About the Reviewers
Steve Barnard is a System Center consultant and has been involved in the IT industry for 15 years after starting out as an accountant. After making a career change, he started out in the field of desktop support for a large educational establishment before moving on to server administration along with desktop deployment. This involved working with Server 2003 and early versions of MDT and BDD. He started working with Configuration Manager during the later releases of SMS 2003 and has been involved with the product ever since. He currently works at Inframon Ltd., which is a System Center consultancy company, designing and configuring System Center solutions for medium- and large-scale organizations.
Brian Mason is a systems engineer at Wells Fargo, where he manages over 350,000 resources with CM. Brian is a Microsoft MVP for Configuration Manager (CM). He currently runs the Minnesota System Center User Group and its website, where he blogs as well. He has also worked on Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Torsten Meringer, ConfigMgr MVP since 2005, is a self-employed senior consultant who is located in Germany. He started his own business in 1999 and primarily focuses on designing, migrating, deploying, training, automating, and troubleshooting Microsoft's deployment and management solutions such as System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Orchestrator, and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit in small- to large-scale companies that have a range of 500 to more than 200,000 clients. He manages the German ConfigMgr blog, http://www.mssccmfaq.de, and holds various MCT, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, and MCITP:EA certifications. He is also an author and a speaker at various Microsoft events.
Greg Ramsey, Enterprise and Client Management MVP, holds the position of Enterprise Tools Strategist at Dell, Inc. He has a BS degree in Computer Sciences and Engineering from Ohio State University. Greg co-authored System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed, Sams Publishing, and Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook, Packt Publishing. He is a co-founder of the Ohio SMS Users Group and the Central Texas Systems Management User Group.