In the past we have talked about portals in the wiki from time to time. Ed made with decent Arnold Schwarzenegger accent, Durval with the community portals and I with the Power BI portal and the User Groups portal. Today I want to add another portal to this list - the SQL Server 2014 portal. Again Durval Ramos has created this one. What does the portal contain at the time of writing? It links to some articles about the database engine, trainings and other references.
So, go to the portal and fill in some more articles!
Today's interview is with another member of the TechNet Wiki Turkish Avenger Team (TAT), Zulfikar Caglar!
Who are you, where are you, and what are you doing? What is your specialty technology?
I'm an IT Professional, currently working as a Technology Solution Professional for select Microsoft’s Solution Partner based in Istanbul. With 15 years of experience on the field, my focus is on Microsoft infrastructure technologies and business productivity especially Server and Unified Communication
I have been certified as an IT Pro Trainer for Microsoft with an expertise on Windows-based server and client technologies, including Active Directory services and Exchange Server solutions. I deliver Microsoft Official Courses as well as custom workshops of technical content. I am particularly strong on certification trainings. I love sharing my knowledge and volunteer as a Mentor for valuable colleagues who want to become certified trainers.
My participation in projects of medium-sized and large sized companies as a consultant or supervisor have allowed me to gain valuable designing skills for implementing secure but efficient network infrastructures, as summarized below:
Business Infrastructure Planning & Design Server Systems Implementation & Maintenance Windows Server Configuration & Management Microsoft Server Virtualization Planning & Implementation Business Critical Data Backup & Disaster Recovery
Unified Communication Infrastructure Planning & Design
In 2010 I started to answer questions in the Forum on TechNet, I continued on occasion. Two months ago I became involved with the TAT team through Gokhan Ciftci. I'm here for now
What's your biggest project right now?
My biggest project right now is that I want to write and share more Turkish technical articles. Because in my country, we can't find enough content. Furthermore, I want to spread my area of expertise in the Microsoft based unified communication platform (LYNC)
Besides your work on TechNet Wiki, where do you contribute?
I am writing several articles on several Turkish community and in my own blog.
What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?
TechNet Wiki is for the information, and the information is to share with everyone
What can you do with Technet Wiki and how do you do it?
My area of expertise are Unified Communication, Enterprise Voice and VoIP. I want to write and share this topic in my free time.
What is it that interests you about Technet Wiki?
Recently I have found a lot of Lync Server articles that I want to read and translate.
On which articles do you spend most of your time?
I am writing some articles about Lync 2013 Server and Enterprise Voice
This is a useful article indeed, and one which brings back many er.. unhappy memories... there was much pain caused by 2768494, and who can forget 2786454 and what laughs we had remembering 2870165 eh? OK I'm joking a little, but nice to have the full rogues gallery listed ;)
Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week
Yahahh!! Turkish Avengers strike again! Wherever there is work to be done, questions to be answered, knowledge to be shared, our beloved TAT will spring up and save the day! We love you guys.
Richard is one above us mere mortals. He is in fact considered a demigod in some TechNet circles. His pen often wafts over our offerings, turning everything he touches to pure gold. This fine article from Richard just grows and grows, like a tree of knowledge. One day this will be a mighty oak tree of acronyms.
Most Popular Article Award Collaboration is the name of the game!
I just love the energy and passion of these guys, so I haven't skipped them this week as the top three are the usual names, but the work from the TAT lately is quite amazing.
And that will jump you down to this new whitepaper:
Using Power BI in a Hybrid Environment
Many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud computing such as lower capital expenditures and increased agility, while still maintaining data in on-premises data stores. This paper describes best practices for security, networking, and component architecture for building a hybrid business intelligence (BI) environment by using a combination of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises data sources.
Applies to: SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure Publication date: August, 2014 Source: Download Center
Of course, I'm especially proud of this whitepaper, because it was identified as a big content gap by our Power BI customers, I project-managed it with the help of Carla Sabotta, and we got some of our brightest SQL Server MVPs to author it (Joey D'Antoni and Stacia Misner).
And special thanks to all our reviewers! They are listed at the top and with more info at the bottom of the whitepaper.
