Results of the February competitions

• Author
• Recent Posts

Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor in chief of 4sysops. He has more than 35 years of experience in IT management and system administration.

Latest posts by Michael Pietroforte (see all)

• Poll: How reliable are ChatGPT and Bing Chat? - Tue, May 23 2023
• Pip install Boto3 - Thu, Mar 24 2022
• Install Boto3 (AWS SDK for Python) in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) on Windows - Wed, Feb 23 2022

Winners of the member competition

1. Kyle Beckman, Points: 235
   Kyle works as a systems administrator in Atlanta, GA supporting Office 365 in higher education. He has 17+ years of systems administration experience.
2. Paolo Maffezzoli, Points: 208
   Paolo is an IT systems administrator for Windows, VMware, and Linux.
3. Karim Buzdar, Points: 155
   Karim is an IT pro, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and an author of several articles at FAQforge, Tutorials Point, Quora and Windows IT Pro. He holds a bachelor’s of engineering in telecommunications from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences.

The winner receives US$100, the runner-up $50, and third place gets $25. If you are one of the winners, please contact me to collect your prize.

You can find the entire member leaderboard for the previous month here. Note that we update this page automatically every month. Thus, next month the page will display the March leaderboard.

If you want take part in the competition or just contribute to our IT pro community, please read my introductory blog post and check out the member point system.

Winners of the author competition

1. Anil Erduran, Points: 967
   Anil is a principal consultant and subject matter expert for Hitachi Data Systems EMEA, based in London, UK. He is also a dual category Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management and Microsoft Azure.
2. Alex Pazik, Points: 818
   Alexander specializes in Windows deployments and systems management applications, such as System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager.
3. Adam Bertram, Points: 527
   Adam is a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management Most Valuable Professional who specializes in Windows PowerShell.

The monthly author competition measures the long-term impact of an author's articles in terms of page views. The February competition was based on articles that we published in November of last year.

These were the three most popular articles in the competition:

1. Deploy Firefox with SCCM - Alex Pazik
2. Install Azure Stack in a nested Windows Server 2016 VM - Anil Erduran
3. How to install SQL Server Express 2016 in a Windows Container (Docker) - Anil Erduran

Authors can just add their prize money to the next invoice. If you are interested in becoming a 4sysops author, please read this.

Congrats to the winners!