Acknowledgments

Anyway, before I jump in and start describing all the new features and enhancements found in Windows Server 2008, I’d first like to say “Hats off” to all those working inside Microsoft and others who contributed their valuable time and expertise. Their efforts in writing sidebars for this book, reviewing chapters in their draft form, answering questions, and providing me with access to internal documentation and specifications made this book the quality technical resource that I’m sure you’ll find it to be. In fact, let me acknowledge them by name now. I’ll omit their titles, as these can be found in the credits at the end of each sidebar. I know the compositor (the person who transforms my manuscript into pages) will probably hate this, but I’m going to put everyone’s name on a separate line to call them out and recognize them better for their invaluable contribution to this book. Here goes:

Aaron J. Smith

Ahmed Bisht

Ajay Kumar

Alain Lissoir

Alex Balcanquall

Amit Date

Amith Krishnan

Andrew Mason

Aruna Somendra

Asad Yaqoob

Aurash Behbahani

Avi Ben-Menahem

Bill Staples

Brett Hill

Chandra Nukala

Chris Edson

Chuck Timon

Claudia Lake

Craig Liebendorfer

Dan Harman

David Lowe

Dino Chiesa

Donovan Follette

Eduardo Melo

Elden Christensen

Emily Langworthy

Eric Deily

Eric Fitzgerald

Eric Holk

Eric Woersching

George Menzel

Harini Muralidharan

Harish Kumar Poongan Shanmugam

Isaac Roybal

Jason Olson

Jeff Woolsey

Jeffrey Snover

Jez Sadler

Joel Sloss

John Morello

Kadirvel C. Vanniarajan

Kalpesh Patel

Kapil Jain

Kevin London

Kevin Rhodes

Kevin Sullivan

Kurt Friedrich

Lu Zhao

Mahesh Lotlikar

Manish Kalra

Marcelo Mas

Mike Schutz

Mike Wilenzick

Moon Majumdar

Nick Pierson

Nils Dussart

Nisha Victor

Nitin T Bhat

Oded Shekel

Paul Mayfield

Peter Waxman

Piyush Lumba

Rahul Prasad

Rajiv Arunkundram

Reagan Templin

Samim Erdogan

Samir Jain

Santosh Chandwani

Satyajit Nath

Scott Dickens

Scott Turnbull

Siddhartha Sen

Somesh Goel

Soo Kuan Teo

Sriram Sampath

Suryanarayana Shastri

Suzanne Morgan

Tad Brockway

Thom Robbins

Tim Elhajj

Tobin Titus

Tolga Acar

Tom Kelnar

Tony Ureche

Tres Hill

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

Vijay Gajjala

Wai-O Hui

Ward Ralston

Yogesh Mehta

Zardosht Kasheff

I hope I haven’t missed anyone in the above list of reviewers, sidebar contributors, and other experts. If I have, I’m really sorry-e-mail me and I’ll see that you get a free copy of my book!

And since we’re acknowledging people here, let me also give credit to the editorial staff at Microsoft Press who helped bring this project to fruition. Thank you, Martin DelRe, Karen Szall, and Denise Bankaitis for your advice, patience, and prodding to help me get this book completed on time for TechEd ’07. And thank you, Roger LeBlanc, for your skill and restraint in copyediting my writing and weeding out dangling participles, nested colons, and other grammatical horrors while maintaining my natural voice and rambling style of writing. Thank you to Waypoint Press for their editorial and production services. And thanks especially to Ingrid, my wife and business partner, who contributed many hours of research gathering and organizing material for this book and helped in many other ways every step of the way. She deserves to have her name on a separate page all by herself, but the compositor would probably choke if I tried this, so I’ll just give her a whole line to herself, like this:

Thank you, Ingrid!