{"id":10820,"date":"2010-08-26T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2010-08-26T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:38:22","slug":"lots-of-people-to-thank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10820","title":{"rendered":"Lots of People to Thank!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re getting to the end of the production phase (reviewing the final PDF versions that go to the printer) of Mastering Hyper-V Deployment<\/a>, the Hyper-V book that I have written.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bunch of people to thank:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll start with Sybex \u2026 you all know who you are.  From helping me with the original proposal, keeping the project on schedule, to keeping the quality high, and fixing my many<\/em> grammatical mistakes (should I now reveal that I got a lower D in English in secondary school?), everyone has been of great help.<\/p>\n

My co-author was Patrick Lownds<\/a>, another virtual machine MVP in the UK.  Patrick came in late on the project and bailed me out on a couple of chapters, taking on one particular chapter that I would not have been able to do in time, but that I thought was central to the story: DPM 2010.<\/p>\n

The technical editor was Hans Vredevoort<\/a>, a clustering MVP (and honorary virtual machine MVP) in the Netherlands.  Hans made this a better book, spotting mistakes and providing new ideas.<\/p>\n

Mark Minasi<\/a> was kind enough to contribute a foreword to the book.  Mark gave me my first opportunity with Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>, and he\u2019s taught me a lot over the last 5 years.<\/p>\n

Wilbour Craddock<\/a> in Microsoft Ireland helped me out at a crucial point in the project.  I hit a pretty big snag at one point and things got delayed.  Will helped out, not to mention providing a lot of help to me over the last few years.  He, Dave Northey and Enda Flynn have given me some opportunities over the past 2 years that have made a huge difference, and helped me get to a position where I could write this book.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s my friends in the MVP<\/a> program.  I\u2019ve learned a lot from those folks, including the MVPs, leaders, and various people in the product groups, the Virtual Machine and Failover Clustering groups in particular.  A lot of what I learned, be it new ideas, configurations, etc, have shaped my view of Hyper-V and System Center (nothing under NDA, honest!).<\/p>\n

Finally, a lot of folks I know online supported and encouraged me over the last 5 months: my friends on the Minasi forum, and words of encouragement from folks by email or on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Thank you all!<\/p>\n

Aidan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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