Will Schmied

Will Schmied, BSET, MCSE, is a directory, storage and messaging engineer for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has written for Microsoft, Pearson and several other organizations. He has also worked with Microsoft in the MCSE exam-development process and is the founder of the popular MCSE certification portal, www.mcseworld.com. When not working, Will can usually be found spending time with his children, breeding Labrador Retrievers or dishing out frags on his X-Box.

Orin Thomas

Orin Thomas (MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, Linux+) is a writer, editor, and systems administrator who works for Certtutor.net. His experience in IT ranges from providing first-level networking support at a university to systems administrator for one of Australia's largest companies.

Will Schmied (BSET, MCSE, CWNA, MCSA, Security+, Network+, A+) is a consultant and author of several Exam Cram and Training Guide books and is the principal partner of Area 51 Partners.

Ed Tittel, Series Editor of the Training Guide Series and the Exam Cram 2 Series, runs LANWrights, Inc., a training and writing firm that specializes in networking, computer security, and markup languages.

Ed Tittel

Ed Tittel has been writing about and training others on computing topics since the 1980s. He’s contributed to over 140 computer books, and written many thousands of Web and magazine articles. Perhaps best-known for creating the Exam Cram series of IT certification prep books, Ed writes regularly for Tom’s Hardware, various TechTarget Web sites, and InformIT. Contact Ed through his personal Website at www.edtittel.com, and check out his Vista musings at www.viztaview.com.