raged 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. About the Reviewers Niklas Akerlund works as Chief Technical Architect - Microsoft Solutions at a consultancy firm in Sweden. He has extensive experience in design and adoption of hybrid cloud solutions with Hyper-V, Azure, Office 365, and EMS. He also works on the design, implementation, and upgrading of private clouds using MS Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center for customers with a strong focus on automation. He often writes posts about virtualization and automation on his blog, http://vniklas. djungeln.se/ you can follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/vniklas. Niklas is the cofounder of PowerShell User Group Sweden; he has also been awarded Hyper-V MVP for his contributions to and love for sharing technology with other IT professionals. Markus Darda is the owner of MD Consultancy, Germany, and DaComp GmbH, Switzerland. As senior Citrix engineer and architect, he works for Enterprise customers all over Europe to design and implement Citrix (XenApp and XenDesktop) environments based on different Hypervisors. As a Citrix and Microsoft trainer, he teaches about Microsoft Server Products and Citrix Products to customers all over Europe. He also works for Citrix as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in different courseware and exams. He has worked for Lanxess, Germany; T-Systems, Germany; Koenen en Co, the Netherlands; and other companies in Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway. He has also worked on Citrix XenApp® 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions, Packt Publishing, and other different courseware from Citrix. James Preston is an IT professional working in the education field and has a broad range of interests, including Virtualiza