TechNet Guru Winners - February 2020

[Peter Laker]

All the votes (for February) are in!

Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, February 2020 !!!!  

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.

Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2020

Priyaranjan KS

SharePoint 2019 : Resolve Missing Partition Setup error encountered during MIM Sync

Pete Laker: "Very nice piece Pri, keep up the great work." Ed Price: "I like the structure, explanation, and the use of images. Great job, Priyaranjan!"

Microsoft 365 /O365 Technical Guru - February 2020

	Nanddeep Nachan	Develop Outlook Add-ins with SharePoint Framework	Mikael Svenson: "Well written and explained" Ed Price: "What I love about this is how great you did in filling out each section, including the Conclusion, Download, References, and See Also at the end! You even have the Back to Top links! You really did your homework to ensure a valuable resource! Great job!"
	Priyaranjan KS	Save data to SharePoint Online by Extracting Form Data from Document using AI Builder and Power Auto...	Mikael Svenson: "Well written and explained" Ed Price: "There is so much depth here, and the images help a ton!"
	Arleta Wanat	SharePoint Online: Add site to followed sites using PnP Powershell	Mikael Svenson: "You should update the sample to say how to get the SiteId value, as well as the complete ContentTypeId to be used." Ed Price: "The images and code references make this a very useful article!"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint Online: Get sites with custom themes by  Arleta Wanat
  Mikael Svenson: "If a user tries a theme, and revert to default, will this method reflect that no custom themes are in use?"
  Ed Price: "Custom Themes is a great topic, and the images really help a lot!"

Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2020

	Suthahar Jegatheesan	Build and Setup Bot Framework	Rajat Jaiswal: "Very well explained." Ed Price: "Great use of images and breaking down the information, with the different sections!" Tomaž Kaštrun: "Quick guide on how to setup a Bot framework (Part 1)"
	George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos	Azure Networking: VNet Peering	Tomaž Kaštrun: "Explanation on how to connect between Virtual Networks by establishing VNet Peering. Great post with rough cost estimates." Ed Price: "This is an important topic that's executed very well! The Related Links section at the end is a great resource!" Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice article"
	Suthahar Jegatheesan	Bot Framework Composer: Ask Questions to users	Tomaž Kaštrun: "Quick, yet detailed guide on how to setup a Bot framework and ask questions to users (Part 3)" Ed Price: "Well executed with a lot of information, images, and links!"

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Bot Framework Composer: Send welcome message to users by Suthahar Jegatheesan
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Quick guide on how to setup a Bot framework and welcome message to users (Part 2)"
  Ed Price: "This article has a great Introduction that does a good job explaining the context!"
• Utilizing Azure Blobs and webJob to Convert Excel files to Flat file format by Shweta Lodha
  Ed Price: "Such a powerful introduction! I love how easy to read every section is! The code is very helpful and formatted beautifully! And the References at the end are great!"
  Tomaž Kaštrun: "Great and useful article on how to read Excel file from blob storage, convert it to CSV format and upload them back to Azure blob storage. Very frequent scenario, especially for those using blob storage with a lot of excel files."
  Rajat Jaiswal: "Good one."

Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2020

	Jiong Shi	Build a Azure Sphere IoT Car with Remote Control	Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice experiment. I would also like to try this at my end. Keep sharing." Ed Price: "Oh my! What doesn't this article have? It has a video, code, images, and a wonderful explanation! And when you get to the Resources links at the end, you'll be able to get lost for hours in the content!"
	George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos	MS Intune: Configure Windows 10 Client	Peter Laker: "This is a nicely laid out article with all you need to know to get started. Great work Geo" Ed Price: "It's great to have the reference links at the end!"

SharePoint Technical Guru - February 2020

	Nanddeep Nachan	SharePoint Framework Extension: Pre-allocate space for an Application Customizer	John Naguib: "Very Nice thanks a lot" Mikael Svenson: "Well written and scenario is well explained." Ed Price: "Wonderfully executed, with code, images, clear instructions, and References and See Also links at the bottom! The See Also links follow the Wiki rules well... they're internal links (versus the external References links). Great job on this masterpiece!"
	Habibur Rahaman	SharePoint Troubleshooting: fix the upgrade database error when SharePoint configuration wizard fail...	John Naguib: "Thanks for sharing" Ed Price: "This is an important scenario. It's valuable to have the full error text, like this."
	Habibur Rahaman	SharePoint Troubleshooting: SharePoint Server Error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=177673	Pete Laker: "Nice write-up, thanks Habihur" Ed Price: "The screenshots are helpful!" John Naguib: ""

SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2020

Mohamed El-Qassas MVP

Power BI: Filters on Slicers

Tomaž Kaštrun: "Beginners quick guide to Filters on Slicers for Power BI (version June 2019 or later)." Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice article." PT: "Useful post and a good start. I'd like to see these features demonstrated using a practical application. Please expand on this." Ed Price: "I love the amount of detail you went through on this. It's very exhaustive!"

SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - February 2020

Visakh16

SQLServer: Populating Table With Kafka Topic Data

Tomaž Kaštrun: "Using Kafka stream to populate SQL Server table. Great article." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Awesome article! Very interesting topic. The article is well written and well formatted and the content is well explained. It is hot topic today and fit great to the Wiki. Well done." Ed Price: "I love the diagram, images, and the command code you provided!"

System Center Technical Guru - February 2020

	Leon Laude	SCOM 2019: One-click Update Rollup installer	Adam Fowler: "Great writeup including a FAQ of questions expected, and lots of useful screenshots of the process." Ed Price: "Great images and instructions! This is great topic!" Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for the screenshot walkthrough. That really helps a lot for others."
	Dujon Walsham	SCOM: Operations Manager Compliance Dashboard	Kia Zhi Tang: "I enjoy the dashboard images and those descriptions. Thank you." Ed Price: "I love the diagrams! There is a ton of information here!" Adam Fowler: "Great explanation of the dashboard and what it all means!"

Transact-SQL Technical Guru - February 2020

Mohamed El-Qassas MVP

T-SQL Troubleshooting: AVG() function doesn't show the correct value in SQL

Tomaž Kaštrun: "Quick tip on using aggregate function AVG() in T-SQL with integer data types." Rajat Jaiswal: "simple and well explained." Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): "Great article for beginners. The article is well structured and well written, which is great. I am not sure that this topic has place by it self since it is a bit short. It is very basic information, which might come as part of full tutorial about the function AVG() in general or a set of other behaviors related to the different between decimal, int, and float. I love the images which add color." Ed Price: "Incredibly well executed! I love the use of functions!"

Visual Basic Technical Guru - February 2020

	Karen Payne	Entity Framework dynamic Order	Ed Price: "This is astonishing! From the logo at the top, to the use of code, and the screenshot with call-outs... it's all executed so well!" Khanna Gaurav: "Great article"
	Karen Payne	Entity Framework views in Windows Forms (VB.NET)	Ed Price: "I love how you set up and explain the code! Having the image in the Source Code section is very valuable!" Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article"
	Karen Payne	VB.NET Entity Framework: Wiki portal	Ed Price: "What a fantastic resource for the community!" Pete Laker: "Nice, thanks Karen!"

Visual C# Technical Guru - February 2020

	Karen Payne	Entity Framework Core/Windows Forms tips and tricks	Ed Price: "Every single tip is powerful and packed! The See Also links at the end are a great resource. Fantastic article, Karen!" Jaliya Udagedara: "Good article with a lot of tips!"
	SYED SHANU	Blazor: Alphabet Learning Mobile Game using Mobile Blazor Bindings	Jaliya Udagedara: "Wonderful article, excellent! Everything is detailed and easy to follow." Ed Price: "What a fun game from Syed! You do an amazing job walking us through every single detail!"
	Karen Payne	Data Binding ListBox/ComboBox in Windows forms (C#)	Jaliya Udagedara: "A well-explained solution for a common requirement. Nice!" Ed Price: "This is a powerful resource with a lot of sections, that tell the full story!"

Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2020

Priyaranjan KS

Working with Microsoft Graph API using PowerShell

Kia Zhi Tang: "Thanks for the good example walkthrough." Adam Fowler: "Very detailed write up on an important area that we should all know!" Ed Price: "Great use of images, and great depth in this article!"

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

Best regards,

Pete Laker  

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