g, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: November 2014 Production reference: 1221114 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-78217-780-7 www.packtpub.com Credits Author Project Coordinator Ryan Boud Aboli Ambardekar Reviewers Proofreaders Niklas Akerlund Simran Bhogal Markus Darda Maria Gould James Preston Steve Maguire Lai Yoong Seng Indexer Acquisition Editor Mariammal Chettiyar James Jones Graphics Content Development Editor Abhinash Sahu Sumeet Sawant Production Coordinator Technical Editors Arvindkumar Gupta Madhuri Das Rohit Kumar Singh Cover Work Arvindkumar Gupta Copy Editors Roshni Banerjee Merilyn Pereira 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 encou