• Nominees for future featured articles for the TechNet Wiki home page.

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Publication Schedule 

Publication dates are roughly Monday & Thursday of each week. An article will be the primary featured article for a minimum of two days. These are the people who are scheduled to nominate and/or publish for these weeks:

• 7/4: Ed
• 7/11: Tom
• 7/18: Yuri
• 7/25: Eric
• 8/1: Bill
• 8/8: Russ
  • How to Shard with SQL Azure 
  • Compare SQL Server with SQL Azure  
• 8/15: Ed
  • New Spatial Features in SQL Server Code-Named "Denali"
  • How to Automatically Add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Your Wiki Article
• 8/22: Tom
• 8/29: Yuri
  • IPv6 Survival Guide
  • Project Crescent Overview
• 9/5: Ed/Peter 
  • Forefront Identity Manager Resources
• 9/12: Ed
  • BizTalk + WF/WCF, Better Together
• 9/19: Bill
  • Reference Architecture for Private Cloud
• 9/26: Russ
  • Data Visualizations in Project Cresent
  • Move Access Data to the Cloud
• 10/3: Eric
  • Wiki: Getting Started
• 10/10: Tom
• 10/17: Yuri
  • Microsoft Security Compliance Manager - Getting Started
• 10/24: Ed
  • PowerPivot: DAX Survival Guide
  • Windows PowerShell Survival Guide
• 10/31: Bill
• 11/7: Russ
• 11/14: Eric
• 11/21: Yuri
• 11/28: Ed

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Nominees

To nominate any article, add it here for the publisher to review (listed alphabetically):

• ADFS
  • Install AD FS 2.0 Hotfixes in Preparation for Office 365
  • Migrate Your AD FS Configuration Database to SQL Server
• AD RMS
  • AD RMS Portal
• BizTalk Server:
  • BizTalk Server 2010
  • BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki  
  • Developing Integration Solutions Using BizTalk Server 2009 and Team Foundation Server - Planning 
  • How To Plan for an Installation of the BizTalk Accelerator for Rosettanet
  • Invoke ReSTful Web Services with BizTalk Server 2010  
  • Install the BizTalk Server 2010 AppFabric Connect Feature
  • Recommendations for Installing, Sizing, Deploying, and Maintaining a BizTalk Server Solution  
  • Working with BizTalk AppFabric Connect
• Crescent
  • Crescent FAQ, Tips, and Tricks
  • Tutorial: Create Charts, Tiles, and Other Visualizations in Project Crescent
• Entity Framework
  • Entity Framework FAQ
• Exchange Server
  • Exchange Videos 
  • Configure a Static UDP Port for Push Notifications in an Exchange 2010 Environment
  • Exchange Server 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Office 365) Feature Comparison
  • How to Configure SSL Offloading in Exchange
• Forefront Identity Manager 
  • FIM 2010 Management Agents from Partners
  • FIM 2010 Software Solutions from Partners
  • FIM 2010 Wiki Articles
  • Understanding Deprovisioning in FIM
  • Understanding FIM Service Partitions
  • How to Use Workflows to Automate the Calculation and Notification of Initial Passwords
• Hyper-V
  • How to Build a Kiwi (Denali) Hyper-V Virtual Machine
  • Hyper-V Survival Guide
• Internet Explorer
  • Download and Install IE9
• IPv6
  • HomeGroup and IPv6 Troubleshooting Guide 
• Office 365
  • -
• Outlook
  • Outlook and OWA Version and Features
• PowerPivot
  • -
• PowerShell
  • - 
• SCM
  • - 
• SQL Azure
  • Overview of Microsoft SQL Azure Database
  • Retry Logic for Transient Failures in SQL Azure
  • Security Guidelines for SQL Azure
  • SQL Azure Content Index
  • SQL Azure Connection Management
  • SQL Azure Connectivity Troubleshooting Guide
  • SQL Azure FAQ
  • SQL Azure TechNet Wiki Articles Index
• SQL Server
  • Database Engine Permission Basics
  • SQL Server Columnstore Index FAQ
  • SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (Give Carla Sobotta credit)
  • SQL Server Samples Readme - Readme for Adventure Works DW Tabular Denali CTP3 
• TechNet/MSDN
  • Feature Requests for TechNet and MSDN Profiles and Social Platform Tools
  • How to Become an MVP or MCC
  • How to Get Hyperlinks in Your Microsoft Forum Signature
  • How to Sort a Forum Thread by Threaded Conversation
  • List of Fictional Companies Used in Microsoft Material/Documentation
  • Whether or Not You Should Self Propose an Answer in an MSDN or TechNet Forum
• Wiki
  • How to Use PowerShell to Create a Wiki Catalog Page       
  • Microsoft Translator Widget and Wiki
  • TechNet Wiki Featured Article Nominees (this page) 
  • Wiki Feature Requests
• Windows 7
  • Windows 7 Default Services
• Windows Azure
  • Deploying Claims-Aware Application to Windows Azure

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Past Featured Articles

NOTE: In addition to the list below, all the featured articles have been tagged with the special-use tag, "TechNet Wiki Featured Article". So rather than looking on this page to see if an article has been featured, you can check the bottom of the article to see if it has the tag. Or you can see the list of articles for the tag  "TechNet Wiki Featured Article". 

Here are the previously featured articles, divided by technology/product and listed alphabetically:

ADFS

•  AD FS 2.0 Content Map

BizTalk

• BizTalk + WF/WCF, Better Together

Cloud Computing

• Reference Architecture for Private Cloud

Crescent

• Project Crescent Overview
• Data Visualizations in Project Cresent

Exchange

• Exchange: ActiveSync Considerations When Using Windows Phone 7 Clients

FIM

• Understanding FIM Service Partitions 
• How to Shard with SQL Azure
• Forefront Identity Manager Resources

IPv6

• IPv6 Survival Guide
• IPv6 Test Lab for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

PowerPivot

• PowerPivot: DAX Survival Guide
• PowerPivot Overview 

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Survival Guide

SCM

• Microsoft Security Compliance Manager - Getting Started

SQL Azure

• Compare SQL Server with SQL Azure
• How to Shard with SQL Azure 
• Move Access Data to the Cloud
• SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide 
• SQL Azure Delivery Guide 

SQL Server

• New Spatial Features in SQL Server Code-Named "Denali"
• Select an Edition of SQL Server for Application Development  

Wiki

• How to Automatically Add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Your Wiki Article
• Wiki: Getting Started

Windows Server

• Windows Server Emergency Management Resources 
• IPv6 Test Lab for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 

Chronological List 

The most recently featured articles are listed at the top:

• 10/29/11 - Windows PowerShell Survival Guide
• 10/27/11 - PowerPivot: DAX Survival Guide
• 10/20/11 - Microsoft Security Compliance Manager - Getting Started
• 10/05/11 - Wiki: Getting Started
• 09/29/11 - Move Access Data to the Cloud
• 09/26/11 - Data Visualizations in Project Cresent
• 09/21/11 - Reference Architecture for Private Cloud
• 09/16/11 - BizTalk + WF/WCF, Better Together
• 09/05/11 - Forefront Identity Manager Resources
• 09/02/11 - Project Crescent Overview
• 08/31/11 - IPv6 Survival Guide
• 08/19/11 - How to Automatically Add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Your Wiki Article
• 08/15/11 - New Spatial Features in SQL Server Code-Named "Denali"
• 08/12/11 - Compare SQL Server with SQL Azure
• 08/08/11 - How to Shard with SQL Azure 
• 08/01/11 - SQL Azure Delivery Guide 
• 07/20/11 - Understanding FIM Service Partitions 
• 07/09/11 - Select an Edition of SQL Server for Application Development 
• 07/07/11 - SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide 
• 06/17/11 - AD FS 2.0 Content Map 
• IPv6 Test Lab for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7  
• Windows Server Emergency Management Resources 
• PowerPivot Overview 
• Exchange: ActiveSync Considerations When Using Windows Phone 7 Clients