Rodney Buike (MCSE) is an IT Pro Advisor with Microsoft Canada. As an IT Pro Advisor, Rodney spends his day helping IT professionals in Canada with issues and challenges they face in their environment and careers. He also advocates for a stronger community presence and shares knowledge through blogging, podcasts, and in-person events.

Rodney s specialties include Exchange Server, virtualization, and core infrastructure technologies on the Windows platform. Rodney worked as a LAN administrator, system engineer, and consultant and has acted as a reviewer on many popular technical books. Rodney is also the founder and principal content provider for Thelazyadmin.com and a former author for MSExchange.org.

Rodney enjoys all his personal and professional activities and is up-front about the support he gets from his family and especially his wife, Lisa. Without her support, what he does would not be possible.

Kirk Vigil (MCSE, MCSA), coauthor of MCSA/MSCE Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure and How to Cheat at Managing Windows Server Update Services is a senior systems consultant for NetBank, Inc. in Columbia, SC. He has worked in the IT integration industry for over 13 years, specializing in Microsoft messaging and network operating system infrastructures. He has worked with Microsoft Exchange since its inception and continues to focus on its advancements with the current release of Exchange 2007 as well as its integration with the Windows Server line of products.

Kirk holds a bachelor s degree from the University of South Carolina.