All the votes are in! (finally)

And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, July 2014 !!!!

Results were a few days late this month, due to many judges being on vacation. 

The TechNet Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors like YOU!

Each month, the contributions are scored by a panel of judges (5 per category, 2-3 in each are MS experts), and the winners of each category are showered with love and attention from all corners of TechNet.

See the links at the bottom, to find out more about the competition and how to enter.

We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon.

The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category.

The last column is just a few of the comments judges made during the judging process.

In some cases, we have not obtained permission to use the judges names, so they have been reduced to initials.

My fellow wiki ninjas will be digging deeper into some of these articles in this blog series, so watch out for those.

Starting this month you will notice some articles are marked as failing to meet our minimum bar for quality or content.

Any of our judges can exercise their right to veto an article, if they do not feel it meets minimum requirements for a medal.  

When this is the case, we will at least give an indication of the reason, so you understand why.

A big thank you also to the other authors who did not make the top three of each category.

Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.

BizTalk Technical Guru - July 2014

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• BizTalk Developer Interview Questions and Answers - HL7 by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
  Sandro Pereira: "Great set of HL7 questions and answers. Nicely done Maheshkumar."
  Ed Price: "Good content set on the answers. Good use of See Also and the TOC!"

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - July 2014

Scott Eastin

How to Calculate Manager Reference Value from PeopleSoft SQL View

PG: "This article is not discussing clasic, traditional way of managing reference/manager attribute. Nor is it discussing why the default way of working might fail. Furthermore this article uses multiple un support techniques." Ed Price: "Good sample that can be applied to other data as well! Because this article received two negative votes, it auto-dropped to Silver. There is an excellent debate about the merit of this unsupported method in the article comments! Thank you to Scott and Peter for adding transparency to this topic!"

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - July 2014

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Microsoft Azure and Availability Sets for VMs by Mr X
  JH: "Great explanation of availability sets. It would be worth to mention were you can find this feature in the Azure portal."
  Ed Price: "The images pop. Great conclusion! Could benefit from a See Also section. Great article!"
• Download you Azure website with Kudu by M.I. Isham Mohamed
  JH: "Short overview about a widely unknown feature. Some more information or pictures would be nice."
  Ed Price: "Short and interesting. Could benefit from more information,and maybe an example use case. The image is great. Thanks for bringing more light to this engine!"

Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - July 2014

Miscellaneous Technical Guru - July 2014

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• •How to execute a SQL query in Powershell by Brian Nadjiwon
  TGN: "Good snippet, but the article needs more content."
  Ed Price: "Good code formatting. Could benefit from more explanation and then breaking the code apart to explain how it works. Good contribution."
  Richard Mueller: "Interesting code demonstrating a query example. Should this be in the TechNet Gallery?"

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - July 2014

Small Basic Technical Guru - July 2014

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Small Basic: Resources for Game Programming by Nonki Takahashi
  RZ: "Nicely organized and categorized resources. Game programming is no doubt the propulsion behind the advancement of computer technology :)"
  Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good overview of game programming resources. Get inspired!"
• Small Basic: Sound by Nonki Takahashi
  Michiel Van Hoorn: "Who needs sound :-)"
• Small Basic: File by Nonki Takahashi
  Michiel Van Hoorn: "All the practical basics for file handling."
• Small Basic Known Issue: 25471 - Sound.PlayXXXAndWait() Does Not Wait in Remote by Nonki Takahashi
  
• Small Basic Known Issue: 25568 - Shapes.Zoom() Stops Program with 0.7 or Smaller Scale of Transparent Image in Local by Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: Community Channels by Ed Price - MSFT
  
• Small Basic Known Issue: 25669 - Turtle Operations in Event Handlers Cause Browser Hang Up in Remote by Nonki Takahashi
  
• Small Basic Known Issue: 25671 - Turtle.Show() Doesn't Show Turtle after GraphicsWindow.Clear() or Turtle.Hide() by Nonki Takahashi
  

SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - July 2014

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - July 2014

	Sean Gallardy	Cell Level Encryption With Always On Availability Groups	DB: "Interesting" Jinchun Chen: "Excellent." Ed Price: "Wow, great code and depth! The down side is with the personal "blog-like" tone, it's harder to collaborate on a Wiki article. (What if someone adds a section or a link to a similar article on a newer version? Is it still personal?) Anyway, the content is fantastic!" NN: "Very interesting article" Samuel Lester: "Great write-up, very informative, and outstanding technique when building up the explanation of the problem." DRC: "The article contains lot of information and a very clear explanation of each and every steps. It also provides all the necessary links for related topics. An important change which need to be made is : its not Always ON, its AlwaysOn. "
	Shanky	How to Install SQL Server 2012 SP2 on Standalone Instance of SQL Server	NN: "Nice article" Samuel Lester: "Super informative, this will help a lot of people to walk through the process." DRC: "<> This article explains the detailed steps of install and uninstall of Service pack. But i'm not sure whether we need such a detailed explanations for applying service pack. <> Considering the number of SP install issues, this article would helpa  lot of users overcome the issue. " Ed Price: "This is a great "how to" article! It could be improved with a grammar pass. (Feel free to ask me or others in advance so we have time to help.) While this does duplicate some existing Library content, I like how it links to the related articles at the bottom and this does add new depth, which can be very helpful! Another great article!"

System Center Technical Guru - July 2014

Transact-SQL Technical Guru - July 2014

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Formatting T-SQL queries output from JSON model by Durval Ramos
  Ed Price: "This is a good topic with great code formatting, images, descriptions, and it's very well supported with References, See Also links, and even a Portuguese translation! Great job!"
  Richard Mueller: "Well formatted article."
  JS: "I am not a fan of providing formatting with the result set of a query. This should be done on the business or as a last resort on the presentation layer."
  
• T-SQL : Find Word Matched Count by Hasham Niaz
  Ed Price: "Good formatting and code snippets! It could benefit from more explanations of what the code's doing. Great article!"
  Jinchun Chen: "Nice"
  Richard Mueller: "I needed better explanation."
  

Visual Basic Technical Guru - July 2014

.paul.

Simple_database_LogIn_system

MR: "Great article! Well written. Good note on plain text password. Don't forget to disable controls on hidden panels!" Ed Price: "Amazing! The formatting is incredibly clean, and great response in the comments by addressing the encryption concern with a great section in the article! It would also be good to have the code sample available on the MSDN Gallery. Fantastic article!" Richard Mueller: "A very useful article that deserves to win. Could use more comments in the code. The "See Also" should link to other Wiki's."

Visual C# Technical Guru - July 2014

Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - July 2014

Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - July 2014

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - July 2014

Windows Server Technical Guru - July 2014

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Basic Method for Troubleshooting a Domain Controller by seansobey
  Ed Price: "Good information and resource links!"
  Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! For question #2 giving a link to the DS forum and for #3 to the Windows Server General's forum could be a good idea !"
  JM: "This is a good article for basic DC troubleshooting."
  Richard Mueller: "A great list of useful commands for basic troubleshooting."
• IIS7+: Renewing a SSL Certificate by FZB
  Ed Price: "Great topic and information! "
  JM: "This article has good content, but needs revision for clarity and additional scope."
  Richard Mueller: "Needs more explanation."
• DCDiag: Missleading DNS test failure in a multi-sited parent/child-domain scenario by FZB
  Philippe Levesque: "Good troubleshooting ! I would maybe add to the article the eventid associated, or what started the diagnostic"
  Richard Mueller: "Very interesting issue deserving more study. It would help if the example command output were single spaced."
  JM: "This article is unclear and will benefit from artwork depicting the scenario you're discussing, in addition to expanded and revised text."
  Ed Price: "Good topic. Could use more explanations. Thanks for the contribution!"
  

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  A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to July's competition.

  Hopefully we will see you ALL again in August 2014's listings?

   

  If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D

   

  Best regards,
  Pete Laker

  

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

First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

New boy Muhammad romps to the top this week, with a monster score. And Anil topping the monthly's. great work every one!

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

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

#1 Muhammad Ehsan with 142 revisions.

#2 Recep YUKSEL - TAT with 85 revisions.

#3 Richard Mueller with 46 revisions.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

#4 Anil Avula with 38 revisions.

#5 Dan Christian with 36 revisions.

#6 Carsten Siemens with 33 revisions.

#7 M. Samara with 29 revisions.

#8 Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT with 26 revisions.

#9 Nonki Takahashi with 23 revisions.

#10 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 22 revisions.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

#1 Muhammad Ehsan with 62 articles.

#2 Recep YUKSEL - TAT with 60 articles.

#3 Richard Mueller with 35 articles.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

#4 Carsten Siemens with 25 articles.

#5 Dan Christian with 19 articles.

#6 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 12 articles.

#7 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 11 articles.

#8 Nonki Takahashi with 7 articles.

#9 Davut EREN - TAT with 6 articles.

#10 M.Ufuk TATLIDIL - TAT with 6 articles.

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

The article to have the most change this week was TechNet Gurus : Contributions pour les Mois d'Août et de Septembre 2014 (fr-FR), by Benoit Jester - MTFC

This week's reviser was Casteres.Romain

A fantastic effort by Benoit brings TechNet Gurus to the mainland! Well, France anyway. Thank you Benoit for your gallant efforts for TechNet Wiki, nous t'aimons! 

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is Windows 8.1 Sürümleri ve Özelliklerini Karsilastirma (tr-TR), by Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

This week's reviser was Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

This awesome piece of work from Mehmet compares the features of Windows 8.1 versions, taken from here. A great translation and format job Mehmet!

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

This week's most fiddled with article is Turkish Avengers Team Council Center, by Gokan Ozcifci. It was revised 14 times last week.

This week's revisers were Alper Yazgan - TAT, Nihat ALTINMAKAS, Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT, Muhammad Ehsan, Davut EREN - TAT & Recep YUKSEL - TAT

The Avengers strike again! More edits by team members, showing who does what and when :)

As that is a regular winner, this week's SECOND most fiddled with article is Predict Wine Quality with Azure Machine Learning, by Casteres.Romain. It was revised 13 times last week.

This week's revisers were Casteres.Romain & Benoit Jester - MTFC

What a fun article from Casteres, and a great subject! :D

This is definitely worth a read, or translate and read, for anyone interested in Azure Machine Learning.

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

The article to be updated by the most people this week is Turkish Avengers Team E-Books List (tr-TR), by Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

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

A new article from the Avengers (TAT) and an "acorn" no doubt destined for oak tree status :)  Good luck with this one, boys ;)

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

• Revision 6 of Turkish Avengers Team E-Books List (tr-TR) was saved by Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT just 2 minutes after Hasan Dimdik - TAT
• Revision 6 of PowerShell Web Administration Module was saved by Muhammad Ehsan just 2 minutes after FZB
  
  Congratulations to Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT and Muhammad Ehsan! Two winners on the two minute mark! nice going.
  Also in the top ten are:
  
  
• Revision 115 of Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR) was saved by Davut EREN - TAT just 5 minutes after Alican Dökmen - TAT
• Revision 4 of Turkish Avengers Team E-Books List (tr-TR) was saved by Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT just 7 minutes after Davut EREN - TAT
• Revision 1 of SharePoint delay activity (workflow) not working was saved by Maheshkumar S Tiwari just 21 minutes after Anil Avula
• Revision 6 of Group Policy Architecture(tr-TR) was saved by Muhammad Ehsan just 22 minutes after Davut EREN - TAT
• Revision 4 of How to Calculate Manager Reference Value from PeopleSoft SQL View was saved by Muhammad Ehsan just 24 minutes after Carsten Siemens
• Revision 1 of Object not found when running the command “set-spserviceapplicationpool” for web application was saved by Maheshkumar S Tiwari just 29 minutes after Anil Avula
• Revision 114 of Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR) was saved by Alican Dökmen - TAT just 29 minutes after Ugur Demir - TAT
• Revision 2 of How to Restore a Deleted Site in SharePoint 2013 or Configure Re-cycle Bin in SharePoint was saved by Muhammad Ehsan just 31 minutes after Maheshkumar S Tiwari

Winner Summary   Let's celebrate our winners!

Below are a few statistics on this week's award winners.

Most Revisions Award Winner
The reviser is the winner of this category.

Muhammad Ehsan

Muhammad Ehsan has won 10 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 09 Aug '14: Most Revisions Award
• 09 Aug '14: Most Articles Updated Award
• 09 Aug '14: Ninja Edit Award for technet.microsof
• 15 Jun '14: Most Revisions Award
• 15 Jun '14: Most Articles Updated Award

Muhammad Ehsan has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Muhammad Ehsan's profile page

Most Articles Award Winner
The reviser is the winner of this category.

Muhammad Ehsan

Muhammad Ehsan is mentioned above.

Most Updated Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes.

Benoit Jester - MTFC

Benoit Jester - MTFC has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 26 Aug '13: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-beno-238-t-jester-a-new-french-contributor

Benoit Jester - MTFC has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

• In Oct '13: SharePoint 2013 : Upgrade a Site Collection (UI and PowerShell)
• In Nov '13: SharePoint 2013: Search - User Segmentation
• In Dec '13: SharePoint 2013 - Design Manager : Use of Display Templates

Benoit Jester - MTFC has won 45 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 09 Aug '14: Most Updated Article Award for technet-gurus-contributions-pour-les-mois-d-aout-et-de-septembre-2014-fr-fr
• 15 Jun '14: Most Revisions Award
• 15 Jun '14: Most Articles Updated Award
• 07 Jun '14: Most Updated Article Award for office-365-nouveaux-entetes-pour-les-bibliotheques-de-documents-fr-fr
• 31 May '14: Most Articles Updated Award

Benoit Jester - MTFC has not yet had any featured articles (see below)

Benoit Jester - MTFC's profile page

Longest Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long!

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 20 May '13: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-mehmet-parlakyigit

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT has won 13 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 09 Aug '14: Longest Article Award for windows-8-1-surumleri-ve-ozelliklerini-karslastrma-tr-tr
• 09 Aug '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-e-books-list-tr-tr
• 15 Mar '14: Most Revisions Award
• 15 Mar '14: Most Articles Updated Award
• 15 Mar '14: Most Updated Article Award for windows-server-2012-r2-wsus-4-0-kurulumu-ve-yaplandrma-bolum-1-tr-tr

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT's profile page

Most Revised Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the most

Gokan Ozcifci

Gokan Ozcifci has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 12 Nov '12: interview-with-the-sharepoint-pirate-gokan-ozcifci-microsoft-partner-and-mcc-sharepoint-2013-amp-iis-7-5
• 08 Jul '13: interview-with-wiki-ninjas-bruno-lewin-philippe-yagmoth-and-gokan-ozcifci-all-about-the-microsoft-technical-french-contributor-mtfc-awards
• 08 Oct '13: monday-interview-with-the-youngest-sharepoint-mvp-in-belgium

Gokan Ozcifci has won 55 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 09 Aug '14: Most Revised Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-council-center
• 26 Jul '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-council-center
• 12 Jul '14: Most Updated Article Award for sharepoint-2013-how-to-configure-sql-server-reporting-services-2012
• 07 Jun '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-wiki-ninjas-blog-authoring-schedule-tr-tr
• 10 May '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-council-center

Gokan Ozcifci has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Gokan Ozcifci's profile page

Casteres.Romain

This is the first Top Contributors award for Casteres.Romain on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Casteres.Romain!

Casteres.Romain has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Casteres.Romain's profile page

Most Popular Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention.

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT is mentioned above.

Ninja Edit Award Winner
The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest!

Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT

Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT has won 4 previous Top Contributor Awards:

• 09 Aug '14: Ninja Edit Award for technet.microsof
• 22 Feb '14: Most Revisions Award
• 22 Feb '14: Most Articles Updated Award
• 25 Jan '14: Ninja Edit Award for exchange-server-2013-kurulum-ve-konfigurasyonu-bolum-3-tr-tr

Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT's profile page

Muhammad Ehsan

Muhammad Ehsan is mentioned above.

What a great week of reads! Keep the content coming, we want more!! :D

Best regards,
Pete Laker (XAML guy)

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Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday.

Gamification is nowadays an important part of most apps you can find on the different platforms. We all know gamification to some level. If we want we can also use it as a developer in Visual Studio. But how can we integrate it in one of our Windows Store apps? pumpkinszwan has created an article called "Add Achievements to your Windows 8.1 Store Game" which shows how we can integrate it in five simple steps, starting with a short overview and a lot of code snippets.

So, just a few words left to say: Happy coding!

- German Ninja Jan (Twitter, Blog, Profile)

Hello Community!

Today is Sunday, the final surprise of the week!

Separated for you, a collection of articles about the the powerful ALM tool from Microsoft, the Test Manager.

"Using Microsoft Test Manager you can run manual tests, exploratory test sessions, and automated tests from a test plan. When you run any of these tests from your test plan, you can save your test results into the team project for your Team Foundation Server. You can view the progress of your automated tests, exploratory test sessions, and manual tests from your test plan.

You can run automated tests from Visual Studio or from the command line. You can also run tests by using Team Foundation Build. Test results are created every time that you run a group of tests."

The TechNet Wiki Portal has the largest collection of articles about Microsoft Test Manager!!!

• Automated Tests
• Explory Tests Functional Tests
• Automatic Log Collection
• Integration with VMM and Lab Management

See:

English: Articles - Microsoft Test Manager

Portuguese: Artigos - Microsoft Test Manager

ALM Summit Brazil

And you who is in Brazil and want to know more about ALM, do not miss the 29th and August 30th at Microsoft's headquarters in São Paulo, ALM Summit Brazil event! With Microsoft employees, community members Technet Wiki, especilistas, MVP, do not miss!

Information click here.

Do not miss the TechNet Wiki community will be there, even I will have the honor of giving a talk on DevOps!!!!

Alan Carlos
Technet Wiki Ninja Brazil

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

First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

All hail Richard Mueller, for he is the chart leader once again this week, and a deserved winner. Richard works tirelessly for TechNet Wiki and will go down in history as one of the true greats of the community. Anil now topping both charts with his work across the WIki, and more lately the forums.

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

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

#1 Richard Mueller with 117 revisions.

#2 Mr X with 46 revisions.

#3 Carsten Siemens with 44 revisions.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

#4 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 38 revisions.

#5 Ed Price - MSFT with 37 revisions.

#6 Anil Avula with 34 revisions.

#7 Durval Ramos with 31 revisions.

#8 Nonki Takahashi with 29 revisions.

#9 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 26 revisions.

#10 pituach with 23 revisions.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

#1 Richard Mueller with 89 articles.

#2 Carsten Siemens with 28 articles.

#3 Maheshkumar S Tiwari with 22 articles.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

#4 Fernando Lugão Veltem with 21 articles.

#5 Durval Ramos with 16 articles.

#6 Ed Price - MSFT with 11 articles.

#7 Mr X with 9 articles.

#8 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 8 articles.

#9 Nonki Takahashi with 8 articles.

#10 Anil Avula with 7 articles.

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

The article to have the most change this week was How to execute a SQL query in Powershell (GUI), by Brian Nadjiwon

This week's reviser was Brian Nadjiwon

Not just a big dump of code, but some very useful information that bridges an important and very useful feature. Thanks Brian.

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is Official Microsoft Twitter Accounts, by Rich Prescott

This week's reviser was Craig Lussier

Wow and wow again! Boooookmaaaark Nooooowwww!

Gotta love this list. Thanks for the updates Craig, and may this document bring tears of joy to all those that look upon it.

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

This week's most fiddled with article is TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014, by XAML guy. It was revised 37 times last week.

This week's revisers were XAML guy, Magnus (MM8), Steef-Jan Wiggers, Hasham Niaz, Brian Nadjiwon, FZB, Maheshkumar S Tiwari, Scott M Eastin, Durval Ramos, pituach, Mr X, Nonki Takahashi, SubramanyamRaju.B, Ed Price - MSFT, Shanky_621, Naomi N, Vivek Jagga, Jaliya Udagedara, Eyal Shilony & saramgsilva

Another strong performance from the community in the final week of July's competition, with some of our greatest authors and also some new names, all giving us gifts of knowledge.

As Guru often wins, this week's SECOND most fiddled with article is Wiki: Glossary of Technology Acronyms, by Richard Mueller. It was revised 26 times last week.

This week's revisers were Richard Mueller, matt_will_fix_it & FZB

Another keeper! This is an essential bookmark for anyone coming into the profession. Great work folks!

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: July 2014, by XAML guy

Yey for Gurus, consistently showing how the community comes together over TechNet.

This week's revisers were XAML guy, Magnus (MM8), Steef-Jan Wiggers, Hasham Niaz, Brian Nadjiwon, FZB, Maheshkumar S Tiwari, Scott M Eastin, Durval Ramos, pituach, Mr X, Nonki Takahashi, SubramanyamRaju.B, Ed Price - MSFT, Shanky_621, Naomi N, Vivek Jagga, Jaliya Udagedara, Eyal Shilony & saramgsilva

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

Avenging is their name and awesomeness is their game. Bow before the mighty TATs, for they rally know their stuff!

This week's revisers were Alper Yazgan - TAT, Recep YUKSEL - TAT, Hasan Dimdik - TAT & Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

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

We just want to wax lyrical about TNW, because we love it. It has been there when we needed it, now we are there for it in return :)

This week's revisers were Ed Price - MSFT, Maheshkumar S Tiwari, Payman Biukaghazadeh & Steef-Jan Wiggers

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

• Revision 6 of 500 Internal Server Error and on TMG/ISA you will see the event which mentions error 0x80090349 with certificate was saved by Nitin Zambre just 1 minute after Kollipara.Sri.Raghu.Dheeraj
  
  Congratulations to Nitin Zambre! A great win indeed!
  Also in the top ten are:
  
  
• Revision 71 of TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014 was saved by Magnus (MM8) just 3 minutes after Steef-Jan Wiggers
• Revision 60 of TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014 was saved by Mr X just 4 minutes after Nonki Takahashi
• Revision 226 of Wiki: Glossary of Technology Acronyms was saved by FZB just 5 minutes after Richard Mueller
• Revision 64 of TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014 was saved by Durval Ramos just 6 minutes after pituach
• Revision 4 of 500 Internal Server Error and on TMG/ISA you will see the event which mentions error 0x80090349 with certificate was saved by Kollipara.Sri.Raghu.Dheeraj just 6 minutes after Nitin Zambre
• Revision 228 of Wiki: Glossary of Technology Acronyms was saved by Richard Mueller just 7 minutes after FZB
• Revision 59 of TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014 was saved by Nonki Takahashi just 16 minutes after SubramanyamRaju.B
• Revision 49 of TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014 was saved by Mr X just 19 minutes after Naomi N
• Revision 52 of TechNet Guru Contributions: July 2014 was saved by Nonki Takahashi just 26 minutes after Shanky_621

Winner Summary   Let's celebrate our winners!

Below are a few statistics on this week's award winners.

Most Revisions Award Winner
The reviser is the winner of this category.

Richard Mueller

Richard Mueller has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 17 Sep '12: monday-interview-with-a-mvp-richard-mueller
• 17 Jun '13: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-richard-and-ed

Richard Mueller has won 81 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 02 Aug '14: Most Revisions Award
• 02 Aug '14: Most Articles Updated Award
• 02 Aug '14: Most Revised Article Award for wiki-glossary-of-technology-acronyms
• 26 Jul '14: Most Revisions Award
• 26 Jul '14: Most Articles Updated Award

Richard Mueller has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Richard Mueller's profile page

Most Articles Award Winner
The reviser is the winner of this category.

Richard Mueller

Richard Mueller is mentioned above.

Most Updated Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes.

Brian Nadjiwon

This is the first Top Contributors award for Brian Nadjiwon on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Brian Nadjiwon!

Brian Nadjiwon has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Brian Nadjiwon's profile page

Longest Article Award Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long!

Rich Prescott

Rich Prescott has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

• 27 Jan '12: Official Microsoft Team Blogs

Rich Prescott has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 09 Jan '12: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-rich-prescott-mcc-powershell-amp-windows-engineering

This is the first Top Contributors award for Rich Prescott on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Rich Prescott!

Rich Prescott has not yet had any TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Rich Prescott's profile page

Most Revised Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the most

XAML guy

XAML guy has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

• 11 Nov '12: TechNet Wiki Widget (Windows 8)
• 23 Nov '12: Blackboard Design Pattern: A Practical Example - Radar Defense System

XAML guy has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 23 Oct '12: interview-with-2-wikininjas-peter-laker-amp-ana-paula-de-almeida
• 28 Oct '13: interview-with-quot-xaml-guy-quot

XAML guy has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

• In Jun '13: WPF: How to manage available/selected lists. Simple examples. MVVM and Code behind
• In Jul '13: WPF Data, Item and Control Templates - Minimum code, maximum awesome
• In Aug '13: Best ComboBox Tutorial Ever
• In Oct '13: WPF: Watermarked TextBox and PasswordBox

XAML guy has won 55 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 02 Aug '14: Most Revised Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-july-2014
• 02 Aug '14: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-july-2014
• 26 Jul '14: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-july-2014
• 22 Jun '14: Most Revised Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-for-june-2014
• 15 Jun '14: Most Popular Article Award for technet-guru-contributions-for-june-2014

XAML guy's profile page

Richard Mueller

Richard Mueller is mentioned above.

Most Popular Article Winner
The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention.

XAML guy

XAML guy is mentioned above.

Gokan Ozcifci

Gokan Ozcifci has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 12 Nov '12: interview-with-the-sharepoint-pirate-gokan-ozcifci-microsoft-partner-and-mcc-sharepoint-2013-amp-iis-7-5
• 08 Jul '13: interview-with-wiki-ninjas-bruno-lewin-philippe-yagmoth-and-gokan-ozcifci-all-about-the-microsoft-technical-french-contributor-mtfc-awards
• 08 Oct '13: monday-interview-with-the-youngest-sharepoint-mvp-in-belgium

Gokan Ozcifci has won 55 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 02 Aug '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-council-center
• 26 Jul '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-council-center
• 12 Jul '14: Most Updated Article Award for sharepoint-2013-how-to-configure-sql-server-reporting-services-2012
• 07 Jun '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-wiki-ninjas-blog-authoring-schedule-tr-tr
• 10 May '14: Most Popular Article Award for turkish-avengers-team-council-center

Gokan Ozcifci has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Gokan Ozcifci's profile page

Ed Price - MSFT

Ed Price - MSFT has featured articles on TechNet Wiki!

• 01 Jun '11: Power Pivot Overview
• 27 Oct '11: DAX Resource Center
• 03 Nov '11: BizTalk Server 2010
• 17 Nov '11: Feature Requests for TechNet and MSDN Profiles and Social Platform Tools
• 20 Dec '11: How to Become an MVP or MCC
• 07 Feb '12: HomeGroup and IPv6 Troubleshooting Guide
• 12 Mar '12: SharePoint: Integrate Skype and Facebook Features
• 09 May '12: How to Become an MSDN or TechNet Forum Moderator/Answerer
• 25 May '12: How to Get Hyperlinks in Your Microsoft Forum Signature
• 20 Jul '12: The Different Roles in MSDN and TechNet Forums
• 28 Aug '12: How to Ban or Report a TechNet or MSDN User Account
• 12 Oct '12: Official Microsoft Forum Sites
• 11 Jan '13: Forum OP Tips: How to Ask a Question Efficiently in a TechNet/MSDN Forum
• 22 Jan '13: Wiki: User Experience Guidelines
• 11 Feb '13: TechNet Wiki: Technology Tags
• 05 Mar '13: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9): How to Set a Popup Window to Open in a New Tab
• 08 Jun '13: MSDN and TechNet Forum Support
• 21 Oct '13: Wiki: How to Report a TechNet Wiki Performance Issue
• 16 Dec '13: Interview with a Wiki Ninja

Ed Price - MSFT has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki!

• 05 Dec '11: the-non-invisible-ninja-ed-price
• 30 Jul '12: interview-with-ed-price
• 17 Jun '13: interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-richard-and-ed

Ed Price - MSFT has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles:

• In Apr '14: Power BI Portal

Ed Price - MSFT has won 106 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below:

• 02 Aug '14: Most Popular Article Award for wiki-ninjas-blog-authoring-schedule
• 26 Jul '14: Most Popular Article Award for wiki-ninjas-blog-authoring-schedule
• 05 Jul '14: Most Revisions Award
• 05 Jul '14: Most Articles Updated Award
• 05 Jul '14: Most Revised Article Award for wiki-ninjas-blog-authoring-schedule

Ed Price - MSFT's profile page

Ninja Edit Award Winner
The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest!

Nitin Zambre

This is the first Top Contributors award for Nitin Zambre on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Nitin Zambre!

Nitin Zambre has not yet had any featured articles, interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below)

Nitin Zambre's profile page

What a bunch of heroes and legends we have this week!

Congratulations everyone above for giving us such rich knowledge.

Join us next week for more sensational content!

Best regards,
Pete Laker (XAML guy)

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