Acknowledgments

Thanks to O'Reilly for signing this book and sticking with it through the delays. We'd also like to thank our editor Simon St.Laurent for being patient with us and providing words of encouragement throughout the process.

Jim Aspinwall, author of several books including PC Hacks (O'Reilly), wrote Chapters 3 and 20 and The Appendix. Jonathan Hassell, author of Learning Windows Server 2003 (O'Reilly) among others, wrote Chapters 2 and 19. We appreciate their help without which the book might have never been completed. We would also like to thank Wei-Meng Lee for his initial contribution to Chapter 19.

Jim and Jonathan also served as technical reviewers along with Eric Cloninger, all of whom caught numerous oversights and mistakes which made the book much better as a result. We'd like especially to highlight Eric's thoughtful and thorough feedback.

Preston thanks, as always, his wife Lydia, and children Gabe and Mia.

Robbie would like to thank his lovely wife, Janet, for her support and friendship.