Jordan Krause is a Microsoft MVP for the Forefront network security technologies, and specializes in DirectAccess, which is a part of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 and the new Unified Remote Access (URA) in Windows Server 2012. As a Senior Engineer and Security Specialist for IVO Networks, he spends the majority of each workday planning, designing, and implementing DirectAccess using IVO's DirectAccess Concentrator security appliances for companies of all shapes and sizes.
Committed to continuous learning, Jordan holds Microsoft certifications as an MCP, MCTS, MCSA, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator. He regularly writes tech notes and articles about some of the fun and exciting ways that DirectAccess can be used, here: http://www.ivonetworks.com/news/.
Jochen Nickel is an Identity and Access Management Consultant working for Inovit GmbH in Switzerland, and tries everyday to understand new business needs of his customers, to provide a better, more comfortable, and flexible workstyle through Microsoft Remote Access technologies.
He has been working in a lot of projects, proofs of concepts, and workshops with Direct Access and Forefront Unified Access Gateway since they were added to the Microsoft Remote Access technologies.
Jochen is very focused on DirectAccess, Forefront Unified Access Gateway, Active Directory Federation Services, and Forefront Identity Manager.
Newly added to his interests is Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012.
Furthermore, he developed and wrote a lot of workshops and articles about these topics.
His greatest passion is to spend as much time as possible with his family to get back the energy to handle such nice and interesting technologies.
He regularly blogs at www.inovit.ch/blog.idam.ch.
John Redding has worked as a Technical Support Engineer on various Internet server products such as the first generation Netscape SuiteSpot and the second generation iPlanet server suite since the mid 90s. In 2003, John joined Whale Communications, where he worked as a Senior Support Engineer for the e-Gap and IAG SSL VPN products, which ultimately led to product support for UAG.
John Redding is currently a Senior Consultant in the Identity and Access Management group at Certified Security Solutions, where he regularly does DirectAccess deployments.