Active Directory

Brian Desmond spends his entire day focusing on Active Directory for some of the largest companies in the US and globally. He understands how to run Active Directory successfully better than most folks and has thorough knowledge of how it works. Brian is a Microsoft MVP and has been exposed to the Windows 2008 Active Directory changes for over a year now and the product hasn't even hit the shelves yet!Brian works with a diverse range of Active Directory specialists who vary in their levels of qualification for the jobs they have so he is quite familiar with some of the common questions, pitfalls, etc. He can apply this to catering to people of all different skill levels in this vertical.Joe Richards is a consultant/admin/tool writer and Microsoft MVP for Windows Server Directory Services. Joe updated the second edition of Active Directory Cookbook for O'Reilly.Robbie Allen is the coauthor of Active Directory, 2nd Edition and the author of the Active Directory Cookbook. Visit Robbie's web site at www.robbieallen.com.Alistair G. Lowe-Norris is an enterprise program manager for Microsoft U.K., although during the writing of this book he worked for Leicester University as the project manager and technical lead of the Rapid Deployment Program for Windows 2000.