Drew Hills - (MCTS): Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide

Robert Crane has a degree in Electrical Engineering as well as Masters of Business Administration. He is also a Small Business Specialist and Microsoft Certified SharePoint Professional. In 2012, he was awarded Microsofts Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his contributions to the Office 365 product. Robert has over 15 years of IT experience in a variety of fields and positions, including working on Wall St in New York. He was the founder and Principal of the Computer Information Agency.

Apart from resolving client technical issues, Robert continues to present seminars locally and internationally, as well as write on a number for topics for the Computer Information Agency. He also develops and presents technology courses on a regular basis on topics including SharePoint and Office 365. Robert is committed to a process of ongoing business and technical education to continue developing the skills required to assist clients with their business challenges.

He can be contacted at director@ciaops.com.

Id like to firstly thank my co-author Drew, who has toiled long and hard with me on creating this piece. I appreciate all your assistance, support, and friendship during this process. Next, Id like to thank Susan Bradley (SBS-MVP) for providing me with the resources to run a Windows SBS 2011 Standard test system. Id also say thanks to the reviewers, who graciously went through what we had written and provided their valuable feedback. Your contributions have made this book a much better product. Id also like to thank people like Susan, the reviewers and all the other community members out there, MVPs, IT Professionals, resellers, and end users who continue to provide so much valuable information about the product through so many different mediums. Without them, Windows SBS 2011 would not be the vibrant and successful product it is today. Last, but not least, I must thank Microsoft for not only taking a chance and creating the SBS product all those years ago but for continuing to support, improve, and enhance the product over the years, without which I would not have had the pleasure of journeying to this point in my career. To one and all, a heartfelt thanks.

Drew Hills is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (Enterprise Administrator), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and a Microsoft Small Business Specialist 2003, 2008, and 2011. He is also a D-Link Certified Network Engineer, and holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering Technology (Electrical and Electronic Engineering). Drew has passed 18 different Microsoft Certification exams thus far, and he aims to continue to use Microsoft Certification exams as a means of staying up-to-date with current trends in the IT industry.

Drew was an owner of a successful ICT company, which ran for seven years before he sold the company. Since then, he has been working as an Operations Manager or as a Senior Systems Engineer for a number of Managed Services based support companies, while enjoying a greater work life balance. Drew describes himself as a quiet achiever; however, he is an active contributor to the SMB IT Professional community in Australia.

In the 13 plus years that Drew has worked in IT, his primary focus has always been on the SMB client base, with the majority being based on the Microsoft SBS product range. Drew divides his passion equally between the SMB client base and the Microsoft technologies that support these clients.

I would like to thank my wife and son, for allowing me the time and space to complete this book, and Robert Crane for asking me to co-author. Also, thanks to all the current and future Microsoft Small Business Specialists for allowing me to be part of a worldwide community of amazing people.

Susan Bradley has been patching since before the Code Red/Nimda days, and remembers exactly where she was when SQL slammer hit (that is, trying to buy something on eBay and wondering why the Internet was so slow). She writes the Patch Watch column for Brian Livingstons Windows Secrets, and was one of the authors of Windows Server 2008 Security Resource kit and Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed. In real life, shes the IT wrangler at her firmTamiyasu, Smith, Horn & Braunwhere she manages a fleet of Windows servers, an Exchange server, desktops, a few Macs, and several Windows Mobile phones and iPhones and tries to keep patches up-to-date on all of them. In addition, she provides forensic computer investigations for the litigation consulting arm of the firm. She blogs at www.sbsdiva.com on the topics of small business server, tech topics, and whatever she stumbled over that day.

Boon Tee has been working with computers and networks for over 30 years. He is a Most Valuable Professional (SBS-MVP), Microsoft Certified Professional, and Microsoft Small Business Specialist, and has a degree in Computer Science from California State University (Fresno) with high honors, a MBA (University of South Australia), and an MA in Education (Flinders University). His experience covers support of larger networks from 100 to 500 computers down to repairs and upgrades of individual workstations and smaller networks of less than 10 computers. He has served as an IT consultant for several organizations. He has extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Windows networks, including all versions of Microsoft Windows. Boon has also been active in hands-on staff development and training for various organizations. He has taught part time at the Flinders University of South Australia, lecturing on computer and multimedia literacy.