Jack Cobben is no stranger to the challenges that enterprises experience when managing large deployments of Windows systems and Citrix^® implementations as he holds over 13 years of experience in systems management. Jack writes in his free time for his own blog, www.jackcobben.nl, and is active on the Citrix^® support forums. He loves to test new software and share his knowledge in any way he can. You can follow him on Twitter via @jackcobben. While he works for Citrix^®, Citrix^® didn't help with or support this book in any way or form.

Lars Flaskager has a combined experience of 26 years in electronics and IT systems, with a successful track record of achieving first class results in IT design and implementation. His main focus and interests are in Citrix^® products and solutions, and for more than 10 years, he has strived to be at the forefront when it comes to knowledge about Citrix^® technology and how it can support businesses. Lars has worked for SimCorp for 12 years, where he gained all his knowledge about Citrix^® solutions. He now works for Conecto, which is the only Citrix^®-dedicated consultancy company in Denmark.

Tom Franken has 11 years of experience with virtualization technologies. He has built and manages XenDesktop^® 5.5 environments, several vSphere systems, a Hyper-V cluster farm, and a vCloud implementation.

Govardhan Gunnala is a technical architect with a blend of cross-platform technologies, understanding and applying them to complex business requirements. He is a Microsoft- and Citrix^®-certified professional specializing in server and application virtualization technologies. He is a skilled IT network security analyst and is highly regarded for sophisticated Perl and PowerShell scripting.

He has designed and delivered various cloud software solutions based on web, Citrix^®, and VMware technologies. He maintains the delivered solutions along with their operational auditing, automation, and simplification. He is also responsible for the data center architecture and network security administration. He earlier worked as a senior systems engineer and as a member of the IT systems.

He is also a technical blogger and a corporate and institutional trainer with more than 8 years of experience in the IT software industry. You can follow his blog at http://gunnalag.com/ and can get in touch with him on http://www.linkedin.com/in/gunnalag.

Jan Hendrik Meier has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He started as a trainee for an IT specialist company. During this time, he had his first contact with products from Microsoft and Citrix^®. Now, he is an expert for infrastructure and virtualization solutions. In the Citrix^® area, he started work with an early XenDesktop^® (then XenApp^®) version—MetaFrame XP. He deepened his knowledge in Citrix products such as Presentation Server^®, XenApp^®, and XenDesktop^®, and started to extend them with knowledge about various other Citrix^® products such as Provisioning Services^™, NetScaler^®, and XenMobile^®.

After staying for half a year in Australia, he picked up a job as a consultant in a mid-sized company, where he helped customers with his big stock of knowledge and a deep understanding of technical coherences.

Furthermore, he writes books and professional articles on different IT technologies. If he finds interesting problems at work, he writes their description and solutions for them on his blog at http://www.jhmeier.de.

Joseph Muniz is a CSE at Cisco Systems and a security researcher as well. He started his career in software development, and later, managed networks as a contracted technical resource. Joseph moved into consulting and found a passion for security while meeting a variety of customers. He has been involved with the design and implementation of multiple projects ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to large federal networks.

Joseph runs the TheSecurityBlogger.com website, a popular resource for security and product implementation. You can also find Joseph speaking at live events, and he is involved with other publications too. Recent projects include being a speaker for Social Media Deception at the 2013 ASIS International conference; author of Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux, Packt Publishing, September 2013; and an article on Compromising Passwords in PenTest Magazine - Backtrack Compendium, July 2013.

Outside of work, he can be found behind turntables scratching classic vinyls or on the soccer pitch, hacking away at the local club teams.

Peter Nap is an experienced Microsoft and Citrix^® specialist with 14 years of experience. Mostly interested in server-based computing environments, his main areas of expertise are XenApp^®, XenDesktop^®, Microsoft Windows Server deployments, and the virtualization of applications, servers, and operating systems.

In his free time, he maintains his own website, http://napplications.nl, with free tools for ICT professionals because programming in C# is his passion. Currently, he is working for CGI as an infrastructure architect.

Peter Nap has also reviewed Getting Started with XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook, XenDesktop 5 Starter, and Citrix^® XenApp^® 6.5 Expert Cookbook, all of which have been published by Packt Publishing.

Puthiyavan.Udayakumar has more than 6 years of IT experience with an expertise in Citrix^®, VMware, Microsoft products, and Apache CloudStack. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing virtualization solutions using various Citrix^® products, VMware products, and Microsoft products. He is an IBM-certified solution architect and Citrix^®-certified enterprise engineer, with more than 15 certifications in infrastructure products. He is the author of the book, Getting Started with Citrix^® CloudPortal^™, Packt Publishing. He holds a Master's degree in Science with a specialization in system software from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, a Bachelor's degree in Engineering through SKR Engineering College from Anna University, and has received a national award from the Indian Society for Technical Education. He has presented various research papers at more than 15 national and international conferences including IADIS (held in Dublin, Ireland) followed by the IEEE pattern.

Florian Zoller works as a lead IT architect for a consulting company based in Germany. He has several years of experience in designing and implementing Citrix^® infrastructures for mid-sized and large deployments. Besides his expertise on XenApp^®/XenDesktop^®, XenMobile^®, and NetScaler^®, he focuses on software distribution and automation technologies such as FrontRange Desktop and Server Management. He is one of the few Immidio Valued Professionals (IVP).