Danny Hermans

Danny Hermans is a Senior Partner Technical Advisor for System Center for Broad Commercial Services EMEA based in Sweden, with almost 20 years of experience in various consulting projects, ranging from green field design over optimization to migration assignments. Since joining Microsoft three years ago, he has been a Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE), Tech Lead, and Risk Assessment Program (RAP) as a Service Developer for Operations Manager. Throughout his career, Danny has developed a love of fine-tuning Microsoft products and seeks to enhance performance wherever possible to add value to his customer outcomes. Danny’s blog can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/b/dhermans.

Uwe Sturtz has worked for Microsoft since 2007 as a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for System Center Technology in Global Business Support Germany. Mainly focused on System Center Operations Manager and other monitoring solutions, he has a background of more than 18 years in system management. He leads the Microsoft German PFE-SCOM community and is a member of the EMEA SCOM Tech Lead team. Uwe is responsible for leading the SCOM PFE RAP as a Service process and teaches the Operations Manager engineers in EMEA to deliver this proactive service to Microsoft premier customers with the right technology and quality skills.

Mihai Sarbulescu is a Support Escalation Engineer on the Cloud & Datacenter Management team for the EMEA region. He is based in Romania and has been working for Microsoft for the past five years. Before working at Microsoft, he was a web developer. Mihai enjoys debugging, programming, computer games, and martial arts. His blog can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mihai/.

Mitch Tulloch is a well-known expert on Windows Server administration and cloud computing technologies. He has published hundreds of articles on a wide variety of technology sites and has written, contributed to or been series editor for over 50 books. Mitch is one of the most popular authors at Microsoft Press–the almost two dozen ebooks on Windows Server and System Center he either wrote or was Series Editor on have been downloaded more than 2.5 million times! For a complete list of free ebooks from Microsoft Press, visit the Microsoft Virtual Academy at http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ebooks.

Mitch has repeatedly received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his outstanding contributions to supporting the global IT community. He is a ten-time MVP in the technology area of Windows Server Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing. You can find his MVP Profile page at http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Mitch%20Tulloch-21182.

Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews, a weekly newsletter focused on system admin and security issues for the Windows Server platform. With almost 100,000 IT pro subscribers worldwide, WServerNews is the most popular Windows Server--focused newsletter in the world. Visit http://www.wservernews.com and subscribe to WServerNews today!

Mitch also runs an IT content development business based in Winnipeg, Canada, that produces white papers and other collateral for the business decision maker (BDM) and technical decision maker (TDM) audiences. His published content ranges from white papers about Microsoft cloud technologies to reviews of third-party products designed for the Windows Server platform. Before starting his own business in 1998, Mitch worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Productivity Point.

For more information about Mitch, visit his website at http://www.mtit.com. You can also follow Mitch on Twitter @mitchtulloch.