Acknowledgements

First and foremost I would like to thank Joel Rennich, who is a bigger part of this book than most will ever know.

A big thanks to those people who contributed their expertise in various areas, thereby helping to make the complex easy to understand. They include Victor Alexander, Michael Bartosh, Dave Pugh, Jan Stewart, and John Welch.

Thanks to my editors Rebecca Gulick, Whitney Walker, and Jill Marts Lodwig.

Thanks to my friends Andrina Kelly, Ian Kelly, and Josh Wisenbaker.

Juggling tasks is never easy, and my wife Susan is the gold standard by which all else must be measured. If it were not for her, I would have gone crazy.

I would also like to thank my fellow Mac OS X Server writers Michael Bartosh and Charles Edge. Writing about Mac OS X Server is never easyso much to cover, so little space and time. We all understand the quest for knowledge and do our best to make it available to all. I feel fortunate to be in such company.

Finally, I'd like to thank the Apple technical writer who tweaked the section in the manual about the uuidgen command for Mac OS X. I have never had so much fun explaining to others how to use this command as I do now.