J. Peter Bruzzese
J. Peter Bruzzese is an independent consultant and trainer. He has consulted with clients ranging from Goldman Sachs to Microsoft and has instructed for leading training organizations such as CBT Nuggets, New Horizons, and ONLC.com. Bruzzese contributes to Redmond and WindowsITPro magazines and several leading tech sites and speaks regularly at the MCP TechMentor conferences. He was a contributing author on Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2007 (Que, 2006) and has also written and presented Microsoft Windows Vista LiveLessons (Que, 2007).
J. Peter Bruzzese
J. Peter Bruzzese, MCSE+I, MCT, CNA, is a network specialist with eight years of experience in information technologies. He is the co-founder of LAN-Slide Technologies, LLC, which provides specialized instruction in certification training and networking.
Ed Tittel
Dan Balter is the Chief Technology Officer for InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner company. He works as an IT consultant and trainer for both corporate and government clients and has worked with several different network operating systems throughout his 20-year career. Dan takes pride in turning complex, technical topics into easy-to-understand concepts. Dan is a Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST), a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. He specializes in Microsoft networking technologies, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and other security solutions in addition to designing and implementing messaging and business solutions for large and small organizations.
Dan is the author of Exam Cram 2: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment and a co-author for the best-selling books Exam Cram 2: Windows XP Professional and Exam Cram 2: Windows 2000 Professional, all published by Que Publishing. Dan frequently speaks at conferences across North America, including Advisor DevCon conferences and Windows & .NET Magazine Connections conferences. A graduate of USC's School of Business in 1983, Dan has authored more than 300 video-based and CD-ROMߢased computer training courses, including instructional titles on installing, configuring, and administering Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. He is also a featured video trainer for courses on Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, and Intuit's QuickBooks small business accounting software. Dan is the video trainer for ExamBlastߗindows XP Professional and for the QuickBooks Pro training series on video and CD-ROM from BlastThroughLearning.com.
Dan and his family live in the Santa Rosa Valley area in Southern California, near the city of Camarillo. Dan lives with his lovely wife, Alison; their 8-year-old daughter, Alexis; their 5-year-old son, Brendan; and their golden retriever, Brandy. When he's not writing, researching, or consulting, Dan enjoys traveling with his family, swimming, playing racquetball and basketball, rooting for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team and the L.A. Lakers, going for long walks, listening to music, and exploring new age spirituality. Dan can be contacted via email at Dan@TechPartners.info.
Philip Wiest is a nationally known professional technical trainer who has presented more than 1,200 Cisco and Microsoft seminars to more than 37,000 students throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia since 1989 for Skillpath Seminars, CompuMaster Seminars, Prime Learning International, and Dun & Bradstreet. He has earned several prominent certifications, including the MCSE; CCNP; CCDA; Network+; Server+; Security+; A+; and, most recently, the new MCDST designation.
He delights audiences by crashing (often with little effort) and then resurrecting (often with much effort) unsuspecting software programs and network applications. His unique, irreverent, solutions-oriented style is at once humorous and insightful.
Philip's clients include The Walt Disney Company, the FBI, American Express, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, ARCO, Bank of America, KPMG, Sony, EMI Records Group N.A., the National Association of Realtors, Warner Bros., and on and on.
Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he has published more than 200 newspaper and magazine articles, received dozens of national training awards, and completed 15 marathons. He resides in Santa Monica, California, never more than a stone's throw from a keyboard or a microphone.
Ed Tittel
Ed Tittel is a 30-year-plus veteran of the computing industry who has worked as a programmer, a technical manager, a classroom instructor, a network consultant, and a technical evangelist for companies that include Burroughs, Schlumberger, Novell, IBM/Tivoli, and NetQoS. He has written and blogged for numerous publications, including Tom's IT Pro, PearsonITCertification, and GoCertify; and is an author on more than 100 computing books with a special emphasis on information security, Web markup languages and development tools, and Windows operating systems.
David Watts
Will Willis (MCSE, A+ Certified Technician, Network+, B.A.) is a senior
network administrator for an international software-development company in
the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas area. He shares responsibility for the network and
server infrastructure with other members of the network administration team,
primarily focusing on Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory and
Exchange 2003. He also shares responsibility for server monitoring, documentation,
maintaining disaster recovery preparedness, antivirus strategies, firewalls/
network security, planning and maintaining the infrastructure (servers, routers,
switches, hubs), and ensuring the reliability and availability of network resources
for the global network.
Will began as a help desk tech, providing technical support over the phone for
PC hardware and software and later moved to a desktop/LAN support specialist
position working on a team of eight to support a 3,000+ user multiple-site
network. From that position, Will moved into a job as a network manager,
where he also administered multiple Active Directory domains and servers running
BackOffice applications Exchange Server, IIS, Site Server, SQL Server, and
SMS. He enjoys spending time with his family and writing and recording original
music when not busy being a techie and being active in church, including
teaching Sunday School. Will has co-authored numerous books and scores of
technical articles. He has also written practice exams and tech-edited many
titles. His first album of guitar-based instrumental music, Darkness into Light,
was released in 2002. Will is also a seminary student, finishing a Master of Arts
degree in Theology in the fall of 2006. More information on Will can be found
at www.willwillis.us.
.David Watts
David Watts is an Advisory Specialist for Netfinity Servers at IBM's ITSO Center in Raleigh. He manages residencies and produces redbooks on hardware and software topics related to IBM Netfinity Servers. He has authored over a dozen publications; his most recent include Netfinity Performance Tuning with Windows NT 4.0, Implementing Netfinity Disk Subsystems and Netfinity Server Management. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and has worked for IBM for over 10 years. He is an IBM Professional Server Specialist. He can be contacted via e-mail at dwwatts@us.ibm.com.
Will Willis
Will Willis is currently a network systems manager responsible for a six-subnet NT/Windows 2000 network running Exchange Server, IIS, SQL Server, and SMS.
Will Willis
ALL THREE AUTHORS have world-class experience in deploying and administering Windows 2000 & NT at the world's largest companies...
- WILL WILLIS is currently a network systems manager responsible for a six-subnet NT/Windows 2000 network running Exchange Server, IIS, SQL Server, and SMS.
- DAVID WATTS helped to design and deploy Active Directory for networks with over 100,000 users, at one of the largest companies to join Microsoft's Windows 2000 Early Adopter Program.
- TILLMAN STRAHAN has been responsible for NT networks and nationwide domain structures at several Fortune 500 companies, and currently consults on very high availability NT cluster solutions.
