Steve Buchanan - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 SP1

Steve Buchanan is an infrastructure consultant at RBA with a focus on System Center. He has 13 years of experience in information technology around systems management and systems administration. Steve authored System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) 2010 SP1 and was a technical reviewer for the System Center Service Manager 2012 Cookbook and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook , Packt Publishing . Steve is a Microsoft System Center MVP and holds the following certifications: Linux +, MCP, MCTS, MCSA, MCITP: Server Administrator, and MCSE: Private Cloud.

Steve can be found blogging at www.buchatech.com.

I want to first and foremost give thanks to God for making opportunities such as this possible. I would like to thank my wife, Aya, and my three sons for being patient and supportive as I work on time consuming projects like this. I would also like to thank all of my other family and friends. I want to give a big thanks to the other System Center MVPs Robert Hedblom, Islam Gomaa, Flemming Riis, Yegor Startsev, and Mike Resseler for being a part of the team on this book, as it takes a great amount of effort to put something like this together. I also want to thank the Packt Publishing team for supporting all the authors and reviewers during this project. I would also like to say thanks to my employer RBA for being supportive and encouraging these types of community-based efforts. Last but not least, thank you to the System Center community for being supporters of books like this.

Islam Gomaa is a System Architect at Kivuto Solutions Inc, the global leader in complex digital distribution solutions. Islam has over 15 years of expertise in helping organizations align their business goals using Microsoft technology and deploying Microsoft-based solutions, which helped Kivuto become ISO 27001 certified and achieve the Microsoft Gold competency as an ISV.

Islam is an SCDM MVP and member of the Windows Springboard Technical Expert Panel (STEP) for Windows 8 and Server 2012, having delivered STEP presentations as an evangelist across Canada and the USA. He has also authored select advanced webcasts on Microsoft private cloud. Islam presented at both TechEd 2013 North America and Europe, and is welcomed each year to present for TechEd and MMS as a guest speaker.

Islam has a Bachelors in computer science from Montreal University, holds several Microsoft technical designations, and is an active member of the IT community.

Islam enjoys sharing his adventures and ideas about system administration through his blog at http://blog.islamgomaa.com and http://www.IslamGomaa.com.

First of all, I would like to thank God for allowing me to participate in a great project like the writing of this book. I would like to thank my wife Marwa and son Yassine for being patient and supportive. I can't thank enough everyone that participated in the making of this book, Robert Hedblom, Steve Buchanan, Flemming Riis, Yegor Startsev, and Mike Resseler. They have invested a lot of their time to this project; a special thanks to Steve Buchanan for taking the lead on this project and guiding each of the authors. I also want to thank the Packt Publishing team for their outstanding work and support rendered to all the authors and reviewers during this project; I know it wasn't easy to coordinate between four authors living in four different countries.

Robert Hedblom is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management and works as a Solution Architect for System Center for hosters, EPG, and SMB customers globally. He was previously an MVP for DPM. Robert's knowledge is often used by Microsoft as a reviewing partner and consultant via Microsoft Consultant Services (MCS) or Premier Field Engineers (PFE) on a global scale.

He also runs one of the largest DPM blogs (http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com) where he blogs frequently about DPM and also other System Center products for the System Center community.

Robert has written several DPM trainings for versions 2010, 2012, and 2012 SP1 that a large number of training centers are using. Robert is often seen as a speaker on MMS, TechEd, and several other seminars that Microsoft runs. He was involved in the previous book for System Center Data Protection Manager as a technical reviewer.

I would like to dedicate a big thank you to my family, and especially my wife Hanna, who is the reason that I can fulfill my dream.

Flemming Riis is an infrastructure consultant at Kompetera with a focus on System Center.

He has been working there since 1997 in various roles, starting with repairing PCs and then presales support. He is now a consultant who started with management software, then became Operations Manager, and hasn't looked back since.

Flemming is a Microsoft System Center MVP and holds the following certifications: MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP.

Flemming can be found blogging at www.flemmingriis.com.

I want to first and foremost give thanks to Steve Buchanan and the rest of the team on this book for allowing me to contribute to the great team, and in general to the whole community around Microsoft Solutions, where everyone is very helpful across company relations; this is a true inspiration for others to follow.

I want to give a big thanks to the other System Center MVPs Robert Hedblom, Islam Gomaa, Mike Resseler, and Yegor Startsev.

I also want to thank the Packt Publishing team for supporting all the authors and reviewers during this project.