Wiki Ninjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/feed.xml Wiki Ninjas is a group of authors who celebrate and evangelize the community catalyst and social-authoring excellence that is called TechNet Wiki. Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:00:01 GMT en-US hourly 1 Create broadcast using Microsoft Teams https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/create-broadcast-using-microsoft-teams Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:00:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29775 here Then you can go to meetings tab and then press New meeting.     Then from the drop down beside New Meeting press on it and then choose New Live event.     Then fill the information to create your event.     You can set your event to be public outside your office 365 tenant or private. Then you are ready to go to the generated link as presenter to start the event and you can share link with your audience so they can join the broadcast.     Some Reference Links over TechNet Wikis: Microsoft Teams Survival Guide Microsoft Teams Administration   By John Naguib (Twitter,  TechNet Profile,  MVP Profile)  ]]> TNWiki Article Spotlight – ASP.NET Core 2.2 step-by-step https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/tnwiki-article-spotlight-asp-net-core-2-2-step-by-step Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:47:05 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29525 Dear All, Welcome to the TechNet Wiki Tuesday – TNWiki Article Spotlight. We are in 50:50 now ,yes we are in the end of June month  that means as we have passed 6 month of 2019 and we have 6 more month to welcome our 2020,In this middle place I would like to share with you all an special article which explains in detail about  ASP.NET Core 2.2 step-by-step: Creating applications by  Shweta Jain (Lodha) In our TechNet wiki there are  lots of article related to ASP.NET Core but still this article seems to be more good for me as this article explains in step by step with various examples to getting started with ASP.NET Core,This is the main reason i select this article to spotlight today. Here I would like to highlight few interesting topics covered in this  article ASP.NET Core 2.2 step-by-step: Creating applications by  Shweta Jain (Lodha)
  • Introduction
  • Prerequisite
  • Machine Configuration
  • Expectation
  • Good to Start
  • Creating a new ASP.NET Core 2.2 Application
  • Plugging Middleware and Services
  • Creating Model and Repository Classes
  • Adding Controller
  • Adding View
  • Improvising on including HTML markup
  • Introducing Layout Template
  • Refining the View even further using _ViewStart
  • Introducing ViewModel
  • Improving Look and Feel of the view using Bootstrap
  • Getting real data using EF Core
  • Creating a Database
  • Adding Navigation
  • Adding Form to Request Comments
  • Adding authorization Support
This is the great feat for the SP.NET Core lovers who are looking for an article to getting started.As we can see this article covers all the basic topics need to be understand before starting with ASP.NET Core.If you are new to ASP.NET Core and looking to get started then I will recommend you to read this article from here ASP.NET Core 2.2 step-by-step: Creating applications by  Shweta Jain (Lodha) See you all soon in another blog post.
Thank you all. MSDN Profile | MVP Profile | Facebook | Twitter | TechNet Wiki the community where we all join hands to share Microsoft-related information.]]> Sunday Surprise: SQL Server Database Stretch Database https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/wiki-life-sql-server-database-stretch-database Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:00:25 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29555 Configure a Stretch database

Step 1. SQL Server Management Studio

Open SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), pick a database to enable the Stretch feature, right-click the database and select Tasks - Stretch - Enable.

Step 2. Introduction

Follow the "Enable Database for Stretch" wizard steps.  At the Introduction step click Next >

Step 3. Select tables

Select the tables that you want to stretch and click Next >  

Step 4. Configure Azure

In the 4th step, you have to configure Azure, this means that you have to sign-in Azure portal, select subscription and create an Azure Server in case you don't have.

Step 5. Secure credentials

In Secure credentials step, type a strong password for DMK (Database Master Key)

Step 6. Select IP address

Select between "Use source SQL Server Public IP" or "Use subnet IP range" to configure the Azure firewall to allow on-premises SQL Server connection with Azure SQL Database Server.

Step 7. Summary

Check the summary and select Finish.

Step 8. Results

At the final wizard's step, you are able to see if the Tasks are passed successfully, and select to Close the wizard.

SQL Server stretch database

After 1-2 minutes you are able to see in the Azure portal an SQL Stretch Server. Also, in the SSMS the database image has changed, and with this icon, you can recognize that this database has enabled the stretch feature.

Monitor the Service

The Stretch service gives also gives the ability to Monitor the service operation. To do this right-click the database and select Tasks - Stretch - Monitor. In the image below you can view the Stretch Database Monitor what information's shows to a dba.  

Enable Stretch Feature To More Tables

If you need to enable the Stretch Database feature for more tables then just need to right-click on the table, and select Stretch - Enable.      ]]> Top Contributors Awards! Logic Apps: Message Validation with XML, JSON and Flat-File Schemas and many more! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/top-contributors-awards-logic-apps-message-validation-with-xml-json-and-flat-file-schemas-and-many-more Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:21:55 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29745 Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week. First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...   As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.  
Ninja Award Most Revisions Award Who has made the most individual revisions
  #1 Peter Geelen with 185 revisions.   #2 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 23 revisions.   #3 karimSP with 23 revisions.   Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:   #4 Emre Ozan Memis with 21 revisions.   #5 Edward van Biljon with 16 revisions.   #6 Subhro Majumder with 11 revisions.   #7 Leon Laude with 11 revisions.   #8 Habibur Rahaman with 11 revisions.   #9 Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh with 11 revisions.   #10 Dave Rendón with 9 revisions.    
Ninja Award Most Articles Updated Award Who has updated the most articles
  #1 Peter Geelen with 105 articles.   #2 karimSP with 17 articles.   #3 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 16 articles.   Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:   #4 Emre Ozan Memis with 15 articles.   #5 Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh with 7 articles.   #6 Nonki Takahashi with 4 articles.   #7 Dave Rendón with 4 articles.   #8 Leon Laude with 2 articles.   #9 Stephan Bren with 1 articles.   #10 Habibur Rahaman with 1 articles.    
Ninja Award Most Updated Article Award Largest amount of updated content in a single article
  The article to have the most change this week was SharePoint 2010: Extending the User Profile Attributes drop down List, by Gokan Ozcifci This week's reviser was Peter Geelen    
Ninja Award Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week
  This week's largest document to get some attention is Logic Apps: Message Validation with XML, JSON and Flat-File Schemas (part 2), by DBS14 This week's revisers were Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh & karimSP    
Ninja Award Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week
  This week's most fiddled with article is SCCM: How To Effectively Audit SCCM Remote Access Registry Settings, by C Sharp Conner. It was revised 10 times last week. This week's revisers were karimSP, Peter Geelen & C Sharp Conner    
Ninja Award 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 Competitions: June 2019, by Peter Geelen This week's revisers were Nonki Takahashi, Dwalsham, karimSP, C Sharp Conner, Leon Laude, Nanddeep Nachan & [Kamlesh Kumar]   The article to be updated by the second most people this week is PowerShell: Count SQLServer Databases, by Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh This week's revisers were George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos, Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh, Edward van Biljon & Emre Ozan Memis  
Ninja Award 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  
Ninja Award 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. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! Peter Geelen has featured articles on TechNet Wiki! Peter Geelen has won 311 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Peter Geelen has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: Peter Geelen's profile page Most Articles Award Winner The reviser is the winner of this category. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen is mentioned above. Most Updated Article Award Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes. Gokan Ozcifci Gokan Ozcifci has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! Gokan Ozcifci has won 67 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Gokan Ozcifci has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below) Gokan Ozcifci's profile page Longest Article Award Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long! DBS14 DBS14 has won 9 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: DBS14 has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: DBS14 has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below) DBS14's profile page Most Revised Article Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the most C Sharp Conner C Sharp Conner has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! C Sharp Conner has won 3 previous Top Contributor Awards: C Sharp Conner has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: C Sharp Conner has not yet had any featured articles (see below) C Sharp Conner's profile page Most Popular Article Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen is mentioned above.   Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh has won 8 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below) Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh's profile page Ninja Edit Award Winner The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest! Peter Geelen Peter Geelen is mentioned above.    Says: Another great week from all in our community! Thank you all for so much great literature for us to read this week! Please keep reading and contributing, because Sharing is caring..!!   Best regards,   ]]> Top Contributors Awards! ASP.NET Core 2.2 step-by-step: Creating applications and many more! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/top-contributors-awards-asp-net-core-2-2-step-by-step-creating-applications-and-many-more Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:29:43 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29405 Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week. First up, the weekly leader board snapshot... As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.  
Ninja Award Most Revisions Award Who has made the most individual revisions
  #1 Peter Geelen with 190 revisions.   #2 Arleta Wanat with 81 revisions.   #3 Dave Rendón with 37 revisions.   Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:   #4 Emre Ozan Memis with 19 revisions.   #5 Nonki Takahashi with 11 revisions.   #6 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 9 revisions.   #7 Shweta Jain (Lodha) with 9 revisions.   #8 Leon Laude with 8 revisions.   #9 get2pallav with 7 revisions.   #10 RajeeshMenoth with 6 revisions.    
Ninja Award Most Articles Updated Award Who has updated the most articles
  #1 Peter Geelen with 103 articles.   #2 Arleta Wanat with 58 articles.   #3 Dave Rendón with 31 articles.   Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:   #4 Emre Ozan Memis with 17 articles.   #5 RajeeshMenoth with 5 articles.   #6 Nonki Takahashi with 5 articles.   #7 get2pallav with 5 articles.   #8 Leon Laude with 3 articles.   #9 .paul. _ with 2 articles.   #10 Edward van Biljon with 2 articles.    
Ninja Award Most Updated Article Award Largest amount of updated content in a single article
  The article to have the most change this week was SQL Server: Trickle Loading with Columnstore Indexes, by Eric N. Hanson MSFT This week's reviser was Peter Geelen  
Ninja Award Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week
  This week's largest document to get some attention is RDP Direct Connection with NLA RDS Session Host Event Logs, by jagilber This week's reviser was Arleta Wanat  
Ninja Award Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week
  This week's most fiddled with article is ASP.NET Core 2.2 step-by-step: Creating applications, by Shweta Jain (Lodha). It was revised 7 times last week. This week's reviser was Shweta Jain (Lodha)  
Ninja Award Most Popular Article Award Collaboration is the name of the game!
  The article to be updated by the most people this week is PowerShell User Groups, by Craig Lussier This week's revisers were Fredrik Wall, Joey Piccola, Ricc Babbitt, PRASOON KARUNAN V, Tim Curwick & François-Xavier Cat  
Ninja Award 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  
Ninja Award 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. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! Peter Geelen has featured articles on TechNet Wiki! Peter Geelen has won 307 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Peter Geelen has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: Peter Geelen's profile page Most Articles Award Winner The reviser is the winner of this category. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen is mentioned above. Most Updated Article Award Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes. Eric N. Hanson MSFT Eric N. Hanson MSFT has featured articles on TechNet Wiki! This is the first Top Contributors award for Eric N. Hanson MSFT on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Eric N. Hanson MSFT! Eric N. Hanson MSFT has not yet had any interviews or TechNet Guru medals (see below) Eric N. Hanson MSFT's profile page Longest Article Award Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long! jagilber jagilber has won 4 previous Top Contributor Awards: jagilber has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below) jagilber's profile page Most Revised Article Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the most Shweta Jain (Lodha) This is the first Top Contributors award for Shweta Jain (Lodha) on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Shweta Jain (Lodha)! Shweta Jain (Lodha) has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: Shweta Jain (Lodha) has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below) Shweta Jain (Lodha)'s profile page Most Popular Article Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention. Craig Lussier Craig Lussier has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! Craig Lussier has won 8 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Craig Lussier has not yet had any featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below) Craig Lussier's profile page Ninja Edit Award Winner The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest! Tim Curwick This is the first Top Contributors award for Tim Curwick on TechNet Wiki! Congratulations Tim Curwick! Tim Curwick has not yet had any interviews, featured articles or TechNet Guru medals (see below) Tim Curwick's profile page    Says: Another great week from all in our community! Thank you all for so much great literature for us to read this week! Please keep reading and contributing, because Sharing is caring..!!   Best regards,   ]]> Council Spotlight: Microsoft TechNet Wiki Gurus Needed For June 2019! Apply Within! No One Turned Away!!! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/council-spotlight-microsoft-technet-wiki-gurus-needed-for-june-2019-apply-within-no-one-turned-away Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:05:11 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29415

What is TechNet Guru Competition?

Each month Microsoft TechNet Wiki council organizes a contest of the best articles posted that month. This is your chance to be announced as MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY GURU OF THE MONTH! One winner in each category will be selected each month for glory and adoration by the MSDN/TechNet Ninjas and community as a whole. Winners will be announced in dedicated blog post that will be published in Microsoft Wiki Ninjas blog, a tweet from Microsoft Wiki Ninjas Twitter account, links will be published at Microsoft TNWiki group on Facebook, and other acknowledgement from the community will follow.

Some of our biggest community voices and many MVPs have passed through these halls on their way to fame and fortune.

If you have already made a contribution in the forums or gallery or you published a nice blog, then you can simply convert it into a shared wiki article, reference the original post, and register the article for the TechNet Guru Competition. The articles must be written in June 2019 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before June 2019.

Come and see who is making waves in all your favorite technologies. Maybe it will be you!

Who can join the Competition?

Anyone who has basic knowledge and the desire to share the knowledge is welcome. Articles can appeal to beginners or discusse advanced topics. All you have to do is to add your article to TechNet Wiki from your own specialty category.

How can you win?

  1. Please copy/Write over your Microsoft technical solutions and revelations to TechNetWiki.
  2. Add a link to your new article on THIS WIKI COMPETITION PAGE (so we know you've contributed)
  3. (Optional but recommended) Add a link to your article at the TechNetWiki group on Facebook to get feedback and tips from the council members and from the community. The group is very active and people love to help. You can even get direct improvements to your article before the contest starts.

Do you have any question or want more information?

Feel free to ask any questions below, or Join us at the official MicrosoftTechNet Wiki groups on facebook. Read More about TechNet Guru Awards. If you win, people will sing your praises online and your name will be raised as Guru of the Month. PS: Above top banner came from Bala S.]]> TechNet Wiki Guru Winners! (April 2019) https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/technet-wiki-guru-winners-april-2019 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:36:51 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29385 All the votes (for April) are (belatedly) in! Below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, April 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.
SQL Server General & Database Engine Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Av111 SQL Server 2019 step-by-step: Installation Ronen Ariely: "Great article! This is very useful topic, as long as the article will be kept updated until the general availability release of the production version. The article is well written but missing a section of "See Also" and readers can gain a lot from links to other relevant articles like installation of previous versions, and information related to the new version. Well done!" "👀": "Very nice. Great work. Thanks for sharing"
 
ASP.NET Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   M.Vignesh ASP.NET MVC: Getting Started (Part 2) Sabah Shariq: "As I stated in Part 1 there is already many article available in this topic so, no need to re-write same topic. What can be done is write something next level on ASP.NET MVC. As we are moving to .NET Core so something on this platform would be good choice. But like to mention here that it is nice thinking on the image that shows which function points to which program files in solution explorer." Khanna Gaurav: "Routing process nicely explained"
 
Microsoft 365 /O365 Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Nanddeep Nachan Build Custom App Pages with SharePoint Framework John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for sharing" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Nice article, thanks for sharing!"
Silver Award Winner   Nanddeep Nachan Using React Components in SPFx Extension Application Customizer John Naguib: "Thanks a lot for sharing" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Good article, thanks for sharing!"
 
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Shanky_621 Azure ARM Template: How to deploy Azure VM using ARM template and PowerShell Eric Berg: "thank you" Lasse Wedø: "Great walk through, would have liked a bit more on resource groups setup and validation"
Silver Award Winner   George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos Azure Networking : Learn About Load-Balancers Eric Berg: "well done. Thanks" Lasse Wedø: "A nice walk through, table on features were a bit off in my browser, could need some tuneup. But information was great."
Bronze Award Winner   Shanky_621 Azure Managed Instance: Configure P2S VPN Using Certificates and Connect to SQL managed Instance from On-premise Machine Lasse Wedø: "Very informative, descriptive and useful" Eric Berg: "thank you....maybe we can find a better title to this...."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:  
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Chilberto Playing around with PlayFab Peter Geelen: "Nice article! It would greatly help to replace the code sample image by text, to increase SEO." Lasse Wedø: "It works as an overview, but I would have liked more details or specifics."
 
SharePoint Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Nanddeep Nachan SharePoint Framework: How to Implement CI/CD Tiago Costa: "Great article on a unexplored topic. Really useful for SharePoint developers. Long goes the time to manual deploy applications, this is very useful information" Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Great wiki. Technical detail and well done. Fantastic!!!" John Naguib: "Very nice topic thanks for this info" Mohamed El-Qassas: "Nice article, thanks for sharing!"
Silver Award Winner   Ramakrishnan Raman Bundling multiple SharePoint Framework(SPFx) webparts into one common JS file Mohamed El-Qassas: "Nice article, thanks for sharing!" Tiago Costa: "Interesting concept, but a simple article." Hezequias Vasconcelos: "It's good wiki. We would expect more technical details and illustration." John Naguib: "Thanks for sharing"
Bronze Award Winner   Nanddeep Nachan SharePoint Framework: Update Challenges with npm Packages Mohamed El-Qassas: "Nice article, thanks for sharing!" Tiago Costa: "The English of this article needs a good review. Nevertheless is an interesting article that should be a little bit better organized." Hezequias Vasconcelos: "Good quality wiki. Develop more technically." John Naguib: "Thanks for sharing"
 
Small Basic Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Nonki Takahashi Microsoft Small Basic Online v1.0 (CS): Installation Guide SYEDSHANU: "As usual very useful post Nionki,Simple easy steps to install Small basic V1.0 and good tips for the beginners.."
 
System Center Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Leon Laude Upgrading to DPM 2019 Step-By-Step Eric Berg: "Thank you" Adam Fowler: "Lots of great clear screenshots for a process many people need to follow" Joseph Moody: "Also a great guide! I am not as familiar with this process but you made it very straight forward."
Silver Award Winner   Dujon Walsham SCCM Deployment Dashboard Joseph Moody: "Very slick! I am looking forward to using this!!" Robert Smit: "good post" Adam Fowler: "Great detailed writeup with good explanations, wording may need a little more work." Eric Berg: "thank you"
Bronze Award Winner   Leon Laude Upgrading to Orchestrator 2019 Step-by-Step Adam Fowler: "Great detailed guide and covers as many scenarios as possible" Joseph Moody: "Great upgrade guide! You did a wonderful job of sorting out what is really important and what isn't." Eric Berg: "Well done"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:  
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   SathyanarrayananS Search for a string or phrase in SQL Server database Rajat Jaiswal: "Thank you for this tip"
Silver Award Winner   Natiq Rzazade Dynamic Merge Script Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice one. Would be a great help if you include performance factor as well."
 
Visual Basic Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Karen Payne VB.NET Type conversions part 1 Mark Rideout: "Great article! Love the details presented as folks can easily misunderstand how type conversion works in VB.NET" SYEDSHANU: "Very useful and detailed code explained article thanks for sharing karen ,Good to see as the source code is attached for the users."
 
Visual C# Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   .paul. _ C# - Simple Ciphers Rajat Jaiswal: "Nice example. The only thing which I would like to know the collision chances." Jaliya Udagedara: "Would have been great if the code is explained." Khanna Gaurav: "Nice article"
 
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Emre Ozan Memis PowerShell: Resources monitoring Peter Geelen: "Well done!" Joseph Moody: "Good code! If you can, explain how the different pieces work together. This is a great way to help those not as fluent with PowerShell get better." Adam Fowler: "Needs some explanations on what we're looking at!" Kia Zhi Tang: "Thank you for your contribution. You may want to update the PowerShell code for realtime ram and realtime disk section because they can't be identical from the same WMI class."
 
Windows Server Technical Guru - April 2019
Gold Award Winner   Leon Laude Windows Server: Installing roles and features in different ways Peter Geelen: "Well done! Nice mix of text content and images!" Mark Parris: "A good visual example of the GUI and Command line approach to installing server roles or features." Joseph Moody: "Great article showing how many ways exist to solve this issue! I really appreciate the formatting and screenshots." Kia Zhi Tang: "Good walkthrough with screenshots. Thank you for your contribution."
  A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition. Best regards, Pete Laker   More about the TechNet Guru Awards: ]]> TNWiki Article Spotlight – Blazor: Deploying An Application On Firebase https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/tnwiki-article-spotlight-blazor-deploying-an-application-on-firebase Tue, 28 May 2019 01:00:24 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29375 It's another Tuesday and I am warmly welcoming you all to this week's TNWiki Article Spotlight. If you are not aware by now, Blazor is no longer an experimental framework and it's now in official preview. So it's about high time you want to start learning Blazor (if you haven't already). In TechNet, there are already a lot of rich articles on Blazor, which will definitely help you get up to speed.
For this weeks' TNWiki article spotlight, I have chosen an article on Blazor and it shows how you can deploy a Blazor application on Firebase. Firebase is Google's mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps and grow your business. This article has won the Gold medal in ASP.NET Technical Guru - February 2019 under ASP.NET Category and was published by Ankit. Ankit has written many TNWiki articles on Blazor during the past couple of months. 
This article is a complete article, it has all the information you need from creating a very simple Blazor application to publishing it to Firebase. The article is well formatted, it has a Table of Contents for you to easily navigate around, a lot of images and of course, towards the end of the article, you are provided with a link to download the complete source code. What else can you ask for? You can read the full article from the following link, Blazor: Deploying An Application On Firebase
Have a nice week ahead!
Happy Coding!   (Blog, MSDN Profile, Twitter)]]> TNWiki Article Spotlight – Azure Networking: Learn About Load-Balancers https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/tnwiki-article-spotlight-azure-networking-learn-about-load-balancers Tue, 21 May 2019 03:42:25 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29325 Dear All, Welcome to the TechNet Wiki Tuesday – TNWiki Article Spotlight. We are heading to Summer , in this hot season i would like to share with you all an very hot and awesome article Azure Networking: Learn About Load-Balancers by  George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos The main reason why i select this article as this article deeply explains about  Azure Networking and Load Balancers ,Microsoft states Azure Load Balancer as
With Azure Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create high availability for your services. Load Balancer supports inbound and outbound scenarios, provides low latency and high throughput, and scales up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP applications. Azure Load Balancer is available in two SKUs: Basic and Standard. There are differences in scale, features, and pricing You can use Azure Load Balancer to:
  • Load-balance incoming internet traffic to your VMs. This configuration is known as a Public Load Balancer.
  • Load-balance traffic across VMs inside a virtual network. You can also reach a Load Balancer front end from an on-premises network in a hybrid scenario. Both scenarios use a configuration that is known as an Internal Load Balancer.
  • Port forward traffic to a specific port on specific VMs with inbound network address translation (NAT) rules.
  • Provide outbound connectivity for VMs inside your virtual network by using a public Load Balancer.
ref: Azure Load Balancer Here I would like to highlight few interesting topics covered in this  article Azure Networking: Learn About Load-Balancers by  George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos.
  • What Azure Load-Balancer is?
  • Load-Balancing (Public - Internal)
  • Public Load-Balancer
  • Internal Load - Balancer
  • Azure Load - Balancer SKUs
  • Azure Load-Balancer Distribution Modes
  • Hash based distribution mode
  • 5-Tuple hash
  • Source IP affinity mode
  • 2-Tuple hash or 3-Tuple hash
  • Create Azure Load-Balancer
  • Step1: Add New resource (Load Balancer)
  • Step 2: Search for the resource (Load Balancer)
  • Step 3: Begin creation
  • Step 4: Configure tab "Basics"
  • Configure The Load-Balancer
  • Step 1: Frontend IP configuration
  • Step 2: Backend Pools Configuration
  • Step 3: Health Probe Configuration
  • Step 4: Load Balancing Rule Configuration
If you are curious to learn more about Azure Networking: Learn About Load-Balancers then this article guides you all in detail to getting started. Thank you George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos for sharing the lovely article to our TechNet Wiki Community.  See you all soon in another blog post.
Thank you all. MSDN Profile | MVP Profile | Facebook | Twitter | TechNet Wiki the community where we all join hands to share Microsoft-related information.]]> Top Contributors Awards! T-SQL : Data profiling in On-premise SQL Server / Azure SQL database and many more! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/wikininjas/top-contributors-awards-t-sql-data-profiling-in-on-premise-sql-server-azure-sql-database-and-many-more Sat, 18 May 2019 00:05:33 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/?p=29345 Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week. First up, the weekly leader board snapshot... As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.  
Ninja Award Most Revisions Award Who has made the most individual revisions
  #1 Peter Geelen with 100 revisions.   #2 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 89 revisions.   #3 Ramabadran Vasudevan with 25 revisions.   Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:   #4 Emre Ozan Memis with 22 revisions.   #5 SathyanarrayananS with 12 revisions.   #6 Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh with 12 revisions.   #7 Av111 with 11 revisions.   #8 Dave Rendón with 11 revisions.   #9 Denis Dyagilev with 6 revisions.   #10 Jedi_Administrator with 5 revisions.    
Ninja Award Most Articles Updated Award Who has updated the most articles
  #1 Peter Geelen with 45 articles.   #2 George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos with 30 articles.   #3 Ramabadran Vasudevan with 17 articles.   Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:   #4 Emre Ozan Memis with 16 articles.   #5 Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh with 8 articles.   #6 Dave Rendón with 6 articles.   #7 Av111 with 3 articles.   #8 Denis Dyagilev with 3 articles.   #9 SathyanarrayananS with 2 articles.   #10 Edward van Biljon with 2 articles.    
Ninja Award Most Updated Article Award Largest amount of updated content in a single article
  The article to have the most change this week was ASP.NET MVC: Getting Started (Part 4), by M.Vignesh This week's reviser was Peter Geelen  
Ninja Award Longest Article Award Biggest article updated this week
  This week's largest document to get some attention is Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule - 2019, by [Kamlesh Kumar] This week's reviser was SYEDSHANU - MVP  
Ninja Award Most Revised Article Award Article with the most revisions in a week
  This week's most fiddled with article is T-SQL : Data profiling in On-premise SQL Server / Azure SQL database, by SathyanarrayananS. It was revised 10 times last week. This week's reviser was SathyanarrayananS  
Ninja Award Most Popular Article Award Collaboration is the name of the game!
  The article to be updated by the most people this week is SQL Server Troubleshooting: The NT service 'MsDtsServer120' could not be started while patching, by Av111 This week's revisers were Av111, Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh & George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos  
Ninja Award 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  
Ninja Award 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. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! Peter Geelen has featured articles on TechNet Wiki! Peter Geelen has won 305 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Peter Geelen has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: Peter Geelen's profile page Most Articles Award Winner The reviser is the winner of this category. Peter Geelen Peter Geelen is mentioned above. Most Updated Article Award Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the changes. M.Vignesh M.Vignesh has won 26 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: M.Vignesh has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: M.Vignesh has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below) M.Vignesh's profile page Longest Article Award Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that is so long! [Kamlesh Kumar] [Kamlesh Kumar] has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! [Kamlesh Kumar] has won 45 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: [Kamlesh Kumar] has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: [Kamlesh Kumar] has not yet had any featured articles (see below) [Kamlesh Kumar]'s profile page Most Revised Article Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has ben changed the most SathyanarrayananS SathyanarrayananS has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! SathyanarrayananS has featured articles on TechNet Wiki! SathyanarrayananS has won 3 previous Top Contributor Awards: SathyanarrayananS has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: SathyanarrayananS's profile page Most Popular Article Winner The author is the winner, as it is their article that has had the most attention. Av111 Av111 has won 14 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: Av111 has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: Av111 has not yet had any interviews or featured articles (see below) Av111's profile page Ninja Edit Award Winner The author is the reviser, for it is their hand that is quickest! George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos has been interviewed on TechNet Wiki! George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos has won 51 previous Top Contributor Awards. Most recent five shown below: George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos has TechNet Guru medals, for the following articles: George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos has not yet had any featured articles (see below) George Chrysovaladis Grammatikos's profile page    Says: Another great week from all in our community! Thank you all for so much great literature for us to read this week! Please keep reading and contributing, because Sharing is caring..!!   Best regards,   ]]>