Chris Testa-O'Neill is the Database Product Manager at Remarc Group Ltd. He specialises in SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions and teaches all Microsoft courses in the SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 product range. He also conducts closed company sessions and consults on thier business implementations...

Martin Bell has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He has worked on many relational database systems and since 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) status in June 2003. He runs the Scottish Area meetings of the UK SQL Server...

Richard Siddaway is Microsoft Practice Leader for Centiq Ltd, a Microsoft partner specialising in optimisation, measurement, management and migration involving Microsoft technologies. With over 20 years experience in various aspects of IT Richard is currently concentrating on the Microsoft environment...

David Harley CISSP has worked in computing since 1986, and first fell semi-accidentally into security and antivirus research in 1989. His background includes systems, applications and network support and administration, and includes PCs, Macs, Unix and VMS. He holds qualifications in security auditing...

Paul is a Cyber-defence consultant who provides technical Information Security advice to Financial Institutions. Having worked in technology and engineering disciplines for 15 years, Paul has tried to develop a logical approach to the field of I.S and is excited to be playing a part in this critical...

Craig Murphy is an author , developer, speaker, podcaster , Microsoft MVP and is a Certified ScrumMaster. He enjoys working with .NET, C#, Borland Delphi, XML/Web Services, XSLT and is a great follower of Test-Driven Development, Extreme Programming, agile methods and Scrum. Craig's IT community activities...

Adam Vero - Technical Director of Meteor IT Ltd Meteor IT is a consulting and training services firm based in Leeds providing systems installation and management consultancy for businesses in the professional services sector and a variety of SMEs. The training arm of the company delivers courses...

Stephen Cummins, runs the blog SPSFAQ and has received the SharePoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award from Microsoft for the past 6 years. I live in Kildare, Ireland with his wife, daughter, dog and goldfish. He has managed in excess of thirty SharePoint implementations around the world for...

Paul Stringfellow Communications Manager Gardner Systems Plc. Paul is the communications manager and a senior solutions architect at Gardner Systems based in Liverpool, Paul’s other roles include business development both with clients and investigating and developing new vendor relationships...

Nathan Winters is a Unified Communications Consultant for Dimension Data; a Microsoft Gold Partner on five continents whose clients include over 70% of the Global Fortune 100. Nathan has been working in I.T. for four years and specialises in Exchange, Active Directory and Virtualisation. Recent work...

37 years in IT, I have worked as a contractor for the last 25. I have reinvented myself several times over my career, as my interests have changed. I first learned Microsoft technologies by studying for the MCSE, which I gained in 1997 (NT3.51!) and have upgraded with each subsequent OS version. My current...

Mark is a Sr. System Administrator at the California Institute of Technology. He's been with Caltech for years. He started by building and administering a small Windows NT 4.0 Domain and has since progressed to being one of the three Enterprise Administrators for one of the AD Forests on campus (Yes...

Blake Handler "I’ve been supporting Microsoft products since they introduced MBASIC for S100 computers in the early 1980’s. I later wrote silly games for our college professor, who sold them at “Rainbow Computing” – one of Los Angeles’ first computer stores. After writing more games for the Atari...

Harlan Carvey's interest in computer and information security began while he was an officer in the U.S. military, during which time he earned his master's degree in Electrical Engineering. After leaving military service, he began working in the field of commercial and government information security...

Brian is a messaging and security specialist with over ten years experience in providing training and consulting on Microsoft technologies for a very wide range of customers, small businesses to large enterprises including the Microsoft support and consulting groups for whom he specialises in Exchange...

Rodney Buike, Senior Network Administrator, Monarch Industries Ltd Rodney in an MVP for Windows Server - Directory Services and is the publisher of TheLazyadmin.com , a blog with how-to's, tips, tricks and news useful to other system and network administrators working in Microsoft environments. Rodney...

Jamie is a SQL Server BI professional working for Conchango in the UK. He has been working with SQL Server Integration Services since summer 2004 and has written a number of related articles for SQLIS.com and SQLServerCentral.com. You can read about more of his SSIS experiences at http://blogs.conchango...

Matthew Johnston Technical Consultant, MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS EMEA QUEST SOFTWARE UK LTD. Matt is a Technical Consultant for Quest Software. Whilst his primary focus is around the management of and migration to Exchange 2000/2003, he has been involved in all aspects of the Microsoft Enterprise. He spends...

Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen is a Managing Consultant at Inceptio A/S . Dennis' main focus centers around large-scale enterprise and hosted Windows, Exchange and Active Directory projects. He currently holds MCSE+I and MCSE certifications (And a Masters Degree in Management of Technology). Dennis has a history...

Rhys Wilkins works as a Technical Consultant for ICM Computer Group . Rhys will provide us with a full biography in the coming days - suffice it to say that Rhys has faced many security challenges and come up with innovative solutions to many of them.

Matthew Fisher is a Senior Security Engineer for SPI Dynamics , the expert in Web application security assessment and testing, and has over 12 years experience in the information technology industry. Prior to joining SPI Dynamics, Matthew worked at Computer Sciences Corporation and Digex, where he...

Darren Catterall SC Manager, MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS EMEA QUEST SOFTWARE UK LTD. As SC Manager, Darren is responsible for the Microsoft technical pre-sales team. His chief responsibilities include planning and managing training on new technologies and new products for his team and partners, delivering...

Mark Wilson is a Senior Customer Solution Architect at Fujitsu Services . Since 1994, Mark has been designing and implementing IT infrastructure solutions within the United Kingdom, continental Europe and Australia, operating both in-house and as a consultant, with his main focus areas being Microsoft...

Mark is an Infrastructure Architect working for Capita IT Services, part of the Capita Group of companies which provides Business Process and Technology Outsourcing, Consultancy, Training and other services to a range of customers in both the Commercial and Central/Local Government sectors. Mark started...

Jeremy Moskowitz is the Chief Propeller-Head of Moskowitz, inc . He runs GPanswers.com and WinLinAnswers.com , two community forums to help answer people’s tough questions about Group Policy and Windows/Linux integration. Since becoming one of the world's first MCSEs, Jeremy has performed Windows...