Windows Server ® 2008: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Writing Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant was a lot of fun, and updating the book for Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2) was even more so. As I set out to write Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant and then to update the book for this second edition, my goal was to determine what had changed and what new administration options were available. As with any new release of an operating system, and especially with Windows Server 2008 R2, this meant a great deal of research to determine exactly how things work—and a lot of digging into the operating system internals. I was thankful I’d already written several books on Windows 7 and its new features, so I had a starting point of reference for my research, ...