• TNWiki Article Spotlight - Articles About DevOps

    Posted 9 months ago
    by Alan Nascimento Carlos}

    Hello Community!

    Today, for this week's TNWiki Article Spotlight, I give you articles about DevOps!

    If you didn't know, DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration, and integration between software developers and IT Operations teams. Simply put DevOps tries to create a synthesis of Developers and Operations (hence the name) in the same team with the same goal.

    Microsoft took this view, and they rejoined their solutions... System Center and Visual Studio ALM to work together with their tools.

    Articles:

    Team Foundation Server 2012 RC – Install & Configure
    Author: Kishore Gaddam

    Resume: Step-by-Step to install Team Foundation Server

    Integrating Operations Manager with Development Processes
    Author: Byron Ricks

    Resume: Article explaining how to integrate Team Foundation Server and System Center Operation Manager.

    Visual Studio Authoring Extensions for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
    Author: Brian Wren

    Resume: Article explaining how to create management packs for operation manager using Visual Studio.

    TFS 2010 Build-Deploy-Test
    Author: AnujChaudhary

    Resume: Article with useful information and links on how to configure Team Foundation Server (TFS) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

    ALM - Integration Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Project Server
    Author: Alan do Nascimento Carlos

    Resume: Step-by-step instructions showing how to integrate Team Foundation Server and Project Server (EPM).

    Visual Studio IntelliTrace
    Author: Jaliya Udagedara

    Resume: Article explaining how to use the Intellitrace.

    ALM - DevOps - System Center Global Service Monitor – Overview
    Author: Alan do Nascimento Carlos

    Resume: Overview of monitoring cloud service from Microsoft System Center.

    ALM - DevOps - Dashboard of your Microsoft Test Lab Manager
    Author: Alan do Nascimento Carlos

    Resume: Article explaining how to configure a dashboard for managing your Test Lab.

     

     

    There is much more material available on Technet Wiki that the DevOps community is sharing. I hope to be able to talk a bit more about this topic soon, about uniting IT OPS and DEV teams!

    See you soon! 


    Alan Carlos - Brazilian Wiki Ninja

  • Top Contributors Awards!! BizTalk Guru talk, Hybrid Cloud Deep thought, February TN Guru Deposit Bonanza, plus... Happy Birthday Ed!

    Posted 9 months ago
    by XAML guy}

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

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

     

    Hurrah for Benoit! A tremendous performance by Ben this week, rocketing him to the top of the charts!

    Alan commanding a masterful lead of the New Articles tally too!

     

    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 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 198 revisions.

    #2 Gokan Ozcifci with 121 revisions.

    #3 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 55 revisions.

     

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

    #4 Tomasso Groenendijk with 50 revisions.

    #5 i.biswajith with 42 revisions.

    #6 Richard Mueller with 38 revisions.

    #7 Craig Lussier with 34 revisions.

    #8 Mr X with 33 revisions.

    #9 Carsten Siemens with 32 revisions.

    #10 Nonki Takahashi with 30 revisions.

     

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

     

    #1 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 130 articles.

    #2 Gokan Ozcifci with 109 articles.

    #3 Craig Lussier with 32 articles.

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

    #4 Richard Mueller with 20 articles.

    #5 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 17 articles.

    #6 Tomasso Groenendijk with 14 articles.

    #7 Davut EREN - TAT with 14 articles.

    #8 Ugur Demir - TAT with 14 articles.

    #9 Durval Ramos with 9 articles.

    #10 Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT with 9 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 new arrival, Migrating BizTalk Server maps to Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) maps, by Sandro Pereira

    This week's reviser was Sandro Pereira,

    This is an entry by Sandro for the February Guru Competition, and another fine piece of work it is to, from somewhat of a legend in the BizTalk chronicles.

    Good luck Sandro, thanks for giving us such detailed awesomeness!

    Also in the news, the March competition page has just been released!

    Let's see who's first to contribute!

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week

     

    This week's largest document to get some attention is Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Design Considerations, by Thomas W Shinder - MSFT

    This week's reviser was Craig Lussier,

    This is just a colossal tome of knowledge from Thomas and always worth a mention.

    This is just full of eye popping and mind expanding stuff, it would enrich the most experienced cloud user developers with at least one more thing they never knew they didn't know. 

     

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

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is The Man Behind TechNet Wiki, by XAML guy, Jayakumaur (JK), Ed Price - MSFT, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Richard Mueller, Durval Ramos, Naomi N, Bruno Lewin - MSFT, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Davut EREN - TAT, Craig Lussier & Margriet Bruggeman. It was revised 69 times last week.

    This week, the TechNet bloggers and councilors came together in an outpouring of gushy love for the big man that is Ed Price.

    When we heard it was his birthday, we colluded behind darkened doorways and shady chat rooms, to concoct a birthday page for the man that we all agree drives TechNet Wiki to new heights!

    Happy Birthday again Ed.

    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 February, by XAML guy

    Wow, what a busy end to the month for TechNet Guru, with many players only revealing their hand in the last days and hours of February. 

    This week's revisers were Mr X, Magnus (MM8), Ramakrishnaraja, Eihab Isaac, Benoit Jester - MTFC, Carsten Siemens, Jayakumaur (JK), HimanshuSharma, Durval Ramos, Tim Pacl, dev hedgehog, Ed Price - MSFT, Praveen Rayan D'sa, IshamMohamed, Nonki Takahashi, Shweta Jain, Richard Mueller, Mohit Kumar Gupta, Ahmad Osama, Sandro Pereira, ChristophMaresch, Jaliya Udagedara & João Eduardo Sousa

     

    That hyperactivity around the Guru competition even pushed The Man Behind TechNet Wiki, by XAML guy, Jayakumaur (JK), Ed Price - MSFT, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Richard Mueller, Durval Ramos, Naomi N, Bruno Lewin - MSFT, Peter Geelen - MSFT, Davut EREN - TAT, Craig Lussier & Margriet Bruggeman into second place!

     

    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 to an article after another person

    Wow, some great activity this week, with most new content based around the Guru competition and most activity based around Ed's secret birthday surprise.

    It was heart warming to see how quickly the bloggers and councilors came together with birthday messages for Ed.

    It is also amazing to see how many top quality professionals are gravitating to the Wiki through the Guru awards.

    I am very proud and honoured to get to know you all.

     

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker

     

  • Top Contributors Awards! Windows Server 2012 R2 WSUS, Data Validation in MVVM, Gurus, TATs, and legends in the making!! Yes that could mean YOU!

    Posted 9 months ago
    by XAML guy}

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

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

     

    Mmm..monster score from Mehmet this week, with Mohammad also scoring incredibly high!

    Top ninjas Carsten and Peter also producing a busy wiki week. We salute you all!

    Yelenah and Benoit topping the new articles monthly tally this week. Lovin' your work guys!

     

    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 Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT with 404 revisions.

      

    #2 Mohammad Nizamuddin with 193 revisions.

      

    #3 Carsten Siemens with 109 revisions.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Sandro Pereira with 52 revisions.

      

    #5 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 49 revisions.

      

    #6 Durval Ramos with 48 revisions.

      

    #7 i.biswajith with 24 revisions.

      

    #8 Matthew Yarlett with 23 revisions.

      

    #9 Naomi N with 16 revisions.

      

    #10 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 16 revisions.

      

     

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

     

    #1 Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT with 392 articles.

      

    #2 Mohammad Nizamuddin with 147 articles.

      

    #3 Carsten Siemens with 78 articles.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Sandro Pereira with 41 articles.

      

    #5 Durval Ramos with 25 articles.

      

    #6 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 23 articles.

      

    #7 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 11 articles.

      

    #8 Yavuz Tasci -TAT with 9 articles.

      

    #9 Tomasso Groenendijk with 8 articles.

      

    #10 Matthew Yarlett with 7 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 Windows Server 2012 R2 WSUS 4.0 Kurulumu ve Yapilandirma Bölüm 1 (tr-TR), by Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

    This week's revisers were Yavuz Tasci -TAT & Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

    This new article from TAT member Mehmet a beautifully illustrated guide on how to use Windows Server 2012 R2 WSUS to keep everyone on the same page, so to speak!

     

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week

      

    This week's largest document to get some attention is Data Validation in MVVM, by Srithar

    This week's reviser was Mohammad Nizamuddin,

    This was a winning article for the TechNet Guru competition, back in January '14.

    This is a very good introduction to a very important subject in the XAML world.

     

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

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is TechNet Guru Contributions for March, by XAML guy. It was revised 15 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Nonki Takahashi, Geetanjali Arora, Rahul A Shinde, dev hedgehog, Manjunath Sullad, Matthew Yarlett, loplim, Mr X, Raghunathan S & Naomi N

    Yey for March, as we MARCH into another month of absolutely awesome articles! Have you posted something yet?

     

    This week's second most fiddled with article is Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR), by Gokan Ozcifci. It was revised 13 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Ugur Demir - TAT, Davut EREN - TAT, Recep YUKSEL - TAT, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT & Ersin CAN - TAT

    The TAT have their own blog, and are busy growing a great community of Turkish leaders and legends. 

     

    This week's third most fiddled with article is How to create .EXE of PS1, by i.biswajith. It was revised 12 times last week.

    This week's reviser was i.biswajith,

    It's new, and it's for you! Lots of illustration too. i.biswajith is a beloved regular here. His bio reads "Always evaluate/test yourself before using/implementing this!"

     

     

    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 March, by XAML guy

    This week's revisers were Nonki Takahashi, Geetanjali Arora, Rahul A Shinde, dev hedgehog, Manjunath Sullad, Matthew Yarlett, loplim, Mr X, Raghunathan S & Naomi N

     

    The article to be updated by the most people this week is Turkish Avengers Team Council Center, by Gokan Ozcifci

    This week's revisers were Davut EREN - TAT, Ersin CAN - TAT, Hasan Dimdik - TAT, Ugur Demir - TAT, Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT & Recep YUKSEL - TAT

     

    The article to be updated by the most people this week is Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR), by Gokan Ozcifci

    This week's revisers were Ugur Demir - TAT, Davut EREN - TAT, Recep YUKSEL - TAT, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT & Ersin CAN - TAT

     

    Two at the top from the TAT. A great team, to be sure.

    Reminds me of the teamwork and camaraderie of a group in an on-line MMORG.

    All watching each other's backs. All helping each other excel.

     

    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 to an article after another person

    We had a truly huge number of article edits this week, great work everyone.

    Keep the quality content coming, we are building a formidable library of knowledge, with some big names being made.

    Help us help others, and your name will be known for generations to come.



    Have a great week! 

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker

     

  • Interview with a Wiki Ninja, MVP, and Visual Basic Guru Winner - Paul Ishak

    Posted 9 months ago
    by Ed Price - MSFT}

    Welcome to our Monday series, Interview with a Wiki Ninja!

    Today's next interview is with...

    Paul Ishak's avatar 

    Paul Ishak

    Paul's Wiki stats:

    • 23 articles!
    • 100 article edits!
    • 57 Wiki comments
    • 7-time TechNet Guru award winner!

    Here are some popular Wiki articles from Paul:

     

    And now, to the interview!

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

    Paul Ishak, born in june of 1976, live in Las Vegas, I work in the Computer/Audio/Visual Field. I have been programming with "basic" syntaxed languages since I was 7 years old. I started on a commodore 64 and worked my way through a variety of different similar basic languages until the late 90's where I finally got my first exposure to Visual Basic. I feel sorry for AOL at that time... nuff said.

     

      

    What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

    A place where information collides and creates new ideas or exposes people to old topics for the first time. To me, TechNet is for everyone, learning is for everyone, expert or newbie.

     

    What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?

    Information from minds that are willing to share for free is appealing to me because it comes from a genuinely interested mind.

     

     What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

    I am really liking my recent contribution(braille code). Mainly because I have fun tinkering around with GDI. I also like my not-so-recent article about converting System.Decimal datatype to an array of bytes. I enjoy working with binary/bytes just as much as GDI! See Drawing Braille Characters with GDI.

     

     

    What are the top areas that need more attention and development on TechNet Wiki?

    Visual Basic needs more attention period. 

     

    What could we do differently on TechNet Wiki?

    Have TechNet-generated hit counters and statistics.

    Integrate TechNet Wiki with the forums, and add a feature to "convert forum thread" to technet article.

    I might also suggest a "nominate forum thread" for Wiki conversion option as well, where if enough people make a nomination...

     

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

    For my area of interest, I would have to say that I never skip the reading of an article by Reed Kimble. Reed always has a deep insight to the topic at hand.

     

    What does success look like for TechNet Wiki?

     I think TechNet Wiki is already successful, so just take a look at TechNet Wiki and you will see what success looks like!

     

     

    Do you have any tips for new Wiki authors?

    Take your time, make it worth reading...

    Save your article's HTML source to a text file, that way you don't have to rush to finish in one day.

    Take the time to draw illustrations if it helps clarify your topic

    Take the time to create commented source code

    Read and re-read what you have written

    Clarity is key to expressing an idea

    Create an example project in the MSDN gallery, link to it from your TechNet Wiki article!

     

    Thank you to Paul for all your contributions (and for being patient with me publishing this)!

    Please join me in thanking Paul for all his incredibly fun and creative contributions about Visual Basic!

        - Ninja Ed

  • Top Contributors Awards! Translations translated! World of PowerShell! Gurus and legends!!

    Posted 9 months ago
    by XAML guy}

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

    First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

     

    Unfortunately, many of Daniel's contributions seem to be plagiarised from other sources, so some of his articles will probably be removed, mostly by Peter Geelen, who comes second! So Daniel just making work for Peter :D 

     

    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 Daniel Cristian Sauer with 72 revisions.

      

    #2 Carsten Siemens with 66 revisions.

      

    #3 Recep YUKSEL - TAT with 49 revisions.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Markus Vilcinskas with 48 revisions.

      

    #5 Richard Mueller with 35 revisions.

      

    #6 Ed Price - MSFT with 26 revisions.

      

    #7 Shanky_621 with 24 revisions.

      

    #8 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 23 revisions.

      

    #9 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 21 revisions.

      

    #10 Idan Vexler with 20 revisions.

      

     

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

     

    #1 Carsten Siemens with 64 articles.

      

    #2 Recep YUKSEL - TAT with 41 articles.

      

    #3 Daniel Cristian Sauer with 28 articles.

      

    Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

     

    #4 Richard Mueller with 25 articles.

      

    #5 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 18 articles.

      

    #6 Shanky_621 with 13 articles.

      

    #7 Ed Price - MSFT with 12 articles.

      

    #8 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 9 articles.

      

    #9 Tomasso Groenendijk with 8 articles.

      

    #10 Ersin CAN - TAT with 7 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 Wiki: How to Translate TechNet Wiki Articles, by Ed Price - MSFT

    This week's reviser was Ed Price - MSFT,

    Well, rather entertainingly, this wins most content changed award because someone TRANSLATED the translation document it into another language REPLACING the original English version!

    So Ed had to revert it. Although it's reverted, the translation adds to the weekly tally and makes this the winner. 

     

     

    Ninja Award Longest Article Award  
    Biggest article updated this week

     

    This week's largest document to get some attention is Windows Server 2012 R2 - Essentials Experience PowerShell Commands, by RobertPearman

    This week's reviser was Carsten Siemens,

    What a monstrous list of PowerShell commands!  A must to bookmark!

     

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

     

    This week's most fiddled with article is Windows PowerShell Connector for FIM 2010 R2 Flat File Sample Connector, by Markus Vilcinskas. It was revised 28 times last week.

    This week's revisers were Brian Desmond & Markus Vilcinskas

    PowerShell being the flavour of the week, as this excellent article arrives fresh from the keyboard of Markus.

     

     

    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 March, by XAML guy

    A final flourish of activity as the March techno-march comes to an end.

    This week's revisers were João Eduardo Sousa, Ibraheem Osama Mohamed, Ed Price - MSFT, Peter_Lindgren, The Thinker, Jaliya Udagedara, CatfishAndGrits, Shanky_621, Nonki Takahashi, Colin Meade, Matthew Yarlett, Steef-Jan Wiggers & Michael Amadi

     

     

    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 to an article after another person

     

    Thanks to everyone for their hard work this week, even if some people's work was later removed, it's the taking part that matters! :)

     

    Best regards,
    Pete Laker