The FIFA World Cup football is currently taking a fairly significant amount of my personal time, and so far my favourite team, the Dutch team is absolutely great. This is at the time of writing, it is very possible that by the team you read this blog post we’ve been eliminated, but I have good hopes that we’ll make it at least to the semi-final.

So, I was wondering about my Wiki World Cup team and came up with the following (unfortunately, some players had to be placed on the bench, but there’s no helping that).

Ed Price can be the coach. So Ed, the coach of the Dutch team Louis van Gaal is born in “Avenhorn” and is called the “Oracle of Avenhorn”. Where are you from, so we can decide on your nick name?

Coach:

• Ed Price - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/ed%20price%20-%20msft/

Here’s the rest of the team:

Consisting of:

• Luigi Bruno - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/luigi%20bruno/
• Margriet Bruggeman - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/margriet%20bruggeman/
• Benoit Jester - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Benoit%20Jester%20-%20MTFC
• Matthew Yerlett - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Matthew%20Yarlett
• Carmelo La Monica - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Carmelo%20La%20Monica
• Davut Eren - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Davut%20EREN%20-%20TAT
• XAML guy (Peter Laker) - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/XAML%20guy
• Durval Ramos - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Durval%20Ramos
• Gokan Ozcifci - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Gokan%20Ozcifci
• Craig Lussier - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/craig%20lussier/?ws=usercard-hover
• Steef-Jan Wiggers - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Steef-Jan%20Wiggers

Finally, but not less important, our bench players:

• Yottun8 -  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/tomoaki%20yoshizawa/
• Alan Carlos -  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/alan%20nascimento%20carlos/?ws=leaderboard
• Sandro Pereira - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Sandro%20Pereira
• Peter Geelen -  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/peter%20geelen%20-%20msft/
• Naomi Nosonovsky - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/naomi%20%20n/
• Horizon_Net (Jan Hentsche) - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Horizon_Net

On to win the world cup!

Continuing this amazing and humbling series, we now have, for the third week in a row, an announcement for a Wiki Ninja who became an MVP!

Please join me in congratulating Mohit Gupta!

1. Mohit's MVP Profile:

http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Mohit%20Kumar%20Gupta-5000452

You'll notice an emphasis in Mohit's activities are on his excellent TechNet Wiki articles...

TechNet Wiki Activities:

How to integrate Two way WCF Service with Windows Azure Biztalk Services

2/13/2014

Windows Azure Biztalk Services : Context Based Routing

2/4/2014

Using Windows Azure BizTalk Services to Insert XML Messages into an Azure SQL Server

1/29/2014

Using Windows Azure Biztalk Service to receive EDI file from multiple partner and convert to XML

1/21/2014

Use Windows Azure BizTalk Service (WABS) to Transform Flat File to XML

1/14/2014

How to Create BizTalk Server 2013 VM on Windows Azure With Few Clicks

2. Mohit's TechNet Profile:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/mohit%20kumar%20gupta/

Wiki Statistics:

• 3 BizTalk Guru Medals
• 5,737 TechNet Recognition Points
• 17 Wiki Articles (all high quality)
• 92 Article Edits
• 45 Wiki Comments

Top Wiki Articles:

• BizTalk Server 2010: How to use SFTP Adapter
• Using Windows Azure Biztalk Service to receive EDI file from multiple partner and convert to XML.
• How to integrate Two way WCF Service with Windows Azure Biztalk Services
• Installing BizTalk Server 2013 on Multiple Virtual Machine on Windows Azure
• XSLT Muenchian grouping - Biztalk Complex transformation

3. Mohit's Wiki Ninja Interview:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/11/18/interview-with-biztalk-wiki-ninja-mohit-gupta-mcc-and-technet-guru-medal-winner.aspx

Thanks to Maheshkumar for hosting this interview!

Here are a few excerpts:

Mahesh: Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies?
Mohit: My Name is  Mohit Kumar Gupta .I am 25 years old, live in Noida (near Delhi, India)  with my family (mother, father and Wife).
I have been in the IT industry for more than 4 years. I started my professional career with BizTalk server. Since then, I have been working with Biztalk, C#, Dynamic Ax, and WCF.

Currently working as a Senior BizTalk developer at Zones Inc.

Mahesh: What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?
Mohit:

Complex FlatFile parsing using Biztalk Schema and Map (This was a TechNet Guru winning article)
muenchian grouping using custom Xslt 

Mahesh: Who has impressed you in the Wiki community, and why?
Mohit: I would like to say thank to all  TechNet Wiki contributors who share their knowledge.

My special thanks to 

M.R.ASHWIN PRABHU
Saravana Kumar
Richard Seroter
Sandro Pereira
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Leonid Ganeline
Nino Crudele

Join me in congratulating Mohit on this well-earned honor!

   - Ninja Ed

We'll have more announcements as the team progresses, but I'm glad to announce that the French Wiki Ninjas are starting!

It's more than a group. It's a blog!

You can see some of the early thinking here...

French Council Bloggers (fr-FR)

When the blog launches, this is where it will live: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjasfr/

This will be our fourth language TechNet Wiki blog!

1. English: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/
2. Portuguese: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjasbr/
3. Turkish: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjastr/
4. French: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjasfr/

Have a great weekend!

   - Ninja Ed

Our (My) intention is to create a new era on the Wiki with eBooks, videos, Summits and much more. So contributors from all around the world can have excellent articles, eBooks and videos from all kind of writers and/or authors (Microsoft employees, MVP, MCC…). I’m proud and extremely happy to announce you the new Wikininjas eBook. Please make noise foooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor:

The WikiNinjas Guide to SharePoint – Part II

This eBook is not mine. It's also not yours. But it’s from the community. You can find many articles here written by Joe Davis, Magriet Bruggeman, Craig Lussier, Thuan Soldier, Benoit Jester, me and many other SharePoint addicts!

Please join me to congratulate the authors:

• Joe Davis
• Matthew Yarlett
• Thuan Soldier
• Craig Lussier
• Benoit Jester
• Margriet Bruggeman
• Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
• RaghuAriga
• Brent Groom
• Dan Christian
• Aulakh Amardeep
• Rashu Rahul
• Melick
• Jason Barkes
• Steven Andrews
• Jesper Arnecke
• Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade

I’ve been selected months ago by Ed Price to evangelize the Wiki in several ways. One of them was the Wikininjas eBook initiative that worked like a charm. We released many whitepapers and ebooks on the gallery and I’m proud to say that we ALL ROCK! Why? Our books are highly ranked on the TechNet Gallery.

The Wiki Ninjas Guide to SharePoint 2013 – IDTP is ranked 4 of 770 and the Wiki Ninjas Guide to SharePoint 2013 is ranked 6 of 770 contributions! This is absolutely amazing and I want to say a big thank you to all!

THANK YOU WIKININJAS!

Hello Microsoft Community!

My name is Alan Carlos and today is the day of Wiki Life! We the authors of Technet Blogs have as usual organized and defined various wiki authoring issues, addressing them in this Technet Wiki Blog, emphasizing a subject and approach this subject in the blog post. Today is Wednesday, the day we write a blog post about TechNet Wiki and cover an inherent issue, and today I will bring you tips on how to use the TechNet Wiki to assist you in doubt in the Microsoft products, such as installations, configurations, tips, among others.

The TechNet Wiki is a portal where articles of several members of the Microsoft community worldwide are concentrated, ie, is where we certainly have the best content on the Internet when it comes to Microsoft products, it leaves the community through articles Wiki, valuable content to be used in our day to day! :)

To use the TechNet Wiki is very simple! Today I will discuss two ways:

- Browse by Site Search with Filters

The TechNet Wiki has an easy search and use where it is possible to conduct research on issues.

Let's see an example: - I need to perform an installation of Windows Server 2012.

To perform a search successfully, I need to subdivide the subject as essential parts:

- Prerequisites for installing Windows Server 2012
- Tips for installing Windows Server 2012
- How to Install Windows Server 2012

After these essential parts, give emphasis to keywords in search as:

- Prerequisites for installing Windows Server 2012: (keywords): windows server 2012 installation requirements
- Tips for installing Windows Server 2012: (keywords): Windows Server 2012 installation tips
- How to Install Windows Server 2012: (keywords): install windows server 2012

Steps:

Visit the TechNet Wiki portal and go in search.

Use keywords, filter the origin and the topic for his research stay consistent. 

Note that carried an article with the information of the prerequisites of the Windows Server 2012 installation! Very simple, right? :)

In addition to this powerful research tool shown above, we also have the newest tool from Microsoft, the Microsoft Curah!

- Consultation by Microsoft Curah!

The Curah! is a portal where the community performs the insertion of a set of articles and "concatenate" by subject, thus facilitating research already about a certain topic you are researching. Is easy to use!

steps:

Visit the Microsoft website Curah!, And go into the search box. Type the topic in question and perform the search. Sure, I did a search on ALM (Application Management Lfecycle) and Portuguese to bring items that did curations! :)

 And ready, will now bring Curation and subsequent articles linked to her about it!

Ready! That's it, I hope you enjoy this post and until next time!

A big hug to everyone and we rely on your help in the community!!!!

Regards,

Alan Carlos
Brazilian Wiki Ninja

Go Azure!!!!!!