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To my family and friends, who have made this possible by helping and supporting me over the years. Aidan Finn

I would like to dedicate this book to my family, friends, colleagues, and most of all to my wife, Lisa, and our precious children. Patrick Lownds

For my family, friends, and colleagues who have been supporting and inspiring me all the time. Michel Luescher

This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife, Breege. She has been my inspiration, my motivation, and my rock. Damian Flynn

When I first thought about writing this book back in 2011, I thought it might be something that I could do alone over a short period. But then we started to learn how much had changed in Windows Server 2012, and how much bigger Hyper-V had become. I knew that I would need a team of experts to work with on this project. Patrick Lownds, Michel Luescher, Damian Flynn, and Hans Vredevoort were the best people for the job. Luckily, they were willing to sign up for the months of hard work that would be required to learn this new version of Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, do the research, annoy the Microsoft project managers, and reach out to other members of the community. Thank you to my coauthors, Patrick, Michel, and Damian, for the hard work that you have done over the past few months; I have learned a lot from each of you during this endeavor. When it came to picking a technical reviewer, there was one unanimous choice, and that was Hans, a respected expert in Hyper-V and System Center. Hans name might not be on the cover, but his input can be found in every chapter. Thank you (again) Hans, for taking the time to minimize our mistakes.

Patrick, Damian, and Hans are Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) like myself. The MVP program is a network of experts in various technologies. There are many benefits to achieving this award from Microsoft, but one of the best is the opportunity to meet those experts. Many of these people helped with this project and youll see just some of their names in these acknowledgments.

Starting to write a book on a product that is still being developed is quite a challenge. There is little documentation, and the target keeps moving. Many people helped me during this endeavor. Who would think that a person who barely passed lower-grade English when he finished school could go on to have his name on the covers of five technical books? Mark Minasi (MVP) is the man I have to thank (or is it blame?) for getting me into writing books. Mark once again was there to help when I needed some information on BitLocker. Jeff Wouters, a consultant in the Netherlands, loves a PowerShell challenge. Jeff got a nice challenge when a PowerShell noob asked for help. Thanks to Jeff, I figured out some things and was able to give the reader some better real-world solutions to common problems. If youre searching for information on Windows Server 2012 storage, theres a good chance that you will come across Didier Van Hoye (aka Workinghardinit). Didier is a fellow Virtual Machine (Hyper-V) MVP and has been there to answer quick or complex questions. Brian Ehlert (MVP) is an important contributor on the TechNet Hyper-V forum and is an interesting person to talk to for alternative points of view. Brian helped me see the forest for the trees a number of times. We have a great Hyper-V MVP community in Europe; Carsten Rachfahl found some functionality that we werent aware of and helped us understand it. A new guy on the MVP scene is Thomas Maurer, and his blog posts were useful in understanding some features.