About the Author

Ryan Boud has been working in the IT field since 1998 when he started working part-time on a service desk while studying at Goldsmiths College, University of London. After graduating, he worked his way up to manage the customer IT service desk. He then moved into IT management and development, creating internal applications and middleware for third-party applications. Recently, Ryan moved to Inframon, The Cloud Transformation Specialists, as a System Center and Desktop Implementation Consultant. He has worked on numerous different implementations of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 for a variety of customers in the public and private sectors.

I would like to thank James, Sumeet, and others at Packt Publishing for all their assistance in writing this book. Additionally, I would like to thank the technical reviewers for their fantastic feedback and guidance.

I would especially like to thank Gordon and Sean at Inframon whose belief in me has encouraged me to take this opportunity to write a book, which has always been on my list of career goals.

My final thanks go to my wife, Sarah, who has always believed in me and has helped keep our children busy while I was writing this book! Additionally, I would like to thank her for all her support; without her, I wouldn't be able to do the job I love doing and have wanted to do for so long.