Samir Hammoudi is a Microsoft Full Time Employee (MSFT) working as a Sales Engineer (TSP) on Surface devices and Windows 10 in Tokyo, Japan. During the beginning of his career, he worked as a Senior ICT Consultant in Switzerland for 7 years offering his wide technical expertise on Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory, Exchange, Virtualization, and Windows client deployment and management. Looking for a new challenge, he then moved to Japan and joined Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) on System Center Configuration Manager, where he covered customers all around APAC region. Avid of learning new technologies, Samir is the holder of a wide range of Microsoft certifications as MCSE (Server and Private Cloud) and MCITP (Enterprise Admin, Messaging Admin, and Lync Server Admin). He regularly writes tech notes and articles in both his blogs, one written in English covering Microsoft Devices and Cloud technologies (aka.ms/beanexpert) and one written in Japanese covering mainly Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (aka.ms/mdtjp). Samir loves sharing information to empower the Microsoft IT pros community. He tries his best through his blogs to cover information that is missing from official Microsoft sites. Samir is passionate about sports (football in particular) and about technology in general. Always open to direct contact, he encourages anyone wanting to discuss about anything on Windows client technologies to head over to his blogs and contact him personally.
Chuluunsuren Damdinsuren is a Microsoft Full Time Employee (MSFT) working as a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) in client management area such as Active Directory, System Center Configuration Manager, and Remote Desktop Services for Microsoft Japan. He has an Engineering degree from Osaka University and an MS degree in Computer Science. His primary focus is to design, migrate, deploy, train, and troubleshoot System Center Configuration Manager and Active Directory. He has a couple of technical blogs, and various MSCA and MCSE certificates. He is a passionate fan of football and topcoder.
Brian Mason is a Systems Engineer at Wells Fargo where he manages over 350,000 resources with CM (note that any views expressed in this book are Brian's and not necessarily those of Wells Fargo). Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for Configuration Manager (CM). He currently runs the Minnesota System Center User Group and its website where he blogs. He can be found answering forum questions on TechNet and myITforum.
Greg Ramsey is a Systems Engineer specializing in global systems management for Dell Services. He has a B.S. in Computer Sciences and Engineering from the Ohio State University and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Greg co-authored SMS 2003 Recipes: A Problem Solution Approach (Apress, 2006) and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Unleashed (Sams, 2009). Greg is the co-founder of the Ohio SMS Users Group and the Central Texas Systems Management User Group.