About the Reviewer

Florian Klaffenbach started  his IT career in 2004 as a 1st and 2nd level IT support technician and IT salesman trainee for a B2B online shop. After that, he changed to a small company working as IT project manager for planning, implementing, and integrating from industrial plants and laundries into enterprise IT. After a few years, he changed course to Dell Germany. There, he started from scratch as an enterprise technical support analyst and later worked on a project to start Dell technical communities and support over social media in Europe and outside of the US. Currently, he works as a Technology Solutions Professional for Microsoft, specializing in hybrid Microsoft cloud infrastructured.

Additionally, he is active as a Microsoft blogger and lecturer. He blogs on his own page, Datacenter-Flo.de, and the Brocade Germany community. Together with a very good friend, he founded Windows Server User Group Berlin to create a network of Microsoft IT Pros in Berlin. Florian maintains a very tight network with many vendors such as Cisco, Dell, and Microsoft and several communities. This helps him grow his experience and get the best out of a solution for his customers. Since 2016, he has also been the Co-Chairman of the Azure community Germany. In April 2016, Microsoft awarded Florian the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Cloud and Datacenter Management. In 2017, after joining Microsoft, Florian became an MVP reconnect member.

Florian has worked for several companies and Microsoft partners such as Dell Germany, CGI Germany, and msg services ag. Now he has joined Microsoft Germany in a technical presales role and supports customers in getting started with hybrid cloud infrastructures and topics.

He has also worked on the following books:

• Taking Control with System Center App Controller
• Microsoft Azure Storage Essentials
• Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure
• Mastering Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013
• Implementing Azure Design Patterns
• Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
• Mastering Active Directory
• Exchange PowerShell Cookbook
• Implementing Azure Solutions