Welcome to the Tuesday Article Spotlight!

Check out this SharePoint Guru Gold Medal winning article from Geetanjali Arora:

• Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App

These comments from the judges help express our amazement about this article (Margriet and Gokan are both SharePoint MVPs)...

SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - August 2014

Geetanjali Arora

Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App

Margriet Bruggeman: "Enormous detailed article!! A good step by step guide!"  Ed Price: "Great article with visual imagery! Great troubleshooting steps!"  GO: "WOW! Great article. This article has the 3 "C" in one. Clear, clever and clean. Well done!"

I do love how this article explains everything in depth. Here is the introduction from the article...

Introduction

One of the new features of SharePoint 2013 is the SharePoint App Model. Similar to the windows phone marketplace, we now have a SharePoint Store available where we can simply search for apps and download them on our SharePoint site.  In SharePoint 2013, everything is an app, be it lists or libraries.



If you have a look at the below screenshot, you will see an option to “add an app” in the View All Site Content section.

Now, if you click on this “add an app” link, you get the below screen where you get available templates for your app like document library, custom list, picture library etc. that you can add as an app.

I recommend you read the rest of the article here to learn all the details:

• Step by Step Guide to Configure Environment for Creating your first SharePoint Hosted App

Enjoy! And remember to jump on in and join Geetanjali on the Wiki! The Wiki is warm!

   - Ninja Ed

Welcome to our Tuesday article spotlight! Today's featured TechNet Wiki article is from Nonki Takahashi: 

Small Basic: International Resources  

There are 23 languages of resources here. Here is a great chart from Nonki to show you what's available:

You think this list is amazing? Check out the actual article!

Please see a complete list and description of these resources here:

Small Basic: International Resources  

Thanks again to Nonki for a fantastic article!

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm!

   - Ninja Ed

Today's featured article is our Small Basic Guru Gold Medal winner from August...

Small Basic Technical Guru - August 2014

At first, you might think, how to use a forum? REALLY???

Yes!!! And this article is awesome! Here's the intro...

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Introduction

This article illustrates how to use Small Basic forum in MSDN forums.

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Read the rest here:

• Small Basic: How to Use MSDN Forum

Here's why I love this article... there is so much detail here, and yes, some great specifics about the Small Basic forum community!

This is a perfect and shining example of what we could and should have for all our forum communities! What an amazing resource!

Thank you Nonki for showing us how it's done!

   - Ninja Ed

Here is our Wiki Guru Gold Medal winner from August!

Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - August 2014

You could lose yourself in this article! It's so in depth and just keeps going!

And the great thing is that all these resources are on TechNet Wiki! This is amazing!

It starts with some official marketing resources. Check out the introduction...

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Introduction

Office 365 is familiar Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint include new features that help you create, communicate and work even more efficiently from virtually anywhere.

In addition to updating the traditional Office suites, we’ve developed brand new subscription versions of Office for home and school, specifically designed for the way you use Office today. Each of these subscriptions include the latest versions of Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, for PC, Mac, Windows tablets and iPads.

Today you can choose Office 365 on five plans:

• For Users (or Home): Home **, Personal**  and OnLine *;
• For Business, divided by categories:
  • Small: Small Business  and Small Business Premium **;
  • Midsize: Midsize Business **;
  • Enterprise: Hosted Email , Enterprise E1 , Enterprise E3 ** and Enterprise E4 **
• For Education: Education A2*, Education A3 ** and Education A4 **
• For Government : Exchange Online(Plan 1), Exchange Online(Plan 2), Plan "E1" for Government and Plan "E3" for Government**
• For Nonprofits : Small Business***, Small Business Premium **, Enterprise E1*** and Enterprise E3 **

For abbreviation the term "Office 365" is used "O365".

This article is a list of all articles about Office 365 on TechNet Wiki. They can also be found by Office365 tag.

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Read the rest here:

Office 365 Portal

Join me in thanking Durval for this fantastic resource!

   - Ninja Ed

This is piggybacking on Peter Geelen's hilariously sarcastic blog post from last week...

Wednesday - Wiki Life: 10 ways to become the most hated Wiki ninja on the planet

Today let's discuss the length and quality of articles.

It won't benefit you if your articles aren't long or high quality.

You might be tempted to write shorter articles because you can get more done. But there's no good benefit in doing that. All that does is pad your Wiki article stat in your profile.

Instead, it would be better to combine some of those smaller articles that are related and publish them as a far more detailed and useful article!

Or, it might be good also to go more in depth on the topic, explain it thoroughly, explain that context and the problems that lead up to your solution. Take some screenshots and build it out!

Scripts

Also, if you've got a nice script, then you can put the script on TechNet or MSDN Gallery and link to it from the Wiki. The Wiki can break down the code and explain each piece. And then it can explain how the script fits into the larger solution!

Videos

If you've got a video, then go ahead and embed it on TechNet Wiki. BUT... you should add to it... explain the steps, write out the transcript, and compliment the video with resource links and references!

Short Articles Won't...

Here's what writing short articles won't do:

1. It won't help with your community reputation. You'll become known for trying to build up your stats or get more views on your video, rather than being known for great content!
2. It won't help on your road to MVP or a new job. I've seen people make MVP and get jobs for writing as few as three articles on the Wiki! Make everything you do amazing!

In short, there's no benefit for going for quick articles.

It's Worth It

It takes a little longer to write more detailed articles, but it's helpful to everyone and definitely worth it!

To see some shining examples of depth and quality, please check out our TechNet Guru gold medal winners (and often other winners and contributors). Here are our latest awards:

The Microsoft TechNet Guru Awards! (August 2014)

Special thanks go out to all the contributors who hold us to a higher standard and level of quality with your amazing articles! You impact the community every day, and we're grateful for your passion!

   - Ninja Ed