Florian Rommel was born and raised in his native Germany until the age of 15, when he moved with this family to Central America and then the US. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years and has gained a wealth of experience in many different IT environments. He also has a long and personal interest in Information Security.

His certifications include CISSP, SANS GIAC:GCUX, MCSE, MCSA , MCDBA, and several others. Together with his extensive experience, he is a qualified and recognized expert in the area of Information Security. After writing several Disaster Recovery guides for Windows 2003 and Active Directory environments in large blue chip and manufacturing companies, he now brings you this unique publication, which he hopes will become a key title in the collection of many Windows Server Administrators.

Florian is currently working in the IT Management department at a large global manufacturing corporation in Finland where he has lived for the past ten years. His responsibility includes the Active Directory and the global security infrastructure.