About the Reviewers

Nicolai Henriksen, Configmgr MVP works as a chief consultant in Norway and has been for the last seventeen years now. He is among the few that have attained the MVP title in the most comprehensive and most used management system in the world, Configmgr.

Nicolai has been working on Configmgr projects for many customers over the past ten years now and has got quite a few skills in setting up and configuring the system, as well as troubleshooting when things go wrong.

Gert Lievens is currently active as a freelance consultant who has had the opportunity to design, implement, and maintain solutions for multiple large enterprises. He has almost 10 years of experience in Wintel environments, with the past years a strong focus on products in the Microsoft System Center suite and SQL Server.

In his spare time, Gert likes to keep busy with his photography, cooking, technology, and multimedia in general.

Nicolas Milbrand has over 12 years experience in IT. He started working with Configuration Manager (SCCM) since the 2003 release known as System Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003).

Nowadays, he works as a freelance consultant and trainer, specializing in System Center products, especially Operations Manager (SCOM) and Configuration Manager (SCCM).

He's also well acquainted with the other products of the System Center suite and other related technologies. He helps his customers to design, implement, and optimize their System Center infrastructures.

He was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 5 times (2009 to 2013).

I want to thank my wife, Tiffany, who supported and encouraged me in spite of all the time it took me away from her to review this book.

Randall Smith is a senior systems administrator for Adams State University. He has been administering Windows, Linux, and BSD systems since 1999.

He has been active in helping other sysadmins solve problems online and off. He has presented at the Colorado Higher Ed Computing Organization and Educause conferences on topics including Linux KVM and the Ceph storage system.