Preface

I sat in a darkly lit restaurant with Don Jones and Chris Gannon having a great conversation about the importance of Don’s latest book in his “Month of Lunches” series—and how no one until him seemed to be trying to help the working administrator—the guy or gal in the trenches. As an IT pro teacher and speaker, his concepts of how to best help admins is important to me and I wished other authors and teachers would take up the charge. After venting my profound appreciation of his work, I noticed a smile on Don and Chris’s faces. I was about to be set up. I was about to be tricked by my two friends.

Chris pointed out that I had written a book for admins about 15 years ago on IIS 4.0—in fact it could possibly be the first book written and ...

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