Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) focused on creating
solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and
related .NET technologies. He is the author of ten books on
Microsoft technologies, including
Microsoft SharePoint:
Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 (Berkeley: Apress,
2007). When not writing about technology, he can be found
presenting at industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and
SharePoint Connections. Hillier is a former U. S. Navy submarine
officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He can be
reached at scot@shillier.com.
Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security,
A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+, is the
president of Thor Projects LLC, which provides SharePoint
consulting services to clients around the country. He has
contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other
publishing projects. He was recently honored to become a Microsoft
MVP for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that, he was a
Microsoft Commerce Server MVP, and before that, a Microsoft Windows
Servers-Networking MVP. He blogs at
http://www.thorprojects.com/blog. You can reach Robert at
Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.
Adam Robert Buenz is a SharePoint Architect and
Developer for ARB Security Solutions, LLC (sharepointsecurity.com).
He focuses on security-centric collaboration environments that
build off the SharePoint and .NET Framework. Focusing heavily on
the security of SharePoint, along with integration of sister
Microsoft platforms into SharePoint (such as ForeFront, ISA, MIIS,
and DPM), he has developed against several of the largest health
care, financial, and federal implementations of SharePoint within
the United States. He is co-author of Professional SharePoint
2007 Development (Indianapolis: Wiley, 2007) and co-author of
7 Microsoft® Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint®
Server 2007 (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2007). He lives wherever
he is contracted, and can be contacted at
adam@sharepointsecurity.com.
Andrew Connell is an independent consultant,
instructor, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP with a focus
on Web Content Management. He has authored and co-authored numerous
books on the subjects of Microsoft Content Management Server and
SharePoint, including the first published books on the latest
release Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 and Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Connell has spoken on the subject of
Office SharePoint Server 2007 development and Web Content
Management at various community events in the southeast United
States, as well as national conferences such as TechEd, SharePoint
Connections, VSLive, and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference. You
can reach him at me@andrewconnell.com or subscribe to his popular
SharePoint and Web Content Management focused blog at
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog. He would like to thank his wife,
Meredith, for the support and encouragement in all his efforts; his
son, Steven, who's always there to put things in perspective (as
well as put a smile on his face); and the other SharePoint MVPs who
make up the most incredible and diverse group of talented
professionals that he has been privileged to be a part of.
Stacy Draper is 37 years old, married, founder
of Wild Wires, LLC (a consulting firm based in South Florida),
author, and member of PMI. He holds an MCSD certification and MVP
award. Being involved with Web development since 1993 has led his
life in a very interesting direction. He started out in UNIX and,
since 1997, has had a strong concentration in Microsoft
technologies. Draper enjoys public speaking and has spoken at
conferences, code camps, and user groups. Draper would like to
dedicate his contribution to this book to his wife, who is his
driving force, and his little bundle of joy, Alicia.
Luis Du Solier Grinda is a Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server MVP. He worked a few years ago in one of the top
Business Schools in Mexico City (IPADE) as a System Administrator,
as well as designing and implementing the corporate SharePoint
intranet for the company. After he became an IW and Collaboration
expert, he joined one of the best Microsoft Certified Partners in
Mexico City (PlexIT Consulting). Since then, he's been working on
many projects designing, creating, and implementing collaborative
solutions related to the Microsoft Collaboration platform,
SharePoint Products and Technologies. He has provided new
technology solutions based on SharePoint and Office platforms for
many companies. He also helped to manage the User Group from his
country, and writes several blogs
(English-http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ldusolier; and
Spanish-http://sharepointmx.mvps.org/blogs/ldusolier,
http://geeks.ms/blogs/ldusolier).
Todd Klindt is an IT Professional working
mainly with SharePoint technologies. He currently works at UGS and
maintains their internal SharePoint deployment. He has been in the
IT field for more than ten years, getting his MCSE in 1996. He has
written for Windows IT Pro and TechNet magazines, as well as
serving as a presenter at TechEd. Klindt lives in Ames, Iowa, with
his lovely wife Jill. You can visit his Web page at
http://www.toddklindt.com, or email him at todd@toddklindt.com.
Jason Medero, MCP, MCT, MVP (WSS) is a systems
architect with a concentration in Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server and its related Microsoft technologies. He is an employee of
B&R Business Solutions, a central New Jersey-based firm
specializing in SharePoint and surrounding technologies,
infrastructure, real-time communication, and application
development. He is an active member of the SharePoint community,
contributing as a mentor for both the SharePoint Portal Server
(SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) forums on MSD2D.com,
along with many other popular forums. He would like to dedicate his
contributions to this book to his family, colleagues, and soul
mate, Kate.
Dustin Miller is the President and owner of
SharePoint Experts (www.sharepointexperts.com), a leading provider
of SharePoint Products and Technologies Training. He authored the
first course devoted to SharePoint development and customization,
the SharePoint Bootcamp (www.sharepointbootcamp.com), and also
maintains two popular SharePoint Community sites, SharePoint
University (www.sharepointu.com) and SharePoint Blogs
(www.sharepointblogs.com). He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his
wife, his son, and his white German shepherd dog. He would like to
thank his wife, Julie, for her support and confidence during his
crazy-busy work days and hectic travel schedule, and his son,
Graham, for his uncanny ability to sniff his feet whenever Dad most
needed a laugh.
Shane Perran is a Microsoft MVP for Windows
SharePoint Services living in St. John's, Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada. He has been designing online user experiences for
more than a decade. His strong passion for visual presentation, Web
standards, and usability has paved the way for a successful
transition into the SharePoint Products and Technologies world,
where he has become well-known in the SharePoint customization
space over the past five years. Perran's SharePoint Customization
blog (http://www.graphicalwonder.com) is a popular stop for
customization experts across the globe. He would like to say thanks
to his family for their constant support and encouragement,
especially his fiancé, Amanda, for her patience and late-night
proofreading. He would also like to thank his friends and calming
voices of JC, BD, RC, and WN.
Joris Poelmans has more than seven years of
experience with Microsoft development. He works at Dolmen
(www.dolmen.be), a Belgian IT services company and Microsoft Gold
Partner. His main competence area is Information Worker solutions,
where he currently focuses on the SharePoint Products and
Technologies platform. In October 2005, he was awarded with the
Microsoft MVP award for Windows SharePoint Services. He is also one
of the founding members of Belux Information Worker User Group
(BIWUG at http://www.biwug.be). He regularly posts some SharePoint
stuff on his blog at http://jopx.blogspot.com.
Heather Solomon is a Web designer with more
than ten years of experience designing and deploying online
applications and sites. Specializing in SharePoint branding,
layout, and usability, she has extensive experience with SharePoint
technologies and Web Content Management. Currently, Solomon works
delivering training, branding, and consulting services to help
corporations maximize SharePoint's potential through her company,
Solomon Creative. She is active in the SharePoint community, speaks
at community events and conferences, is a contributing author to
books and publications, and is active on her blog at
www.HeatherSolomon.com/Blog. She would like to thank her family for
their love and support. She says that words can't describe the
enrichment they bring to her life. She is also grateful for the
chance to be involved in the SharePoint community. Being a part of
this group has been one of the more unique experiences in her
life.
Nick Swan is a Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server MVP who has been developing with Microsoftbased technologies
for seven years since completing Software Engineering in college.
Having become interested in developing on top of SharePoint, he
decided to start the SharePoint User Group UK
(http://www.suguk.org). His particular focus recently has been the
Business Data Catalog (BDC), which has led to the development of
the application BDC Meta Man (http://www.bdcmetaman.com). You can
visit his blog, SharePointNick.com, at
http://www.sharepointnick.com.
Jan Tielens is currently working for the
Belgian company U2U (http://www.u2u.be), which delivers
developer-oriented courses focusing on Microsoft technology all
around the world. His areas of expertise are Microsoft BizTalk
Server, ASP.NET, and especially Information Worker technologies,
including SharePoint. He became an MVP for Microsoft SharePoint
Portal Server in 2005 because of his work in the SharePoint
community. He's known for his blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/jan) and
the famous SmartPart Web Part. Tielens is also a frequent speaker
on various Microsoft events across Europe. Besides writing code, he
also enjoys photography and traveling with his wife and
daughter.
Mike Walsh works as a consultant in Finland.
Originally from the UK, he has worked in several European countries
since 1970-first on mainframes, and from the early IBM PC days, on
micros. He first came across SharePoint Team Services (STS) at a
Microsoft conference toward the end of 2001, and started asking
(and then answering) questions on it in the public STS newsgroup.
Later, he started up an FAQ for the newsgroup to cover the usual
questions being asked. Walsh became an MVP for STS in October 2002,
and has been a SharePoint MVP (now for Windows SharePoint Services)
ever since.
Shane Young is a recovering Server Farm
Administrator and active SharePoint zealot. From his home base in
Cincinnati, Ohio, he travels the country, and sometimes the world,
supporting, teaching, and evangelizing for all things SharePoint.
He is the founder of his own SharePoint consulting company, and has
recently been invited to speak at TechEd on the subject of
upgrading SharePoint. When he is not living the glamorous life of a
Microsoft MVP, he can be found spending time with his lovely new
bride, Nicola, and their dogs, Tyson and Pugsley.