マイクロソフトによるアジア地域における調査から、日本企業の課題が明らかに

Posted by: 岡部 一志
コーポレートコミュニケーション本部　本部長

マイクロソフトは、この度、アジアの 14 か国・地域 ※ の会社勤務のビジネスパーソンを対象に、企業が 2020 年に向けた「働く」の環境の準備に関して調査し、「The Microsoft Asia Workplace 2020 Study」（回答者数：日本の 313 人を含む 4,175 人、調査期間：2017 年 2 月~ 3 月）をまとめました。

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現在、クラウドサービスとモバイルデバイスの活用により、ビジネスパーソンが、いつでもどこでも柔軟に働ける環境が整い、新しい働き方が登場しています。一方で、企業は「働く」環境のデジタル化における社員のニーズに十分に応えられていない現実があります。2020 年に向けてこれからの時代は、企業にとって「働く」環境のデジタル化こそが非常に重要な取り組みとなるのではないでしょうか。

■「The Microsoft Asia Workplace 2020 Study」調査結果

アジアのビジネスパーソン 4,175 名に働いている場所に関して調査しました。その結果、「1 週間の内1日以上、オフィス外で働く」と回答したのがアジア全体で 71％、日本では 41％ という結果になりました。日本ではアジア地域全体から遅れているものの、社員の働き方に変化が起こっています。

一方で、その働き方の変化への、会社としての支援はどうでしょうか。

デジタルが本格化される以前から在籍する社員と、ソーシャルメディア時代からの新しい社員とのデジタルギャップの解消への経営者のコミットや、新しい働き方のためのデジタル化への会社の支援ではアジア全体では過半数が支援できていないと回答しました。日本においては、1 桁とさらに低い結果となり、アジア各国と比べても、経営者のマインド、会社の支援は大幅に遅れている結果となりました。

「働く」環境のデジタル化における課題を解決するために何が必要かに関して、日本のビジネスパーソンの回答を以下ご紹介します。

「働く」環境のデジタル化を進めるにあたり、チーム全体でのデジタル化への対応が必要になります。チーム全体でのデジタル化においては、デジタルスキルのトレーニング環境、柔軟な思考やデジタル化への変革を進めるマインドも重要です。

そのチームワークから、コラボレーションが生まれ、ビジネスへの成長と繋がります。「働く」環境のデジタル化からコラボレーションによるビジネスの成長へ繋げるためには、やはり経営者のマインドが非常に重要です。

一方で、コラボレーション向上のために社員の期待としては、最新のデバイスとツールです。これはプライベートのデジタルライフでは最新のデバイス、ツールを使用しているのに、会社支給のデバイス、ツールが古いものだという社員の不満を表しているものだと感じます。

2020 年に向けた新しいテクノロジへの期待は、AI による働き方改革の支援というものが上位を占めています。

本調査結果を受け、日本企業が「働く」環境のデジタル化を成功させる鍵として、以下の 2 点が重要だと考えます。

1. 会社が「働く」環境のデジタル化にコミットする
   経営者が、デジタルテクノロジの活用による具体的な成果を想定し、確信を持って、速やかに「働く」環 境のデジタル化を推進する。
2. 組織における人のデジタル化への対応
   テクノロジを導入するだけでなく、それを使いこなすデジタルスキルを備えた人材の育成と、テクノロジ を活用した目的の明確化が必要です。

新しい「働く」環境の構築には、デジタル化を活用する「人」、デジタル化によって変わる 働く「場所」、デジタル化を支える「テクノロジ」という非常に重要な 3 つの要素があります。

この 3 つの要素は過去 15 – 20 年間で大きな変化がありました。そして現在、企業の成長と、優秀な人材の確保のために、「人」、「場所」、「テクノロジ」を従来からのやり方から刷新し、新しい「働く」環境に向けて準備をする必要があります。

日本マイクロソフトは日本企業の皆様の働き方改革、そして「働く」環境のデジタル化に向けて、サポートさせていただきます。そして「働き方を改革」することに加えて、「働き方」で様々な「改革」をすすめていくことを推進し、お客様の働き方改革推進における信頼されるパートナーとして、最適な ICT ソリューションを提案させていただきます。

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Overview:

Currently there is no way to remove an App for Office add-in reference from Office 2016 (see below).

These add-in references are stored in the registry under a combination value that includes the add-in’s ID GUID.  This ID can be seen in both the add-in manifest and in the SharePoint Online application catalog (see below).

Workaround:

***Computer systems can be broken if registry edits are not performed properly, use this workaround at your own risk.  There are no guarantees or warrantees of any kind **

There are a list of Item(1,2,3,etc) values  under a key like this one:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice16.0ExcelWeb Extension User MRUADAL_z139970C84C528DEE9B3F50D634024065AABC863258DFEC9DB277DB4808974A9File MRU

The entry looks like this value name = “Item1”

value = “[F00000000][T01D2B8497B0ABB70][O00000000]*51c8c010-87f6-4b2a-b105-e6128bc8b66z SPCatalog https://hempele3.sharepoint.com/sites/apps   1.0.0.0”

Since the add-in reference you want to remove could be anywhere in this list, it could be complicated to find and removed.

I have created a sample program that will remove these add-in references:

usage: RemoveAddinRef <app excel word powerpoint> <GUID of addin>
example: RemoveAddinRef excel 51c8c010-87f6-4b2a-b105-e6128bc8b66f

The GUID can be obtained from the “Apps for Office” catalog that can be found in the SharePoint admin tools for Office 365.

The .exe and Visual Studio source code is attached to this blog post.  Project Download zip

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For the last few months, we have been migrating group management out of Intune and into Azure Active Directory. This change will bring us some exciting new features, but it also means we have to make some changes to existing features that use Intune groups, like the Corporate Device Enrollment profile.In this post, I’ll share more detail on what’s changing and then what you’ll want to do check on post-migration to ensure you understand how automatic grouping will work going forward.

Automatic Grouping Before You Get Migrated

Let’s say you have a bunch of iOS devices purchased by your organization, and you want to pre-enroll them using the Apple Device Enrollment Program or the Apple Configurator tool. During enrollment, you want all of these iOS devices to configured the same way. In the Intune classic console, you can create a Corporate Device Enrollment profile under Policy->Corporate Device Enrollment:

Corporate Device Enrollment Profile

If you want all of these devices to belong to the same Intune group, you can set that under the Corporate Device Enrollment Profile, using the setting “Assign devices to the following group”:

Automatic grouping before migration

This optional setting made it easy for you to get all those devices into the correct Intune device group automatically. As new devices enroll, you can deploy policy, apps, and terms and conditions consistently.

Automatic Grouping After You Get Migrated

After we have moved your Intune groups to Azure AD, you won’t have the option to “Assign devices to the following group” because that would be looking for an Intune group.

Automatic grouping after migration

We’ll make sure any existing Corporate Device Enrollment profiles still give you the same result, but you’ll configure new profiles a bit differently, so they work with Azure AD groups.

Working with New Profiles and Groups

If you want a new Corporate Device Enrollment profile, go ahead and create it either in the Intune classic portal, or in the Intune on Azure portal; in either case, you won’t designate the group in the profile anymore.

If you want corporate iOS devices to end up in a new group, you’ll need to create it in Azure AD. You can go to http://portal.azure.com , click Microsoft Intune, and then click Groups.

(Even though the breadcrumbs at the top say Microsoft Intune, if you look under Users and Groups, it tells you that you are really in Azure Active Directory.)

Create a new Azure AD group with the Membership type = Dynamic Device.

And add a simple query rule so it will find something that matches your enrollmentProfileName.

This group will now automatically collect all devices as they enroll, just as before.

Managing Existing Profiles and Groups

If you already had Corporate Device Enrollment profiles, they will still work. The migration process will automatically create dynamic versions of existing groups so you don’t need to do any of the steps above for existing profiles. Actually, the migration process creates two groups, one to account for any existing devices and one to handle any newly enrolled devices.

Migration creates a dynamic AAD device group for each profile. The name of the group is based on the Corporate Device Enrollment profile’s name, for example, “EnrollmentProfile: Kiosk Devices”, and the membership criterion makes enrollmentProfileName equal to the existing enrollment profile name. Any new devices that enroll using this profile are automatically added to this dynamic group.

The dynamic group won’t capture any devices that have already enrolled, so the migration process also creates a static or “assigned” membership AAD group with the same name as your old Intune device group, for example, “CP Kiosk”. The static group contains all the devices in your Intune group at the time of migration. The static group also contains the dynamic group as a nested group. In this example, they dynamic group EnrollmentProfile: Kiosk Devices would be a member of the assigned group CP Kiosk.

During the migration process, any policies, terms and conditions, or apps you had targeted at your Intune enrollment group are re-targeted to the static group. This means all existing groups members get the policy (because they are in the static, parent group) and all newly enrolled devices get the policy (because they are in the dynamic, child group.)

Groups created during migration

We hope this post was helpful in describing the changes you will see in your device enrollment profiles after your account is migrated to the new Intune on Azure experience.

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A few weeks ago I made several posts about Azure Active Directory Preview in the Azure Portal, and this week it’s time to start looking at some of the Intune preview capabilities in the Azure Portal. Today I’ll start with Windows Information Protection, which has moved into the Intune Mobile Application Management blade.

Previously this is where the Platform choices (highlighted above) only showed iOS and Android, but now we have Windows 10 making a long overdue appearance. Once I fill out the Name and Description I choose to Add apps.

Add Apps provides the option of adding Recommended Apps as one of the options, which you can see is a collection of Microsoft Desktop and Store apps.

Once the Recommended Apps have been added (you don’t need to select them, or select them all), you can then choose to customise the app list further by clicking Add apps.

Now we can add Store apps.

And Desktop apps.

We can also choose to Import apps via AppLocker XML files.

We can also Add apps that are exempt.

Required setting provides
options
that should look familiar if you have configured WIP from the Silverlight based classic Intune portal.

The first page of Configure advanced settings gives the ability to start identifying the trusted network boundaries, and how Data protection should be enforced.

You can add the Name and Value of several identified boundaries

Enabling Windows Hello for Business as a sign in method is also configured here.

Finally we need to deploy this, so we need to choose Add user group and then we can target the users we want the policy to apply to.

2020 年に開催される東京オリンピックでは、1 日 92 万人程度の観光客が東京を訪れると予測されています。また、同年に日本を訪れる外国人観光客は 2,000万人とも4,000 万人ともいわれれており、日本はますます国際化していくと同時に、オリンピック期間中は都内の交通機関の大混雑が予想され、インフラ整備と同時にこの機会に定時通勤をする働き方から、テレワークも含めた柔軟な働き方への変革を、レガシーの一つとして残そうという動きが政府主導で行われ始めています。2012 年のロンドンオリンピックでも、交通混雑によってロンドン市内での移動に支障が生じるとの予測から、市内の企業の約8割がテレワークを導入したという成功事例があり、日本における働き方改革のきっかけとして注目が集まっています。

政府の働き方改革施策に日本マイクロソフトも賛同します

日本マイクロソフトもこの動きに賛同して、パートナー様と一緒に「働き方ムーブメント」を起こし、貢献していく予定です。7 月より「働き方改革推進会社ネットワーク」を継続的な取り組みとして実施していき、総務省の「2020年に向けたテレワーク国民運動プロジェクト」や東京都の「TOKYO 働き方改革宣言企業」「快適通勤ムーブメント」などの政府・自治体の取り組みにも参画していきます。

また、日本マイクロソフト自身の働き方改革における経験・ノウハウ、関連製品・サービス・テクノロジの情報を順次共有するとともに、参加する会社同士のビジネス連携機会の創出も目指します。本年6月初旬からの登録開始を目指しており、今後詳細の発表を予定しています。

両方の施策とも、詳細が決まりましたら告知をいたしますので、ご賛同お待ちしております。

2020 年に向けての働き方改革で後れを取る日本の現状を支援します

一方、マイクロソフトが日本を含むアジア 14 の国と地域で実施した「Microsoft Asia Workplace 2020 Study」によると、日本でも社員の働き方に変化が起こっているものの、アジア全体と比べて遅れており、、経営者のマインド、会社の支援も大幅に遅れているという結果となりました。コラボレーション向上のために社員の期待としては、最新のデバイスとツールですが、プライベートで利用している最新のツールとデバイスと比べて会社支給のデバイス、ツールが古いものだという不満もうかがえます。

新しい「働く」環境の構築には、デジタル化を活用する「人」、デジタル化によって変わる 働く「場所」、デジタル化を支える「テクノロジ」という非常に重要な 3 つの要素があります。この 3 つの要素は過去 15 – 20 年間で大きな変化がありました。そして現在、企業の成長と、優秀な人材の確保のために、「人」、「場所」、「テクノロジ」を従来からのやり方から刷新し、デジタル化時代の準備をする必要があります。日本マイクロソフトはパートナー企業の皆様とともに、日本企業の皆様の働き方改革、そして「働く」環境のデジタル化に向けて、サポートしていきますので、パートナー企業の皆様のご支援を引き続きよろしくお願いいたします。

関連情報

• 働き方改革への取り組み：日本マイクロソフト　働き方改革ムーブメントについて
• 日本企業は、2020 年に向けて「働く」環境のデジタル化の準備はできているか？
• 日本における「デジタルトランスフォーメーション」推進の重要性について
• 働き方改革の質の向上を応援する「MyAnalytics」
• Office 365モダンワークスタイル
• 日本のビジネスシーンに求められる働き方の近代化
• 新技術導入を米国並みに！働き方を変えて生産性を高めるための８つの習慣
• その他のテレワーク導入事例
• 新しい職場のヒント (1) 日本企業にとって喫緊の課題となった「働き方改革」、どこから手を付ける?
• 新しい職場のヒント (2) 働き方改革では社内コミュニケーションのあり方も検討課題に

こんにちは、Windows プラットフォーム サポート大川です。

今回は VSS Hardware Provider と VSS を利用したバックアップが失敗するお話です。

現在ご利用いただいている環境の中に外部ストレージの機能を利用したバックアップを
実施している環境があるかと思います。

この外部ストレージのバックアップ機能に Windows で提供している VSS と連携した
バックアップ機能もあります。VSS によりデータの静止点を作成し、その静止点のデータを
ストレージの機能でバックアップする機能です。

VSS とストレージの機能を連携するため、各ストレージ ベンダ様から VSS Hardware Provider
と呼ばれるモジュールが提供されています。この VSS Hardware Provider と VSS を利用した
バックアップがファイル システムの不具合により失敗してしまう場合があります。

以下に詳細を記載いたします。

1. 現象
———————————————————————————
VSS Hardware Provider を使用して VSS スナップショットを作成すると、
LUN の無効化処理に失敗し、バックアップ処理が失敗する場合があります。

また、本事象は NTFS でフォーマットされたボリュームにおいて発生しますが、
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) を対象としたバックアップ処理で発生しやすいことが確認
できています。

2. 原因
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ファイル システムの TxF (Transactional NTFS) リソースマネージャの内部処理が
正しく行われないために発生します。

バックアップ処理の中で、VSS スナップショット ボリュームに対するロック処理や
オフライン処理などの制御を行いますが、その過程において TxF リソースマネージャの
内部処理が不正であるため、正しい制御が行えず、バックアップが失敗します。

3. 解決策
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この問題を解決するための修正プログラムを含んだロールアップ プログラムが提供されています。
以下を適用することにより事象が改善するかご確認いただければと存じます。

文書番号 : 4015550
タイトル : April 18, 2017—KB4015553 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4015553/windows-8-1-windows-server-2012-r2-update-kb4015553

現時点では Windows Server 2012 R2 のみですが、Windows Server 2016 についても今後提供予定です。

※Windows Server 2016 の修正プログラムについては 2017 年 6 月頃を予定しています。
(2017 年 4 月時点)

本ブログが少しでも皆様のお役に立てば幸いです。

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在概觀中點選警示管理的磚後，可以看到畫面顯示出作用中的警示。您可以看到重大警示、警告警示、和這些警示的來源，並更深入的檢視它們。此儀表板顯示了詳細的資訊，並且能快速收集多個不同系統的警示並做整合。

檢視重大警示

在下圖範例中，有291個重大警示，其中可以看到有288個警示是關於 High CPU：

接著點選重大警示，畫面上會顯示出重大警示的種類和數量。您可以點選任何一個想詳細查看的警示，就能看到警世的個別事件。此範例點選 High CPU：

點選特定種類警示後，可以看到所有此種類警示的事件，您可以在點選[+]顯示較多，來查看詳細資訊：

深入查看警告

在下圖範例中可以看到有17個警告警示與 Operations Manager Failed to Access the Windows Event Log 有關。要詳細查看警示內容，點選 Operations Manager Failed to Access the Windows Event Log，便會自動搜尋出所有此警示的事件，可以再點選[+]顯示較多查看詳細資訊，並利用 Alert Description 瞭解警示內容來除錯：

Many of you will have been waiting for the official release date of the Windows 10 Creators Update last week and now that it is launched the best place to get an overview of the new features is the official Windows Blog.

You can read the post introducing Creators Update here.

For a visual overview, here is a good video clip:

Some of the features that really stand out for me are:

• 3D Paint – the ease of building out 3D apps in Creators Update is a neat feature with plenty of real world application, especially in education.
• Mixed Reality – the announcement of lower-cost devices that will support mixed reality is exciting as it means more students can develop in this space without the cost of a HoloLens headset.
• Beam Game Broadcasting – for the gamers amongst us, you can now easily stream your games in real time to the web for others to follow along with – no need for third party tools.
• Updates to the Edge Browser, including better tab management and preview options, default support of PDF and eBook reading is now a feature as well.
• Mini View Feature – an “always on top” frame allowing you to keep an eye on a critical app, skype call, or browser window, whilst working in another window at the same time.
• A whole range of new security updates to keep your device safe.

Read the blog overview here.

There are a range of different ways to get Windows 10 Creators Update, from the blog link above:

You can get the Creators Update in a few different ways. If you already have a Windows 10 PC and have automatic updates enabled, the update will be delivered to you when it’s ready. If you are an advanced user and would like to get the update manually, visit this blog post to learn how to get the Creators Update.

So go get started creating and leave comments with your experience below.

Today’s topic is going to be getting rid of unused groups in the forest.  Over the last few years I’m seeing a growing trend were administrators or identity groups are creating groups that are never used.  Once these groups are created it seems impossible to get these groups removed due to the unknown.  These unknowns are several things like; it might be used just empty, or we have no idea what is using it.  As part of my continue discussions I started focusing on low hanging fruit (groups).  To solve this I started out focusing on if memberof and members are empty and the when change was older than x it must be unused.  This seems logical but turns out it was not, I then expanded my search to include if msDS-ReplValueMetaData is null and if the whencreated is older than x.  There are several topics around leveraging msDS-ReplValueMetaData and what is it used for, in short this is an attribute that contains all of the replication metadata around linked values (Use PowerShell and Repadmin to Check for Updates to High Privileged Groups). If the attribute is empty more than likely the group has never had any direct members added to it.  I have found that at least a fourth of all groups in most Active Directory environments fall into this category.

Here is the script I threw together.

$_default_log = $env:userprofile + 'Documentsnever_used_ad_group_age.csv'

If ($(Try { Test-Path $_default_log} Catch { $false })){Remove-Item $_default_log -force}

(get-adforest).domains | foreach {$_domain = $_

    get-adgroup -LDAPFilter "(&(!(member=*))(!(memberof=*)))" -Properties "msDS-ReplValueMetaData",whencreated,groupscope,groupcategory -server $_domain | `

        where {(!($_."msDS-ReplValueMetaData"))} | select `

        @{name='Domain';expression={$_domain}},name,samaccountname,groupcategory,groupscope,whencreated,`

        @{name='AgeinDays';expression={(new-TimeSpan($($_.whencreated)) $(Get-Date)).days}},isCriticalSystemObject,distinguishedname,`

        @{name='ParentOU';expression={$($_.distinguishedname -split '(?<![\]),')[1..$($($_.distinguishedname -split '(?<![\]),').Count-1)] -join ','}} | `

        export-csv $_default_log -Append -NoTypeInformation

}

write-host "Report Can be found here $_default_log"

This will run through all the domains in a forest.

link to Technet gallery

Once the script is complete open it in excel and pivot on the data of your choice.  Here is some examples on how I would

Select the data

select Insert Pivot Table, make the pivot table fields look like the following:

Should have a nice little view like this

*Consider filtering out OU’s or Containers like Builtin and Users. 

Make the Pivot Table Fields look like this

A nice view of each ou and the age and count of groups should be displayed.

Now that you have this data hopefully it will be enough to clean out some of the bloat in Active Directory. In a next blog post we will tackle getting the last change from the msDS-ReplValueMetaData to figure out the last time an object was added or removed.  Hope you find this useful and have a good day.

-Chad

All the votes are in! 

And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, March 2017 !!!!

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.

Starting this month you will notice some articles are marked as failing to meet our minimum bar for quality or content.

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.

Agustín Mántaras

BizTalk: PowerShell script to provide high availability for single host instances (FTP,POP3…)

TGN: “Nice work Agustin! Keep it up!” Ed Price: “Agustin, great job on the formatting! The images in the introduction help bring it to life!” Abhishek Kumar: “Good article and really loved reading it . Will wait for our next read !! keep going” JS: “Tidy solution to the NLB/Clustering problem.”

Priyaranjan KS

Install And Configure Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 For SharePoint Server 2016

Ed Price: “Wow! The formatting is so clean! Great to have the Reference and See Also links! This is very descriptive, great use of images, and glad to see the PowerShell!” Maor Bracha: “Very nice article, shedding some light on this taunting feature. Kudos for the great documentation, love it!”

	Abhishek Kumar	Secure Logic App endpoint with API Management	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “Good write up.” Gaurav Kumar Arora: “Nice , informative and in-depth article. Grammar need attention.” Lasse Wedø: “Think this was a good article” Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Nicely written. Good use of Images. Excellent.” Eric Berg: “Thank you. Good Work!” Kia Zhi Tang: “Nice Walkthrough Wiki article. It will great to include a Reference section for external links and a See Also section should be other related Wiki articles as you have mentioned TechNet Wiki has a lot of BizTalk related articles.”
	Priyaranjan KS	Azure Automation : Create and Invoke Azure Runbook using Webhooks from Client Applications	Lasse Wedø: “Think this was a good article with real value. Could possibly have a better high-level introduction.” Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Very informative article. Superbly written.” Eric Berg: “Thank you for this great contribution. Nice!” Kia Zhi Tang: “Nice Walkthrough Wiki article with good TOC and Reference section. It will be great to include See Also section with other similar related Wiki articles.” Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “Good topic, but too many images and very little plain-text description. Please consider more text for future posts.” Gaurav Kumar Arora: “Very detailed article, nice use of images.”
	Alexandro Prado	Azure: Geographical Comparison Between Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP (Late 2016)	Kia Zhi Tang: “Very informative Wiki for Public Cloud industry. Hope to see it constantly updated.” Gaurav Kumar Arora: “Impressive comparison, I found Azure on the top.” Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Very informative article. Excellent.” Eric Berg: “Thank you guys. Good work and nice comparison” Lasse Wedø: “A nice comparison, but I can’t see it bringing any new value”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Azure LogicApp Debatching: Splitting Messages and process them separately by Baran Mano
  Eric Berg: “Thank you. Great article.”
  Lasse Wedø: “Could use a better intro and description”
  Kia Zhi Tang: “Nice Wiki article. It will be great to have a Reference section of external LogicApp documentations and a See Also section that has other LogicApp Wiki articles.”
  Gaurav Kumar Arora: “Nice article, need to take of formatting.”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Nicely written article. Good use of images. Please include references and summery next time.”
• Azure Solution: Problems with sharing data in China? Use Azure way to fix this by Digvijay S Rajawat
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Good article. Include references, summery and a see also section next time.”
  Eric Berg: “Thank you for this article”
  Kia Zhi Tang: “Try drafting Wiki article in third person view instead of first person view. Wiki is not a blog and it will be good to have factual Reference section and See Also section on related Wiki articles.”
• Create a Azure Media Services Application by Sjoukje Zaal
  Kia Zhi Tang: “Good effort for sharing this Wiki article. It will be great if it includes Requirement section, Conclusion/Summary section, Reference section for external documentation links and See Also section of other related Wiki articles.”
  Gaurav Kumar Arora: “Concise and worthwhile write up”
  Lasse Wedø: “A walk through, but I can’t see it bringing any new value”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Good article. Would have added see also and references sections.”
  Eric Berg: “Thank you. For those with less experience with AMS a bit more description of the code would be great”
• Create a Azure Media Services Account by Sjoukje Zaal
  Kia Zhi Tang: “Good effort for sharing this Wiki article. It will be great if it includes Conclusion/Summary section, Reference section for external documentation links and See Also section of other related Wiki articles.”
  Lasse Wedø: “A walk through, but I can’t see it bringing any new value”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Simple article. Could have provided see also and references.”
  Eric Berg: “Thank you”

	Sandeep Shekhawat	ASP.NET Core: In-Memory Caching	Ed Price: “Amazing! I love the way you break down the code and explain it!” Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Great article. Nicely organised and well presented with good use of images.”
	RajeeshMenoth	Building ASP.NET Core MVC Application Using EF Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0	Ed Price: “Great job breaking down each section. I love the use of cross-linking articles! A wealth of Reference, download, and See Also links!” Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Great article. Nicely organised and well presented with good use of images.”
	Peter Geelen	O365: Admin password recovery options	Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Simple article. Nicely written.” Ed Price: “Short and sweet. Important scenario and great solution!”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Node.js With Visual Studio 2017 by Sandeep Shekhawat
  Lasse Wedø: “The Info was ok, good use some work on structure and body”
  Ed Price: “Clear introduction and great steps! Very well broken down. Good to have the References. A See Also section (with Wiki links) would also be good. Great article!”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “As always, nicely structured.”
• Send Email Using ASP.NET CORE 1.1 With MailKit In Visual Studio 2017 by RajeeshMenoth
  Ed Price: “Great breakdown of the information! You’ve got a little bit of everything in here! Also, another home run in Reference, Downloads, and See Also links!”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Nicely written with good graphical interpretation.”
• Visual Studio 2017 – New Features And Installation by RajeeshMenoth
  Ed Price: “This is great. I love all the details you drill into on this feature explanation! Sometimes we need to start with the basics when we’re learning about the latest Visual Studio version, so I’m glad to see this article!”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Very valuable insights. Nicely organised and well presented with good use of images.”
  Lasse Wedø: “This information is just a copy of other official information”
• Exchange Activation Preferences and Lag copies are you getting it right? And why it matters… by Joshua Bines
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Good article. Use of references and see also section could have improved it.”
  Lasse Wedø: “Although the info is good, the article could use a little work on structure and introduction”
  Ed Price: “Great level of details! I love this line: “If in doubt (crossed out) USE the Exchange Calculator!!” – This article could benefit from headers and a TOC, as well as References and See Also links at the bottom. Great submission!”
• Getting Started CRUD Operation with AngularJS in MVC by Tarun Kumar Sharma
  Lasse Wedø: “Article starts off good, but at the end it’s just a bunch of code? Would like more explanations.”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam: “Good Article.”
  Ed Price: “Great use of images! It could benefit from tighter code formatting and References links.”

	Priyaranjan KS	SharePoint Framework : Exploring the New Development Model	John Naguib: “Well Done, excellent job on writing about the new dev model” Ed Price: “Wow. This is incredibly exhaustive and detailed! Fantastic job on this article! Great to have the References links at the bottom. It could use See Also links to other Wiki articles.” Malin De Silva: “Simply awesome. Nice and detailed explanations.” Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “great article, really nice useful work”
	Kaviya	Enable Custom Script In SharePoint Online	Ed Price: “Incredibly helpful scenario! It could benefit from See Also and References sections.” Malin De Silva: “Very helpful article. Nice explanation.” John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
	Waqas Sarwar	SharePoint 2016 Central Admin – System Settings – Manage User Solutions	Ed Price: “Love the explanation and images! Could benefit from See Also and References.” Malin De Silva: “Good article.” John Naguib: “well done, thanks”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint Web site Keep on Prompting for credentials by Melick
  John Naguib: “Great tip, thanks a lot”
  Ed Price: “Great topic, breakdown, and images! It could benefit from See Also and References sections.”
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “nice and good to know information type of article”
  Malin De Silva: “Excellent article. Would appreciate if more explanation comes in.”
• Managed Navigation for SharePoint Site by Kaviya
  Ed Price: “Like the explanation section. Missing References and See Also. Good job on this article!”
  Malin De Silva: “Good explanation. Would like more content on limitations section.”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
• SharePoint 2013/2016: Create report on Access Requests using CSOM and Powershell by Arleta Wanat
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “Usefull, but I will merge this with another parts to make it little bit bigger”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
  Ed Price: “Short and Sweet. Great to have the See Also links! Great scenario and article!”
  Malin De Silva: “Nice explanation.”
• Manage User Profiles In SharePoint Online by Kaviya
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
  Ed Price: “Great use of images and good details on the steps. Could use the References and See Also sections.”
  Malin De Silva: “Good article. More content along with the images would be great.”
• SharePoint 2013 – How to Adapt your Customizations in MDS Environment by Rakhi Jain
  John Naguib: “Excellent, nice blog”
  Ed Price: “Great detail on the introduction and good code comments! Could use Summary, References, and See Also sections.”
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “nice article, also useful a lot, because there are not so many articles related to minimal download strategy.”
  Malin De Silva: “Good article.”
• Manually Re-Index The List In SharePoint by Kaviya
  Malin De Silva: “Nice explanation.”
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “nice one, I will change the type of highlights from the manual one to more nice one, this yellow bars made by hand isn’t looking professional”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
  Ed Price: “Great steps! Could use the References and See Also sections.”
• Working with SharePoint Report Server using URL parameters in SSRS 2008/2012 in SharePoint Mode – Part One by Melick
  Ed Price: “Good table. Could use headers, more of a breakdown, as well as References and See Also sections. Great topic!”
  Malin De Silva: “Good article. Nice explanation.”
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “short, but good”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
• SharePoint 2016 Central Admin – Security – Manage Web Part Security by Waqas Sarwar
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “nice smooth article. good looking pictures with descriptions, like that”
  Malin De Silva: “Great details. Awesome explanations.”
  Ed Price: “Good details. Great to have the images. It could benefit from See Also and References sections.”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
• Working with SharePoint Report Server 2012 using URL parameters in SSRS 2008/2012 in SharePoint Integrated Mode – Part Two by Melick
  Malin De Silva: “Useful information explained simply.”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “short, but good”
  Ed Price: “Good table. Good job on this. It this article a duplicate entry? I think the link goes to a different article that’s already on the list here.”
• List view threshold (5000 items) enforced by the administrator by Melick
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “standard issue, always good to mention the fix, highlights should be better made, not by hand but with some rectangular”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”
  Ed Price: “Great job on the Resolution and Recommendation! It could benefit from See Also and References sections.”
  Malin De Silva: “Very useful article”
• SharePoint 2013/2010 Troubleshooting: Exception HRESULT: 0x80131904 by Melick
  Roman Nedzelsky, MVP: “good article, I always welcome some troubleshooting articles, the pictures should be framed, some other esthetic things, but article is good”
  Ed Price: “Fantastic to have this content. Thanks!”
  Malin De Silva: “Nice and very useful information.”
  John Naguib: “well done, thanks”

	Nonki Takahashi	Small Basic: Shapes Converter to PowerPoint VBA	SYEDSHANU: “Great and Useful one ,Thank you for sharing.” Ed Price: “I love the cross-product story here! From Small Basic to PowerPoint VBA. That’s fantastic!”
	Nonki Takahashi	Small Basic Sample: Math.Sin, Math.Cos and Math.ArcTan	SYEDSHANU: “Simple and Useful code for Mathematics calculation for Small Basic program.Nice to see with sample code.” Ed Price: “Fantastic. Great snippets! Solid “See Also” section at the end!”
	Nonki Takahashi	Small Basic Sample: File Path	DEVA: “” SYEDSHANU: “Useful code,Code part explanation is needed.” Ed Price: “Great sample!”

	Priyaranjan KS	Create Power BI Reports from JSON Data Exposed by REST Service	Visakh16: “A nice article with images to explain how JSON data can be used as a source in Power BI” Tomaž Kaštrun: “A walk through of using JSON data in Power BI.”
	Priyaranjan KS	Generate Office 365 Health Reports Using Power BI and Office 365 Monitor	Visakh16: “A simple article on how office 365 reports can be generated and can be used for analysis” Tomaž Kaštrun: “Missing some background information. It is just a connecting reports to Power BI and that’s about it.”
	Santhakumar Munuswamy	Getting Started with SSRS 2016 – Part 4	Visakh16: “A simple walk through of shared data source creation. Though the title says SSRS 2016 based on functionality there’s nothing specific to 2016 being discussed here” Tomaž Kaštrun: “Getting started guide through article to start working with SSRS; Big missing on the configuration of SSRS (under “how to run a report”); you can present SSRS with the list of files.”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Getting Started with SSRS 2016 – Part 5 by Santhakumar Munuswamy
  Tomaž Kaštrun: “Getting started guide through article to start working with SSRS”
  Visakh16: “Another simple one on creating a report using a wizard. Though the title says SSRS 2016 based on functionality there’s nothing specific to 2016 being discussed here.”

Priyaranjan KS

Working With SQL Server R Services And R Scripts In SQL Server 2016

Ed Price: “That’s an incredible amount of depth you put in this article! I love the “Return to Top” links!” Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): “Great step-by-step getting started tutorial. Well written and it is explained well. The table uses for the “Demo Walkthrough” presented as image and I did not notice any DDL+DML queries.” Tomaž Kaštrun: “Walk through how to install R Services and using extended procedure with R.SQL Server Launchpad is dependent on SQL Server, so restarting SQL Server service is enough. Little or no R code.”

	Simon Dettling	Wrapping Mac OS X Apps using CMAppUtil	Eric Berg: “Thank you!” Adam Fowler: “Useful example which should apply to most apps on OS X.” Joseph Moody: “Great write up! I love the step by step format.” Ed Price: “In the comments, there are some great suggestions and praises from .paul. ‘Good use of code and imagery. Could benefit from more navigational links.’ “
	Jeff Venuto	Add User Input to Description Field for Incidents from the Portal	Joseph Moody: “Very useful and practical!” Ed Price: “Great formatting. Solid explanations. The birds eye view diagram at the top is very helpful! It could benefit from a TOC, headers, as well as References and See Also sections at the end. Great content!” Eric Berg: “good work. Thanks” Adam Fowler: “I can see this being very useful, would be good to see the end result for the user too.”
	sridhar vishwanatham	SCOM Alert Param Finder	Ed Price: “Very clean and clear! Could benefit from Headers, a TOC, Summary, References, and See Also (links to Wiki articles) sections at the end. Good scenario!” Eric Berg: “Thank you” Adam Fowler: “Would like to see an example, but can see it’s usefulness. Good to see support for older SCOM versions too.” Joseph Moody: “Nice explanation for this tool – I especially enjoyed how you explained the script input.”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Manually installing the Parallels Mac Management Agent for Configuration Manager by Simon Dettling
  Adam Fowler: “Great clear guide with all relevant screenshots, and useful for smaller companies that can’t justify or don’t have the time to set up PKI infrastructure.”
  Joseph Moody: “Keep up the great work, Simon! Looking forward to seeing additional articles from you.”
  Ed Price: “Good intro and use of images. Could benefit from Summary, References, and See Also (links to Wiki articles) sections at the end.”
  Eric Berg: “Thank you for your contribution. Well done”

	Priyaranjan KS	Implement Column Level Encryption/Decryption In SQL Server 2016	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “Good example usage of the service.” Visakh16: “Good explanation of the encryption feature. This is available in earlier versions too and is not something specific to 2016” Tomaž Kaštrun: “Basic introduction.” Diederik Krols: “Very well explained. Thanks!” Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): “Very nice article with good example, but the content is not related to SQL Server 2016 specifically. I think there was no place to mention “view”, which does not related to Encryption, but there was a place to mention “Always Encrypted”, which gives us column level encryption” Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines. Great example for the demo. More references would help.”
	Sachin P	T-SQL: Common Table Expression(CTE)	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “” Visakh16: “Good presentation of the topic. Though the content is nothing new, the flow of the presentation with good complimentary images is good.” Tomaž Kaštrun: “Basic introduction to CTE for T-SQL.” Diederik Krols: “Nice introduction to one of my favorite SQL constructs.” Ronen Ariely (aka pituach): “Nice article which brings clear explanation.” Richard Mueller: “A good topic with great uses. A See Also section would help.”

Priyaranjan KS

Create Business Intelligence Excel Charts Using VBA And Upload it To SharePoint

SYEDSHANU: “Nice and useful post,Good to see explanation with images.Thank you for sharing” Diederik Krols: “Very well explained. Thank you.” Richard Mueller: “Fantastic images. And a great table. We need references and a See Also section.”

	SYED SHANU	ASP.NET Core,Angular2 CRUD with Animation using Template Pack, WEB API and EF 1.0.1	Diederik Krols: “Well done, I’m impressed.” Carmelo La Monica: “Very nice and detailed topic in all steps. Congrats!” Khanna Gaurav: “Great work, especially the animation part.” Jaliya Udagedara: “Great article with step by step explanation. Nice!” Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “Another masterpiece; but Shanu, deserves a lot of formatting as the text is not standard based, changes the font after every paragraph. ;-)”
	Ehsan Sajjad	GridView with Server Side Filtering, Sorting and Paging in ASP.NET MVC 5	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “A great post, Ehsan! I was amazed by your use of formatting options. Suggestion: Crop images to fit the size.” Diederik Krols: “Great choice of topic. Well explained.Thanks.” Carmelo La Monica: “Good article and explained good in all parts.” Khanna Gaurav: “An interesting Grid Option for MVC” Jaliya Udagedara: “Good content. Kind reminder, wikis are not blog posts.”
	Sibeesh Venu	Visual Studio: MVC CRUD Actions Using Knockout JS	Khanna Gaurav: “Good explanation” Jaliya Udagedara: “If you are new to Knockout.js, this article should help you get started.” Carmelo La Monica: “” Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “Nice use of the CRUD abbreviations, Sibeesh. :D” Diederik Krols: “Nice read, thanks. May I suggest to shrink the SQL statements at the beginning (most of the settings are default)?”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• C# : Why Use Property by Sandeep Shekhawat
  Carmelo La Monica: “Nice article. This is very important for how to use all type of property. Good work.”
  Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “Good one, Sandeep!”
  Diederik Krols: “Well elaborated.”
  Jaliya Udagedara: “Good article about Properties in C#.”
  Khanna Gaurav: “Nice article”
• C# 7 : Tuple by Sandeep Shekhawat
  Diederik Krols: “Interesting read. Thanks.”
  Jaliya Udagedara: “Good introduction to Tuples in C# 7.”
  Khanna Gaurav: “Very useful article”
• Getting Started with Visual Studio Community 2017 by Santhakumar Munuswamy
  Diederik Krols: “Thanks.”
• C# 7 : Func, Action And Local Function by Sandeep Shekhawat
  Diederik Krols: “Great introduction.Thanks.”
  Khanna Gaurav: “Nicely explained”
  Jaliya Udagedara: “Good article, just to clarify Func and Action delegates were introduced with .NET 3.5.”
• Modify, Repair, And Uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Using Visual Studio Installer by M.Vignesh
  Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “I think this is a much needed article nowadays.”
  Diederik Krols: “Thanks.”

Kamlesh Kumar

Wiki Ninja Top Contributors: Who Has What Ranking

Kia Zhi Tang: “Cool informative Wiki. Thank you for the great work.” SYEDSHANU: “Very useful post,Nice share Kamlesh.” Ed Price: “Wow, this is really awesome! I can see that Richard and Peter have me beat! =^)” Richard Mueller: “A great compilation. Thanks for putting this together. It is very much appreciated.”

	Priyaranjan KS	Consume REST Service From PowerShell And Update The JSON Data To SQL Server Table	Maor Bracha: “Well written and documented. I like the idea of using PowerShell for more than “just” Microsoft infrastructure management.” Ed Price: “Amazing article with great formatting! It could benefit from References and See Also sections at the end. I love the code formatting and use of images!” Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines. Well written with good images.” Richard Mueller: “Good use of Wiki guidelines. Well written with good images.” Adam Fowler: “Images and example is great, should help people understand this end to end.”
	Arleta Wanat	Approve or decline Access Requests in SharePoint 2013/2016 using Powershell and CSOM	Adam Fowler: “Big fan of solutions that help with automation, including having a bulk option. Very clear and helpful.” Richard Mueller: “Well done. Good example displays.” Richard Mueller: “Well done. Good example displays.” Ed Price: “Arleta, great job on this article! I love that there’s a Polish version. That’s awesome!” Maor Bracha: “Both this and “Remove users” post entered in this competition are a good read for admins starting their journey in SharePoint Online.”
	sridhar vishwanatha	Simple Xpath Generator with powershell	Ed Price: “Very clean and clear! Could benefit from Summary, References, and See Also (links to Wiki articles) sections at the end. Good scenario!” Adam Fowler: “I can see a lot of use cases for this!” Richard Mueller: “Great to know how to do this.” Richard Mueller: “Great to know how to do this.”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• SharePoint Online: Remove user from site groups using Powershell by Arleta Wanat
  Adam Fowler: “Simple and useful, just needs to be cleaned up to a standard shared PowerShell script”
  Richard Mueller: “Useful examples.”
  Ed Price: “Great code and formatting! Great to have a Polish version of this article. Good prerequisites section!”
• Powershell: Script to replace credentials to Windows Services by Agustín Mántaras
  Maor Bracha: “Simple tool to make system admins day easier. Tip: try implementing “Get-Credential” for a more secure method of passing admin passwords ;)”
  Ed Price: “Great examples, and it’s great to have the download! It could benefit from Summary, References, and See Also (links to Wiki articles) sections at the end.”
  Richard Mueller: “Very useful. I would like to see at least some of the code and have it explained.”
  Adam Fowler: “Might be worth mentioning any security concerns around this, but great idea and really like the clear coloured output!”
• SCOM Alert Param Finder  by sridhar vishwanatham
  Richard Mueller: “Interesting module. We could use references and a See Also section.”
  Ed Price: “This seems to be a duplicate link to the same article.”

	Priyaranjan KS	Create And Configure Active Directory Domain Controller In Azure Windows Server	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan: “A very clean writeup; I would also suggest that you provide a similar article, but with Azure Portal instead of Azure Classic, so that everyone can benefit from it. :-)” Kia Zhi Tang: “Great effort with TOC, Reference and See Also section. Hope to see this updated with new Azure Portal.” Richard Mueller: “Great detail and very useful steps.” JM: “This is an excellent article on AD Domain Controllers In Azure.Thanks for helping others with this article.” Joseph Moody: “Wonderful documentation! Thank you for putting so much effort into this guide.” Mark Parris: “Good Insight.” Eric Berg: “Thank you. unfortunately your article is written for ASM (the “old” portal) –> This is not any longer a recommended solution. Would be great if you could clarify and add an article für the ARM based machines”
	Mahdi Tehrani	Active Directory: Report User logons using PowerShell and Event Viewer	Joseph Moody: “Awesome job!!! Very useful guide in an easy to understand format. Keep writing!” Richard Mueller: “Very useful, as this is often requested. Great images.” JM: “This is an excellent article on reporting user logons by using Windows PowerShell. Thanks for your contribution.” Eric Berg: “good work. Thank you” Kia Zhi Tang: “Good Effort with TOC. It will be great if it includes a Reference section for external links and a See Also section should be other related Wiki articles.” Mark Parris: “Good Insight.”
	burak ugur	AD Replication Status Tool Usage	Eric Berg: “Thank you for your contribution. Please clarify in your article that it is not neccessary to install the tool on an DC, but a suitable option.” Kia Zhi Tang: “Nice insight on ADReplication Status Tool. It will be great if there is a TOC, Introduction, Requirements and Conclusion/Summary section on the Wiki article with Reference and See Also section.” Mark Parris: “Valuable knowledge for this nugget of a tool..” JM: “This is a terrific article, thanks for your contribution!” Joseph Moody: “Good write up! If possible, I would be interested in seeing some additional usage examples.” Richard Mueller: “An important tool. We could use references and a See Also section.”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Wiki portal by Peter Geelen
  Mark Parris: “Vital in a cloud connected world.”
  Richard Mueller: “A great collection of links for an important technology.”
  Eric Berg: “thanks”
  JM: “This is a helpful set of links to ADFS content, thanks for posting!”
  Joseph Moody: “Good jump list! Thanks for putting this together.”
  Kia Zhi Tang: “Excellent ADFS Wiki Portal to find ADFS related Wiki articles for the Wiki and Portals category.”
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Builds and hotfixes by Peter Geelen
  Mark Parris: “Important Information.”
  Richard Mueller: “This will help many people.”
  Kia Zhi Tang: “This is a very useful Wiki article and definitely need the community to help updating it. Thank you for the kick start, Peter Geelen.”
  JM: “This is a terrific resource for ADFS builds and hotfixes, thanks for publishing.”———————————————– 8< ——————————————-
  A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to March’s competition.Hopefully we will see you ALL again in April 2017’s listings?

   

  If you haven’t contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here’s your chance!

  Best regards,
  Pete Laker

  More about the TechNet Guru Awards:

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Did you ever wonder how the TNWiki is doing now?

8,765 users have contributed

25,441 pages,

201,205 revisions, and

118,012 comments,

7675 deleted pages (mostly spam content).

That’s not a surprise, for most of us as you can check that on the Wiki landing page.
You definitely would want a bit more…

How the TNWiki has been doing since it got launched?
Interested to get some numbers?
Well, got some nice surprise for you… watch. And get blown away.

Remember the first TNWiki article? It got published on 25 feb 2010…

Its not likely you’ll find it, it got archived but still is there.

The first 3 months weren’t spectacular… but within the first month we had 30K+ visitors.. within a few months we passed the 100K.

And TNWiki kept growing faster and faster…

So, you quickly notice that even quite recently, march 2017, had a visitors peak of nearly 1.8M per month.

Want more details?

Does that relate to the page views, you think?
Initially, yes.
But there some interesting surprises.

Amazingly, in the turn of the year 2014-2015 we had a 3 month consecutive peak around 3M views

And quite recently, march 2017, we did hit the 2M mark again.

What about the page views, visits and unique visitors?

Within the page views what are the most popular articles?
Let’s stick to the top 20.

If you look at the nr.1, that’s a whopping 1.6M views.
It won’t surprise you it’s the user settings page that everyone of us uses, so what’s the real winner?

How do visitors get to TNWIKI?

Pretty strange fact here is that most people TYPE the URL to get to the Wiki and all the rest is … Google. Well done!

That is becoming even more clear if we line up the search engines.

What else do we now about our visitors?

It won’t surprise you that majority or our users get to TNWiki from a laptop/PC. But we do get also game consoles, eReaders and set-top boxes.

Where are the users coming from?

How long to you usually stay?

There are some more interesting statistics, but we’ll keep the fun for the next overview.
We may consider a yearly/quarterly review… what do you think?

Hello, world! After almost my first full year at Microsoft, I’ve finally taken the time to start my very own shiny, new TechNet blog. I wanted a place to share strange and/or interesting things I come across in my day-to-day interactions with Microsoft customers, as well as general knowledge on anything related to Microsoft technologies.

During my 17 years in the industry, I’ve supported quite a few of the major Microsoft products, including Windows Server, SMS/SCCM, Exchange Server, and Hyper-V. My niche has always been working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), including Group Policy, and Certificate Services, but my real passion has always been scripting/automation.

Helping individuals and organizations work more efficiently has always given me a lot of personal satisfaction. So, you’ll probably see me blogging quite a bit about a variety of things you can do with Windows PowerShell, from simple one-liners to complex modules, all aimed at making the daily grind of a system administrator just a little bit easier. I’ve been working with PowerShell for almost 10 years now, however, I’m still learning new things every day, and I hope to share them with you as often as my schedule allows.

Today we’ve released an updated driver for Surface Studio devices running Windows 10 Creators Update. This update includes a new driver for Realtek High Definition Audio (SST) that enables Wake on Voice from Modern Standby.

This update is available in MSI format from the Surface Studio Drivers and Firmware Page in the Microsoft Download Center. Click Download to download the following file:

• SurfaceStudio_Win10_15063_1701606_0.msi

Note: The driver in this release is applicable only to Windows 10 Creators Update. As such, on the download page you will notice that there are two MSI for Windows 10. In the name if these files you will note a Windows 10 build number indicating the minimum supported build required to install the drivers and firmware contained within. For example, to install the drivers contained in SurfaceStudio_Win10_15063_1701606_0.msi you must have Windows 10 Creators Update (Version 1703) or newer installed on your Surface Studio device. You can find a list of the build numbers for each version of Windows 10 in Windows 10 release information. Files that do not contain a build number in their name are applicable to all versions of Windows 10.

For your reference, here is a full description of the driver version that is updated in this release and the improvement it provides:

Surface Studio

• Realtek High Definition Audio (6.0.1.8061) enables Wake on Voice from Modern Standby

Sometimes when things go wrong in my environment, I don’t want to have to clean it all up — I just want to go back in time to when everything was working. But remembering to maintain good recovery points isn’t easy.

Now we’re making it so that you can always roll back your virtual machine to a recent good state if you need to. Starting in the latest Windows Insider build, you can now always revert a virtual machine back to the state it started in.

In Virtual Machine Connection, just click the Revert button to undo any changes made inside the virtual machine since it last started.

Under the hood, we’re using checkpoints; when you start a virtual machine that doesn’t have any checkpoints, we create one for you so that you can easily roll back to it if something goes wrong, then we clean it up once the virtual machine shuts down cleanly.

New virtual machines will be created with “Use automatic checkpoints” enabled by default, but you will have to enable it yourself to use it for existing VMs.  This option can be found in Settings -> Checkpoints -> “Use automatic checkpoints”

Note: the checkpoint will only be taken automatically when the VM starts if it doesn’t have other existing checkpoints.

Hopefully this will come in handy next time you need to undo something in your VM. If you are in the Windows Insider Program, please give it a try and let us know what you think.

Cheers,
Andy