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All the votes (for December) are [finally] in!
Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, August 2019 !!!!
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. 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.
| ASP.NET Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Syed Shanu | All you need to know on Blazor app and create ASP.NET Core Blazor CRUD App using VS 2019, .NET Core 3 , Web API | Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice step by step Explanation.!!!" Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "A great resource, Shanu! You could make it a boilerplate sample/template for others to use too. (y)" Sabah Shariq: "Nice getting started article. Good work!" Jeff Fritz: "English grammar needs some help" |
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Shweta Lodha | Globally configuring values for JSON Serializer in ASP.NET Core 3.1 | Jeff Fritz: "A little too informal for the content level we'd like for the Technet Wiki" Sabah Shariq: "Thanks for sharing this approach." |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Priyaranjan KS | SharePoint Server 2019: Setting up Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP2 | Lasse Wedø: "Information is ok, but less images of the wizard, and more explanation of the steps and choices would make this article better" Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome Article. Well formatted and interesting topic. It is great Step-By-Step guide which is very simple to follow. Advanced users might ask for a bit more information, which can be added as links in the "See Also" section and/or in the text. Well done! Great work" |
| Microsoft 365 /O365 Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Habibur Rahaman | SharePoint Online: Hub and connected sites report using PnP PowerShell and Office 365 URL | Dileepa Kariyawasam: "Great article and well structured." Mikael Svenson: "I would not use username/pw as a PnP login sample as more and more tenants are blocking classic auth using username/pw. For automation using ADAL is preffered. Also iterating all sites in a large tenant can be time consuming. Take a look at my post https://www.techmikael.com/2018/04/working-with-hub-sites-and-search-api.html for using search api." Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article, valuable and well-organized content. it would be great to add related articles from the TechNet community in See Also besides the your own external URLs" |
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Priyaranjan KS | Implementing a Custom AI Builder Model in Power Automate to identify objects by making use of Object Detection Model | Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article, valuable and well-organized content." Dileepa Kariyawasam: "Very Informative article." Mikael Svenson: "Nice article, and you could perhaps add some references to the upcoming Project Cortex coming in SPO which utilizes the same functionality. https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/project-cortex-microsoft-365/" Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: "" |
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Nanddeep Nachan | Execute Power Automate workflow from SPFx Solution | Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article, valuable and well-organized content." Dileepa Kariyawasam: "Useful article with clear details." Mikael Svenson: "Although a specific sample, there are numerous samples on how to call REST from SPFx. Unsure of the value." |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Subhro Majumder | Azure Disk Encryption : Configure for Azure Windows VMs | Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Great post, Subhro, the use of screenshots and other resources was just on spot." Tomaž Kaštrun: "Creating and configuring Azure disk encryption. Very great start on "how-to" and "where-to"." Eric Berg: "thanks" Lasse Wedø: "A good article" |
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George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Azure REST API: How To Create Bearer Token | Eric Berg: "thank you!" Tomaž Kaštrun: "How to create an API bearer Token in Azure using Azure CLI." |
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George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | Azure Databases: SQL vs NoSQL | Lasse Wedø: "Useful information, good writeup" Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Good depiction of the concepts!" Robert Smit: "" Tomaž Kaštrun: "A short but effective overview of Azure offerings on SQL databases." Eric Berg: "thank you!" |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Priyaranjan KS | Build Chat bots with Zero Code using Microsoft Power Virtual Agent | SYEDSHANU: "Useful post with very detailed explanation Priyarajan,Thank you for sharing." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article! Very hard to rank which article is better since we have two great articles in the same category. If I could I would put both in the first place. This article is well written and well formatted. Moreover, the content was new for me and I learned from it. Thanks. Great work!" |
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Suthahar Jegatheesan | Xamarin Mobile Application: Prevent memory leak and Profiling | Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article! Great work, well formatted and well written. "memory leak" is a huge issue which a lot of new developers forget to think about as they use more and more power machines. I like the "un-related" images in the article which add some color. The article look invite readers and the content keep them read to end." SYEDSHANU: "Nice getting started article for Xamarin ,But make sure as the images you have used all can be freely post in article ?" |
| SharePoint Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Priyaranjan KS | Working with SharePoint Framework Application Customizers to interact with Azure SQL Data using Azure Functions as the middle-ware | Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Well done. Great Wiki structure. Congratulations." John Naguib: "Thanks for the topic, looks nice" Mikael Svenson: "You could pull out the name of the user directly using this.context.pageContext.user.displayName or this.context.pageContext.user.loginName, so unneeded REST call." Mohamed El-Qassas: "Awesome article as usual! valuable and well-organized content! I love it!" |
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Habibur Rahaman | SharePoint Layouts path URLs: Quick References | Mohamed El-Qassas: "Great article, valuable and well-organized content! keep it up." Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Excellent layout content. Very detailed. Congratulations on your contribution to the community." John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for sharing, good work" Mikael Svenson: "Although the summary at the top of why you need this feature is ok, it would be beneficial per URL to state when this is not accessible, or perhaps why. Some of them might not be accessible due to being deprecated (at least for SPO)" |
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Nanddeep Nachan | Govern Third-Party Service and SPFx Web Parts Availability in SharePoint Online | Mikael Svenson: "Very good writeup on the control options of web parts!" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Simple and valuable article! Thanks for sharing!" Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Excellent technical details. The community appreciates your contribution." John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for sharing, good work" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Priyaranjan KS | Getting started with Q & A Visualization in Power BI | Rajat Jaiswal: "Good one." Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Good visualizations and a neat write-up." Tomaž Kaštrun: "Tutorial on how to get started with Q&A visual in Power BI. Step by step guide." PT: "Good article. Providing the sample report for download was a good idea. Thanks" Visakh16: "A good article giving beginner level explanation of how to use new Q n A visualization available in Power BI. The usage of images are great. Could have added the explanation in more detail to improve the clarity of the steps." |
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AV111 | scale-out deployment is not supported in this edition of reporting services for SSRS | Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "It could have been written better." Tomaž Kaštrun: "Short guide on how to delete encryption content in the report server database." PT: "Good topic. Could use more content. Perhaps describe scenario where this situation could happen and then resolve the problem." Visakh16: "Very short article giving details on specific issue on SSRS. Looks more like a quick reference blog. Doesn't fit to be a wiki article in the current format." |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos | SQL Server: Reset SA Password | Tomaž Kaštrun: "The situation when/where you forgot the SA account password and this is an easy explanation on how to reset the SA account password. Very simple and efficient." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Thanks for sharing. The topic is very important and has value, but the post is not well formatted and does not cover the topic. Highly recommend to check the following document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/sqlman/tips-tricks-you-have-lost-access-to-sql-server-now-what" |
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Priyaranjan KS | Import Flat File Structure Data to SQL Server using Azure Data Studio | Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "A great simple Step-By-Step guide." Tomaž Kaštrun: "Step by step guide on how to import csv/flat file into your SQL Server database using Azure Data Studio (with advanced SQL Server Import Plugin)." |
| System Center Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Leon Laude | SCOM Troubleshooting: Windows Agent installation | Kia Zhi Tang: "Another a good troubleshooting knowledge contribution to help others in the community. Thank you." Adam Fowler: "Lot of details around troubleshooting this scenario, will help anyone that runs into this problem" |
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Dujon Walsham | SCCM/MEMCM - Windows 10 Feature Update Rollouts via Application Deployment | Kia Zhi Tang: "This is a good configuration walkthrough contribution. Thank you for sharing." Adam Fowler: "Clear explanation of a scenario everyone should need to know about" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Priyaranjan KS | SQL Server 2019 : Import Data from CSV in Azure Blob Storage using T-SQL and Polybase | Diederik Krols: "That's a very useful walk-through, thanks." Tomaž Kaštrun: "Great step by step tutorial on setting up the hadoop connectivity and Polybase from Azure blob storage." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article! great work. The article is well written, well formatted, and the technical value is very high for the reader. Well done!" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Karen Payne | Windows Forms ListView: Examining Detail view with SQL-Server (VB.NET) | SYEDSHANU: "Great ,Useful and very detailed article Karen ,Thank you for sharing" Khanna Gaurav: "Great explanation for working of ListView" |
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Karen Payne | Sort DataGridView with List DataSource | SYEDSHANU: "One more very useful post ,Great to see the code part explanation with detail,Which will be more useful for the readers.Thank you for sharing karen" Khanna Gaurav: "Nicely explained" |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Karen Payne | C# Singleton pattern usage | Diederik Krols: "Great content! I personally know a lot of developers who should read this..." Jaliya Udagedara: "Good article. Small suggestion, we might not need to paste all the code (data etc.) as it will make the article long and readers might find it not easy to follow." Khanna Gaurav: "Good article to learn Singleton pattern usage" |
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Karen Payne | WinForms communicate between forms C# | Khanna Gaurav: "Great article. Examples in article are very easy to understand." Jaliya Udagedara: "Nice article on a common requirement." Diederik Krols: "Well done, thanks." Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "A good way to communicate the idea of data sharing." |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Habibur Rahaman | PowerShell: Remote server inventory automation email | Joseph Moody: "That is quite the script!! Thank you for sharing this and putting everything together!" Adam Fowler: "Lots of work put into this script, thanks for sharing it." Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for your script contribution. It is good operations notification tool to help those who needs it for their day to day operations." |
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Priyaranjan KS | Working with Access Token Authentication to Azure REST APIs using PowerShell to perform administrative tasks | Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for your contribution. It is a good PowerShell example on how to add Authorization Header in code." Adam Fowler: "Lots of detail, great screenshots!" Joseph Moody: "Very nice article! Excellent formatting and very easy to understand!" |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Karen Payne | WPF ListBox data templating/styling | Diederik Krols: "Very useful and well written, thanks." Khanna Gaurav: "Very useful article to learn customize ListBox" |
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Karen Payne | WPF/C# Setting visibility of controls based off another control | Diederik Krols: "Very informative, thanks." Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: "Good way to utilize the bindings, with a nice authoring style." Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - December 2019 |
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Priyaranjan KS | Windows Server : Container Host Deployment using PowerShell | Mark Parris: "Good foundational piece." Joseph Moody: "Another great contribution! Keep up the awesome submissions!" Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for your contribution on a quick walkthrough of Windows Containers with the help of MicrosoftDockerProvider PowerShell module." |
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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