Mark Minasi - Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2

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Acquisitions Editor: Mariann Barsolo

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Acknowledgments

The author team wishes to thank Gavin McShera for his extensive assistance and constructive criticisms as technical editor (Gavin blogs at mcshera.com ), and thanks also go to developmental editor Tom Cirtin, who wrestled our widely varying original drafts into publishable form. We thank the production team at Wiley: editorial manager Pete Gaughan, acquisitions editor Mariann Barsolo, production editor Rebecca Anderson, copy editor Linda Recktenwald, and proofreader Sarah Kaikini.

The authors

Special thanks first to my beautiful wife, Laura, for her patience and support throughout the long hours Ive spent writing my chapters for this book! Of course a big thanks has to go to my two sons, Matthew and Dylan, for making sure I woke up early on weekends to continue writing!

Thanks to Mariann Barsolo and Pete Gaughan for asking me to come on board with this book and for giving me the opportunity to work with some fantastic technical minds throughout the process. I found it very inspiring working with the other authors, contributors, and editors on this projecteven though we had to rewrite half the book for the R2 release!

Another thank you has to go to my colleagues at Ergo, whove given me the opportunity to work on the type of enterprise-level projects that helped me gain the experience required to write a book like this.

Finally, I would like to dedicate my work in this book to my father-in-law, Cecil Anderson, who has been a father figure to me for many years. His strength and courage are an inspiration to us all.

Kevin Greene

I would like to thank my family for their support. The time invested in this book seemed like an eternity, with lots of weekends involving me stuck at the keyboard writing chapters. I am very thankful for your patience. I love you all! Go Braves!

Christian Booth

I would like to thank my wife Nicole, and our two boys Alex and Miles. Their love and support help me through everything I do.

Robert Butler

Id like to thank my wife, Sharon, and three kids, Sophie, Adam, and Sam, for their patience throughout the last year. Its not easy trying to balance a hectic workload with family life!

John McCabe

First, I have to thank Kevin Greene for giving me the opportunity to work on this book and guiding me through the first steps. Also special thanks to my wife, Simona, for her patience and accepting the hours I spent with the book instead of with her!