Charbel Nemnom is a Cloud Solutions Architect for itnetX (Switzerland) AG and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for cloud and datacenter management. He has over 17 years of professional experience in IT. He works predominantly with the most recent versions of Windows Server, System Center, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack.
Charbel has previously contributed to several books, all of which were published by Packt. He is Microsoft-, Cisco-, and PMI- certified and holds the following credentials: MCP, MCSA, MCTS, MCITP, MCS, MCSE, CCNP, ITIL®, and PMP®. You can follow him on Twitter at @CharbelNemnom.
I would like to say a big thanks to my family and friends for their support and patience while I was busy than usual the last one and half year, and for always supporting the things I want to do. I thank my co-author and fellow MVP Patrick Lownds who offered great feedback, and support throughout this project. Also, I want to thank the Microsoft product group and give them the credit they deserve for helping me make this book as good as possible.
Patrick Lownds is a master-level solution architect working for Pointnext Advisory & Professional Services, in the Hybrid IT COE, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and is based in London, UK.
He currently works with the most recent versions of Windows Server and System Center and has participated in the Windows Server, System Center, and Microsoft Azure Stack Early Adoption Program.
He is a community blogger for HPE and tweets in his spare time. He can be found on Twitter as @patricklownds.
Michael Seidl is a senior consultant and team leader in service management and automation, working for Base-IT, a Gold Partner in Systems Management, located in Austria. He is a three-time System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP and a well certified Microsoft engineer with MCSA and MCSE. His experience as an IT consultant has been growing since 2001 and is mainly focused on SCDPM, SCO, SCSM, and PowerShell. Working with some of the biggest companies in Austria gives him the opportunity to work on exciting projects with complex requirements. Michael is also the founder of au2mator, a self service portal for Microsoft Automation. Follow Michael on Twitter at @techguyat or @au2mator.
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