Thomas W Shinder - Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond Architecting, Designing, Planning, and Deploying Windows Server 2012 Security Solutions

After about 30 books and thousands of articles and millions of words written, youd think the task of writing would get easier. This book was a yearlong effort shared among Yuri Diogenes, Deb Shinder, and myself. Hundreds of hours of research and testing went into this book. There are a number of people Id like to thank and acknowledge for their efforts, encouragement, and motivation in making this book come to fruition. First, thanks to Yuri Diogenes for staying upbeat and positive in spite of long hours and multiple responsibilitieswithout Yuris Outlook, we would never have been able to complete this book. I want to thank my beautiful wife Deb Shinder for her willingness to step in and take on some of the heavy lifting while we were in midstreamwithout her exceptional quality input, this book would have been much less than it is today. John Dawson receives my utmost appreciation for motivating us to be all that we can be and encouraging us to reach down for that extra effort needed to bring this effort across the wire. I want to extend a special thanks for Adina Hagege for recruiting me to work for Microsoft. Its been a wild ride and theres never a boring day. The opportunities for growth and learning and pushing the boundaries make me look forward to going to work in the morning. Kudos and many thanks go to Richard Hicks for providing an amazingly helpful and actionable technical edit on this book. A big high five for Tim Rains for his gracious contribution to the foreword of this book. Thanks and gratitude go to Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer for changing the world for the betterI owe more than I can put into words. Finally, I thank God for all the blessings that Hes given me, including the strength, the intelligence, and the will to complete this and all my other projects.

Tom Shinder

Every book is a new journey, and this one couldnt be different. Im fortunate to have the full support of my wife Alexsandra Diogenes and my beautiful daughters Yanne and Ysis throughout this journeyI love you. Im also glad that I could once more have my friend Tom Shinder sharing this project with me; this is our fourth book together, and as always it is an enormous privilege to write with such a great person. I also would like to thank Deb Shinder for joining (literally hit the ground running) this project; it was great to partner with you on that. To our technical reviewer for precisely going through each chapter and suggesting improvements, thanks Richard Hicks. To wrap up this team of great minds, I would like to thank our friend Tim Rains for writing the foreword of this book; Tim, I truly appreciate all your support, thanks.

There were many people indirectly involved on this project that I would like to thank for. Some friends keep inspiring me even after leaving the IT field to pursue a new journey. Yes, Jim Harrison, Im talking about you, buddy. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, your experience, and your friendship. To my close friends that were able to understand the times that I couldnt meet them for a party because I was busy writing: Alexandre Hollanda, Marcelo Fartura, Wilson Souza, Jose Moreira, and Marcus Paulino. Thanks, guys! Also, to all my coworkers (new and former); they were responsible for helping shape my knowledge: Gershon Levitz, Nathan Bigman, Jess Huber, Steve Dodson, Dan Watson, Mohit Saxena, Daniel Mauser, Eddie Bowers, Andrew Davis, Dan Herzog, Thomas Detzner, Jamir Correa, Vandy Rodrigues, and Phillip Sand.

When you have great leaders at work, new challenges become easy to deal with. Im fortunate to have great leaders that keep inspiring us to do better; thanks for Adina Hagege and John Dawson for leading us to great places.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank God for guiding me daily and for enabling me to do what I love.

Yuri Diogenes

Writing a book is always a journey that takes you into unexpected places. Coauthoring a book with others makes the process easier in many ways and sometimes more challenging in others. Sometimes you get lucky and get to work with people who smooth the way. It helps when those people are not just random colleagues, but folks you know and like. So I want to extend a big thank you to my husband, Tom Shinder, and my good friend, Yuri Diogenes, who were my constant companions on this particular trip from outline to printed text. In addition, I thank those at Syngress for the opportunity to participate in this project, and my colleagues and readers in the IT security community, from whom Ive learned so much over the years.