Florian Klaffenbach started his IT career in 2004 as a first and second level IT support technician and IT salesman trainee for a B2B online shop. After that, he moved to a small company working as an IT project manager, planning, implementing, and integrating from industrial plants and laundries into IT enterprise. After spending some years as an IT project manager, he moved to Dell Germany. Here, he started from scratch as an enterprise technical support analyst and later worked on a project to start Dell technical communities and support over social media in Europe and outside of the U.S. Currently, he is working as a solutions architect and consultant for Microsoft infrastructure and cloud specializing in Microsoft Hyper-V, file services, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and Microsoft Azure IaaS.
In addition to his job, he is active as a Microsoft blogger and lecturer. He blogs, for example, on his own page, Datacenter-Flo.de, or the Brocade Germany community. Together with a very good friend, he founded the Windows Server User Group Berlin to create a network of Microsoft IT professionals in Berlin. Florian maintains a very tight network for many vendors, such as Cisco, Dell, or Microsoft, and other communities. This helps him grow his experience and get the best out of a solution for his customers.
Florian has worked for several companies such as Dell Germany, CGI Germany, and his first employer, TACK GmbH. Currently, he works for Elanity Network Partner together with Benedict Berger (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional—Hyper-V).
Anderson Patricio is a Canadian Exchange Server MVP and a messaging consultant based in Toronto, designing and deploying messaging solutions for several clients located in America. He has been working with the Exchange Server since Version 5 and besides his passion with Exchange Server, he works with Active Directory and System Center products.
Anderson is an active member of the Exchange Community and he contributes to forums, blogs, tutorials, articles, and videos. In English, he blogs regularly at www.AndersonPatricio.ca and MSExchange.org, where he writes his blog and articles. In Portuguese, his website (www.AndersonPatricio.org) contains hundreds of Microsoft articles that help the local community. Besides this, he is also involved in speaking engagements; he is a TechEd speaker in South America and is part of Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) training courses. You can also follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/apatricio.
He is the reviewer of several books such as Windows Powershell in Action, Bruce Payette, PowerShell in Practice, Richard Siddaway, both by Manning Publication, and Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook by Mike Pfeiffer, Packt Publishing.
Lai Yoong Seng was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Hyper-V in 2010. He has more than 14 years of IT experience and recently joined Hyper-V and System Center Specialist Infront Consulting in Malaysia. He specializes in Microsoft virtualization, blogs about the technology (www.ms4u.info), and has presented at local and regional events. He is the founder of Malaysia Virtualization User Group (MVUG), which provides a one-stop center for people to learn about Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure. Previously, he was actively engaged in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and was a tester for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, System Center 2012 SP1, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and Azure Site Recovery. Besides this, he has been a technical reviewer for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform, Hyper-V Network Virtualization Cookbook, and Hyper-V Security, all by Packt Publishing, and also for a video Building and Managing a Virtual Environment with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, Packt Publishing.