Special thanks to Microsoft MVP Julio Iglesias for starting and running the Spanish Wiki Ninjas Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TechNetWikiNinjasES/

And he also started this great TechNet Wiki article to list our fantastic Spanish articles on TechNet Wiki:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28435.articulos-technet-wiki-en-espanol-es-es.aspx

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This group joins our Persian group:

TechNet Wiki Ninjas - New Persian / Farsi Facebook group!!

Our Turkish group:

TechNet Wiki Ninjas - New Turkish Facebook group!!

And our English group:

The TechNet Wiki Ninjas are Now on Facebook!

What's next? Portuguese? Italian? Time will tell!

   - Ninja Ed

Recently, Brazil and Turkey have performed great feats for TechNet and MSDN Communities.

We can see a special organization, the high knowledge on Products and Services and especially union to share Technical Articles by Turkish group.

The "Turkish Avengers Team" (TAT) !!!

Now you may be thinking: "God, Durval went crazy !!! He should be writing from Portuguese Community, looks like he scored a goal against Brazil team"...

No my friends, keep calm because I'm fine.

Let's be realistic to honor this team. They appear monthly in front of us always after read Progress in each Language, published by Tomoaki.

This growth in Portuguese and Turkish articles was very evident in his last post.

They are doing an amazing work, knowledge sharing quality to any people who speak Turkish language anywhere in the world.

YES!!! We also have Turkish citizens and people who admire Turkish Culture in several countries, including Brazil.

And for this reason and many others...

All standing ovation for Turkish Community !!!

This awesome picture where I'm cheering to TAT members was inspired by creativity of my friends Gokan Ozcifci and Davut Eren.

The important thing that all Communities, no matter the country or language have the ability to win a lot of games.

Believe it !

See you soon here !

Brazilian Wiki Ninja Durval

Welcome to another Interview with a Wiki Ninja! This one is 5 months in the making!

Chen V is an MVP in PowerShell!

TechNet Wiki Stats:

• 153 Articles
• 773 Edits
• 366 Comments

Let's get to the interview...

Who are you?

Myself: Chendrayan Venkatesan; people call me Chen V. I work as SharePoint 2010 Admin and Data Center Support Engineer.
I am interested in Microsoft Technologies like SharePoint , Exchange , LYNC - Indeed PowerShell.

I share my learning experience in https://www.facebook.com/groups/148977435297832/ and in https://www.facebook.com/pages/PowerShell-Support/1403945703187790?ref=bookmarks

Where are you, and what do you do?

I am currently residing in Nijmegen, Netherlands. I support SharePoint Applications and Data Center Operations.

 

What are your specialty technologies?

SharePoint 2010
Windows Server Administration
Data Center.

 

What are your big projects right now?

At present I am engaged in these Projects:

• Aligning Data Center as per the Industry standard.
• Converting old automation process using PowerShell.
• Re-writing the old PowerShell Scripts in newer versions.
• Re-aligning Active Directory User Management using PowerShell.

 
What is TechNet Wiki for? Who is it for?

TechNet Wiki is to Share and explore the technology, this is common for all IT Professionals.

What do you do with TechNet Wiki, and how does that fit into the rest of your job?

I write TechNet Wiki to share my learning and experince. It helps me to get some best practise in the Industry.
One portal to GET what we need.

What is it about TechNet Wiki that interests you?

Sharing is Caring. Learning, Sharing, Collaborating and exploring the technologies under one roof.
Multi Language Portal which reaches people across geography.



What are your favorite Wiki articles you’ve contributed?

My Favourites Wiki Articles are

Solved My Client Requirement:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18300.export-sharepoint-user-profile-information-values-in-csv-or-html.aspx

Nerve Racking Fix in SharePoint 2010
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18293.sharepoint-2010-publishing-feature-activation.aspx

All my wiki's are my favourite because I pick the cases from my day-to-day operations.
  
  
What is your favorite Wiki article with a Top 5?

[Something thatI wrote while travelling]
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22471.powershell-tricks-get-random-numbers-and-sum-up-the-values.aspx

 

What are the top 5 Wiki articles or areas that need more attention and development?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22471.powershell-tricks-get-random-numbers-and-sum-up-the-values.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20943.printer-health-check-up-report.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20939.windows-7-projector-settings-windows-p.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22782.microsoft-exchange-online-how-to-recover-active-sync-device-password.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23642.how-to-check-your-powershell-preferences.aspx

  
What could we do differently on TechNet Wiki?

Build a Windows Mobile App for Wiki and Gallery Forum including the below features
    1. Single Sign On
    2. Filters
    3. Search
    4. Points and Rewards

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

The below people impressed me by translating, correcting, and updating my wiki's:

• Benoit Jester - MTFC http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/422831/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx
• Peter Geelen -MSFT http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/2659/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx
• Durval Ramos - Affiliation Partner http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/durval%20ramos/?ws=leaderboard
• Ed Price - MSFT http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/Ed%20Price%20-%20MSFT
• Naomi N - Microsoft Partner  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/30759/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx

   

Do you have any tips for new Wiki authors?

Try to Share at least 1 Wiki per day. No matters if something is wrong, people around the world will correct us. Learning is a Continuos Process so we can't stop.
 

Please join me in thanking Chen V for providing so much great content on TechNet Wiki!

And remember to Wiki while you work (and after you work)!!!

   - Ninja Ed

We continue our journey with geolocation services, but first we do small refresher of what we have discussed so far.

We started with the first article, which addressed in detail everything about the Geolocator. We've seen how geolocation services can be enabled to receive data on the user's location and how to get the latitude and longitude coordinates.

Subsequently, we delved into the ReverseGeocodeQuery class to convert latitude and longitude coordinates in an address, for those who have not had a chance to read its content it can be done by accessing this link .

In the next article, we have explored how the GeocodeQuery class, similar to the ReverseGeocodeQuery of the same, with the difference that in this case, we're going to convert an address into latitude and longitude coordinates.
Here's the link for those who haven't had the opportunity to read it.

After this brief introduction, we continue our journey and we will study ways to operate the control's main Nokia Maps available since version 8.0 for Windows Phone in three different articles.

In this we will study ways of functioning of the control.

Navigate to this article http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28572.part-one-the-nokia-maps-on-windows-phone-8.aspx

Happy reading, I hope it will be useful to all those who use the Nokia Maps control for your application :)

Let's celebrate our Curah! Week...Featuring a bit about Curah! articles on TechNet Wiki and how this amazing tool helps us to share our knowledge, improving overall performance level to find contents easily.

First, here were our previous blog posts for this celebrations:

• Celebrate Curah's Birthday!
• Interview with the Curah Ninja Team - celebrating 1 year Curah!

It seems like it was only yesterday...

My first impression was: What do you mean by that???

So I thought: Wow!!! A solution for aggregating content from different sites on the same topic.

This will change the way search !!!

The most awesome is their ease of use and possibilities for sharing in social networks.

Quickly, a powerful source of information about an author or a topic can be shared !!!

A few days after Jan (Horizon_Net) published post: 

TNWiki Article Spotlight - Curah

The TechNet Wiki did not stopped and we soon began using Curah! to share articles.

Look! One of the first Curah articles on TechNet Wiki been translated into 17 languages (yes, my friends ... "seventeen") !!!

See this article:

What is Curah!, and how do I get started?

So, many other articles about Curah! have been written by Community members.

In fact, the amount articles on different technologies was so great that we should create a new tag:

Curated in Curah!

 You can also find the several articles of your favorite Technology joining the tags (see e.g.):

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/Curated+in+Curah/SQL+Server/default.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/Curated+in+Curah/SharePoint/default.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/Curated+in+Curah/PowerShell/default.aspx

and many others ...

Well, of course the best part is seeing how Curah! takes care of our precious "articles" ...

See a quick search about our TechNet Wiki.

Have fun using Curah! today and in coming years !!!

Happy birthday Curah!

See you soon here !

Brazilian Wiki Ninja Durval