Keith Hanna - Mastering Microsoft Lync Server 2013

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I'd like to dedicate this book to my fantastic wife, Sharon, for allowing me the time out from family life to complete this second challengeevenings are ours againand also to Rosie and Jamie, who every day continue to amaze me with how quickly they learn and grow up.

Keith Hanna

I would like to dedicate this book to my parents, who throughout my life have encouraged me to reach my goals and have been there for me both when I have and when I've fallen short.

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Acknowledgments

Wow! What started as a simple chat over coffee has now developed into two books! The fact that we've gotten to our second book is as much of a surprise to us as it is to many people who know us! With the first book, Mastering Lync Server 2010, we established that writing a book wasn't an easy task. Knowing this, we're not quite sure why we went ahead with this follow-up. (And Nathan is even doing an Exchange book!)

Of course, we learned a lot with the 2010 book, and even more so with this 2013 version. Our approaches were very different this time: Lync 2010 had been released for around a year, and we had involvement in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) prior to that. This time around, we had only our experiences within the TAP program to drive us and had to rely on our much-valued networks to fill in the gapsand there were many more gaps!

It's not doing them justice by simply naming those who helped us here; some of this book could simply not have been written without help from those in the following list. Some chapters were being written while the code was still wet and being tested in the TAP program, and indeed one or two of the chapters have undergone complete rewrites during this period, not because the information was wrong, but because the product fundamentally changed prior to release! Some of the people here implemented the first deployments of Lync Server 2013 in the world.

In company alphabetical order, we are extremely grateful to the following people: