Introduction

October's competition has now closed.
Submissions for November should go here.

If you contribute any new code, or solutions to problems in the following categories, please add your content (that you write for a Forum or Blog) to TechNet Wiki, and then add a link to your TechNet Wiki article below, to let us know.

This is a TechNet Wiki awards program, so we only want WIKI LINKS for articles created in October, not old, external forum or gallery links. If you have already made a contribution on the forums or gallery, simply copy it into the wiki and reference the original article, like shown here.

One winner in each category will be selected each month for glory and adoration by the MSDN/TechNet Ninjas and community as a whole. This includes a dedicated blog post in the Wiki Ninjas blog, a tweet from the Wiki Ninjas Twitter account, an announcement on your forum, and other acknowledgement from the community.

Winners will be voted on by five judges. The judges consist of 3 TechNet Wiki Community Council members and 2 Microsoft Employee SMEs (Subject Matter Experts -usually the people making the technologies). The judges will be looking for articles that are thorough, technically accurate, visually clear (images might help, but aren't necessary), and well written. (Any community member can help with the "technically accurate" part by reviewing the articles below and either fixing inaccuracies in the article or commenting on them--asking questions or suggesting fixes.) The articles must be written in October 2013 and must be in English. However, the original blog or forum content can be from before October. Make sure you aren't taking credit for someone else's content (you have to be the author of the original content and of the Wiki article). The categories listed are targeted to the most popular forums/technologies and ones that we are able to support. We will add more categories as we go (please don't add more categories, instead, leave a comment at the bottom to suggest a new category).

How to Enter

1) Create a new TechNet article

YOU CAN COPY YOUR CONTRIBUTION FROM MSDN/TECHNET FORUMS OVER TO TECHNET WIKI (IN October) TO QUALIFY FOR THESE AWARDS. You can also create a new article not related to your forums contributions.

A) Log into TechNet/MSDN with your Microsoft credentials

B) Add your content as an article to TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/add.aspx

If you are copying and pasting your MSDN/TechNet forum solutions over to TechNet Wiki, please give some introduction to the problem, make sure your steps are clear, and then link to the original forum post. You can also paste in your blog posts (rather than forum content).

2) Tell us about it

To add a link to your article:

A) Log into TechNet with your Microsoft credentials

B) Click the "Edit" tab, above this article title, and copy in the URL to your TechNet Wiki article into the appropriate section.
 

3) When and how we announce the winners

The competition closes at midnight PST. Any entries added to the page after that will not qualify. We then load all the entries into a voting website and contact all the judges. We usually give the judges a week or two to get their votes in, as these are very busy people. This means it could be up to the middle of the next month before we post the results. results are posted in this TechNet Ninja blog, and then proliferated out to the forums over the next day or so.

Categories

 Add Your Contributions for October in the Sections Below...

NOTE: These MUST be TechNet Wiki articles, and they MUST be written in October 2013.

BizTalk

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this BizTalk forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your BizTalk contribution here:

• BizTalk Server: N1 Loop Mapping by Maheshkumar S Tiwari
• BizTalk Server 2013: Monitor traffic using Fiddler2 by Steef-Jan Wiggers 
• BizTalk Server 2013: Connect to Window Azure Blob Storage by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Integration Development Architecture by Leonid Ganaline
• How to Install CRM Adapter for BizTalk Server 2009  by Mohammad Nizamuddin
• BizTalk Server 2013: Pricing and Licensing Survival Guide by Steef-Jan Wiggers
• BizTalk Server: Dynamic Schema Resolver Real Scenario by Suleiman Shakhtour
• BizTalk Server 2010: Processing Zip Message Having Multiple Type Files by Maheshkumar S Tiwari

Forefront Identity Manager

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this FIM forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your FIM contribution here:

• FIM 2010 R2: HowTo search for request details in msidmCompositeType by Peter_Stapf
• FIM 2010 R2: WAAD Connector - Managing the SourceAnchor field in a Multi-Forest Exchange organization by Ike Ugochuku

SharePoint 2010 / 2013

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this SharePoint General forum thread and in this SharePoint Development forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of SharePoint contribution here:

• SharePoint: Retrieving Credentials from the Secure Store Application using C# by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint: Customizing the Advanced Search Page by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint: Create Site Columns and Content Types using C#.net by Mohammad Nizamuddin
• SharePoint 2013: A no Code Solution to Build a Change Management Request by Dan Christian *
• SharePoint: Creating Approval Workflows using InfoPath by Sures Ramar 
• SharePoint 2013: Performance Issues with Search Service Application by Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2013: SkyDrive Pro is not supported with SharePoint 2010 by Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2013: Integration between SharePoint Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2013 can only be disabled on-premises by Gokan Ozcifci
• SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Server 2010 + ADFS + Claims + Google Apps Federation, Oh My! - JManley WI
• SharePoint 2010: Storing Database Connection Settings in the Secure Store by Matthew Yarlett
• SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 : Export WSP infos to a csv file and a SharePoint list by Benoît Jester
• SharePoint 2010: Start Timer Job from Site Collection by Nilesh Jain
• SharePoint 2010: Improve Search Relevance by Johan Olivier
• SharePoint 2013 : Upgrade a Site Collection (UI and PowerShell) by Benoît Jester
• SharePoint: Get Set and Copy User Profile Properties using PowerShell by Matthew Yarlett

* This entry was from September, but missed voting due to a technical issue.
 

Small Basic

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this Small Basic forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Small Basic contribution here:

• Small Basic: How to Rotate a Shape Not from the Center by Nonki Takahashi
• Small Basic: Grammar Basics by litdev
• Small Basic: Read and Write CSV Files by Florian Auer

SQL Server Database Engine

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this Database Engine forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Database Engine contribution here:

• What does 'Log Truncation' counter value signifies in DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters by Shanky_621
• Delete huge amount of data from a relation by Uwe Ricken

SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot)

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this SSRS forum thread, this SSIS forum thread, this SSAS forum thread, and this PowerPivot forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your SSRS or Power View contribution here:

• SSRS - How to calculate total of dynamic columns  by SathyanarrayananS
• DAX ISCROSSFILTERED function performance vs. DAX HASONEVALUE function by Christian Wade
• Using a View to Mask Multi-Server SSIS Package Configurations by Jason Brugger
• SSRS - Sorting by SathyanarrayananS
• Exists v.s Existing and Auto Exist in MDX by MNisharMSDN

Transact-SQL

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this T-SQL forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your T-SQL contribution here:

• T-SQL: Fast Code for Relationship within the Database by DIEGOCTN
• Node Traversal in a Tree by Himanshu Sharma
• T-SQL Useful Links by Naomi N *
• Procedure To Compare The Column Size With The Real Use Of Space by DIEGOCTN
• Crazy TSQL Queries play time by Ronen Ariely (nickname PITUACH)
• All-at-Once Operations in T-SQL by Saeid Hasani

* This entry was from September, but missed voting due to a technical issue.

Visual Basic

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this Visual Basic forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your VB contribution here:             

• Multipoint with the Kinect part I by The Thinker
• char Combinations by .paul. _
• How to Write to a Console Window without Wrapping Text by Reed Kimble
• How to Draw a Border of ASCII Text in a Console Application by Reed Kimble

Visual C#

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this Visual C# forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your C# contribution here:

• Filter a DataTable based on a Collection by Jaliya Udagedara
• Clear System Center End Point Protection exclusions without SCCM by Karl Mitschke
• Invoking UI components from NT service via C# PInvoke by Amit Choudhary
• Mapping a column value object array to Sql formatted types string by Amit Choudhary
• ValidationSummary and DataContext reloading issue silverlight by Amit Choudhary
• Simple class to convert reg_binary time to a datetime object in C# by Karl Mitschke
• Microsoft.NET: SMTP Server Relay setting and sending email using C# code by Mohammad Nizamuddin

Windows Phone and Store Apps

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this Windows Store app development forum thread and the Windows Phone development forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your Store App contribution here:

• How to transfer files between a Windows Store app and any Windows Phone app by mcosmin
• Testable navigation with MVVM through behaviors on Windows Phone 8 by fabian.henzler.serwiz.net
• Using the RenderTargetBitmap in Windows Store Apps with XAML and C# by Thomas Claudius Huber

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in this WPF forum thread.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your WPF contribution here:

• Nested menuitem in WPF ToolBar by Gaurav Khanna
• WPF: Displaying and Editing Many-to-Many Relational Data in a DataGrid by Magnus Montin (Magnus (MM8))
• WPF: Watermarked TextBox and PasswordBox by XAML guy

Windows Server

The TechNet Guru October competition is announced in the Windows Server General forum. the Windows Server 2012 forum, and the Directory Services forum.

Post a link to the TechNet Wiki page of your contribution here:

• Active Directory Group Policy Restricted Groups by Mr X
• Record Logon / Logoff Activities on Domain Servers and Workstations Using Group Policy by Mr X
• How to Create a Custom Attribute in Active Directory by Mr X
• Delegation of Administration in Active Directory by Mr X
• inetOrgPerson class in Active Directory by Mr X
• Apply BgInfo using a Group Policy Logon Script by Mr X
• Possible Impacts when Putting Online an Old FSMO Roles Holder by Mr X
• Central Management of DNS configuration compliance and updates by Mr X
• Delegation of Group Policy Full administration by Mr X
• Management of SIDs in Active Directory by Mr X
• How to delegate the restoration of objects from Active Directory Recycle Bin by Mr X

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See Also

•  TechNet Guru Contributions
•   List of Award Winning TechNet Guru Articles 

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