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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the following people for their kindness and support inmaking this book possible.Will Schmied, the President of Area 51 Partners, Inc. and moderator of https://traloihay.net sharing his considerable knowledge of Microsoft networking and certification.Karen Cross, Meaghan Cunningham, Kim Wylie, Harry Kirchner, Kevin Votel, KentAnderson, Frida Yara, Jon Mayes, John Mesjak, Peg O’Donnell, Sandra Patterson, BettyRedmond, Roy Remer, Ron Shapiro, Patricia Kelly, Andrea Tetrick, Jennifer Pascal, DougReil, David Dahl, Janis Carpenter, and Susan Fryer of Publishers Group West for sharingtheir incredible marketing experience and expertise.The incredibly hard working team at Elsevier Science, including Jonathan Bunkell,AnnHelen Lindeholm, Duncan Enright, David Burton, Rosanna Ramacciotti, RobertFairbrother, Miguel Sanchez, Klaus Beran, and Rosie Moss for making certain that our visionremains worldwide in scope.David Buckland,Wendi Wong, Daniel Loh, Marie Chieng, Lucy Chong, Leslie Lim, AudreyGan, and Joseph Chan of Transquest Publishers for the enthusiasm with which they receiveour books.Kwon Sung June at Acorn Publishing for his support.Jackie Gross, Gayle Voycey, Alexia Penny, Anik Robitaille, Craig Siddall, Darlene Morrow,Iolanda Miller, Jane Mackay, and Marie Skelly at Jackie Gross & Associates for all their helpand enthusiasm representing our product in Canada.Lois Fraser, Connie McMenemy, Shannon Russell, and the rest of the great folks at JaguarBook Group for their help with distribution of Syngress books in Canada.David Scott, Annette Scott, Delta Sams, Geoff Ebbs, Hedley Partis, and Tricia Herbert ofWoodslane for distributing our books throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua NewGuinea, Fiji Tonga, Solomon Islands, and the Cook Islands.Winston Lim of Global Publishing for his help and support with distribution of Syngressbooks in the Philippines.A special thanks to Deb and Tom Shinder for going the extra mile on our core four MCSE2003 guides.Thank you both for all your work.Another special thanks to Daniel Bendell from Assurance Technology Management for his24x7 care and feeding of the Syngress network. Dan manages our book network in a highlyprofessional manner and under severe time constraints, but still keeps a good sense of humor.v