Bede Carroll is an IT everyman, working with servers, networking, and storage when not dabbling with some coding for fun. His desire to learn has led him to hold many industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, and EMC to name but a few. Bede has many years of industry experience obtained while working in small business environments all the way through to Fortune Global 500 organizations. This diverse experience has given Bede a unique perspective on the industry and the ability to respond to any client needs.

Bede can be found on Twitter @bedecarroll, on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/bedecarroll, and occasionally blogging at www.bedecarroll.com.

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity, and Access Management Solution Architect with a focus and deep technical knowledge on the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. He currently works for inovit GmbH in Switzerland and spends the majority of each work day planning, designing, and implementing single parts such as Azure Active Directory Premium, Azure Rights Management Services, or complete Enterprise Mobility Suite solutions.

Also, he has been part of many projects, proof of concepts, reviews, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft V-TSP Security, Identity, and Access Management, Microsoft Switzerland, and he uses his experience for directly managed business accounts in Switzerland. He is also an established speaker at many technology conferences.

As an active writer and reviewer, Jochen authored Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control and reviewed Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan, both by Packt Publishing.

Committed to continuous learning, he holds Microsoft certifications such as MCITP, MCSE/A, MCTS, MTA, and many other security titles. He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to get back the energy to handle such interesting technologies.

He regularly blogs at www.inovit.ch/blog.idam.ch.

Matthew Stone is an IT veteran, having worked on a wide range of technologies over the last 20 years, including Windows Server and many other Microsoft server technologies. In addition to systems administration, he has also served as a technical writer, most recently writing a training course on Office 365 administration and deployment. His current focus is on orchestration and configuration management in the enterprise, focusing on Windows Server and Puppet technologies.

Kunal Udapi has acquired more than 8 years of IT experience in SMB and Enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and administration. He has provided architectural and engineering expertise in a variety of virtualization, data center, and private cloud-based engagements for company's internal IT team environment. He currently holds the title of Senior System Administrator at a company in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Kunal holds numerous technical certifications (Windows and VMware) and was awarded VMware vExpert in 2014. He frequently answer users' questions on VMware Technology Network (VMTN) and LinkedIn groups.

Kunal is an independent blogger for http://kunaludapi.blogspot.com. He focuses on creating content that revolves around VMware virtualization and PowerShell/PowerCLI automation, which benefits the technology community.