SharePoint LINK FEST! Pin back your eyelids, we've a lot of reading to do!

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

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

     

    Nice to see Mahesh up there in the hundreds, with Peter and Ed, leading the contributors board this week!

    Congrats to Mustafa, for all the new articles he's been churning out!

     

    As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

     

    Ninja Award Most Revisions Award  
    Who has made the most individual revisions

     

    #1 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 141 revisions.

      

    #2 Ed Price - MSFT with 117 revisions.

      

    #3 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 114 revisions.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 João Eduardo Sousa with 68 revisions.

      

    #5 Hezequias Vasconcelos - MTFC with 57 revisions.

      

    #6 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 52 revisions.

      

    #7 Alan Nascimento Carlos with 50 revisions.

      

    #8 Carsten Siemens with 35 revisions.

      

    #9 Yagmoth555 with 21 revisions.

      

    #10 Hasan Dimdik - TAT with 21 revisions.

      

     

    Ninja Award Most Articles Updated Award  
    Who has updated the most articles

     

    #1 Ed Price - MSFT with 95 articles.

      

    #2 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 84 articles.

      

    #3 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 52 articles.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 43 articles.

      

    #5 João Eduardo Sousa with 35 articles.

      

    #6 Carsten Siemens with 24 articles.

      

    #7 Hezequias Vasconcelos - MTFC with 22 articles.

      

    #8 Alan Nascimento Carlos with 22 articles.

      

    #9 Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT with 16 articles.

      

    #10 Richard Mueller with 11 articles.

      

     

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

     

    The article to have the most change this week was Configuring the Windows Server 2012 R2 Base Configuration Test Lab in Windows Azure, by Joe Davies

    This week's reviser was Joe Davies.

    Well, "most change" as in deleted! As the remaining link says, it is now available somewhere else, so I am guessing this page itself may get removed due to its futility.

     

    So I'll mention the article to have the SECOND most change this week, a new article called .NET Resources on Technet Wiki, by Peter Geelen - MSFT.

    This week's reviser was Peter Geelen - MSFT.

    What a fantastic collection of links from Peter. Could do with some organising or grouping maybe, but it is an invaluable bookmark for anyone wanting to just trawl through random .net related articles.

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week

     

    This week's largest document to get some attention is SharePoint 2010 : Custom BCS connector for Search with Security Trimming, Batching, Incremental Crawling, by Nitin K. Gupta.

    This week's reviser was Nitin K. Gupta.

    This is a great collaboration document, from Nitin Gupta and Vaibhav Sharma. There's a whole heap of code with this one, but plenty of detailed descriptions scattered through it too. Great work guys!

      

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

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is SharePoint Resources on the TechNet Wiki, by Maheshkumar S Tiwari. It was revised 25 times last week.

    This week's reviser was Maheshkumar S Tiwari.

    Another colossal collection of links, this time for all things SharePoint.

    Both Peter's and Mahesh's articles are hopefully being entered in this month's Guru competition, as they both fit into the new "Wiki & Portals" category.

    This new category is for articles which are about the actual wiki itself, or portal pages (link lists to other TechNet/Wiki pages) 

     

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

     

    The article to be updated by the most people this week is TechNet Guru Contributions for January 2014, by XAML guy.

    This was mostly people tidying it in retrospect, as January is closed, but still wins on a slow week for collaboration.

    This week's revisers were XAML guy, Ed Price - MSFT, Naomi N, Richard Mueller, Madhu_SA & Maheshkumar S Tiwari.

     

    The article to be updated by the SECOND most people this week is Wiki: Portal of TechNet Wiki Portals, by Richard Mueller.

    A fantastic portal page, that is growing into an alpha point for the whole wiki.

    This week's revisers were Richard Mueller, Yagmoth555, João Eduardo Sousa, Naomi N & Carsten Siemens.

     

    The article to be updated by the THIRD most people this week is Visual C# Resources on the TechNet Wiki, by Maheshkumar S Tiwari.

    Another great collection of links here from Mahesh. Keep up the great work sir!

    This week's revisers were João Eduardo Sousa, Carsten Siemens, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Maheshkumar S Tiwari & Paul Ishak.

     

     

    Ninja Award Ninja Edit Award  
    A ninja needs lightning fast reactions!

     

    Below is a list of this week's fastest ninja edits. That's an edit made to an article after another person made an edit:

    We are so lucky to have this many dedicated individuals, working together in the TechNet Wiki community. So many regular names, and always a few new ones too!

    See you next week for so much more awesomeness!!

     

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker