Acknowledgments

First, I’d like to thank Pearson for giving me yet another opportunity to write a book, with special thanks to Joan Murray and the rest of the Pearson team for shaping the book into something great.

This book could not have come to fruition without the expertise of Susan Hanley and Chris Bortlik. Their experience and perspective are invaluable to projects like this; every team should be lucky enough to have members like them. Sue and Chris provided useful insight, fantastic writing, and real-world expertise to make this a high-quality book. Their passion is unmatched in the SharePoint and Office 365 space.

As an authoring team, we’d like to thank our early reviewers, including Andy Kawa, Shelley Norton, and Ken Heft, who all provided insightful feedback and went above and beyond the call of duty. And thanks to Donal Conlon, who was instrumental in contributing useful insight and writing to the Web content chapter, and Dan Casey, who provided a fantastic user interface for the same.

Thank you to Corey Hanley, Michele Jones, and Donal Conlon for testing the Office 365 and on-premises security user experience; Tom Byrnes for permission to be quoted in Chapter 4; and the team of Marisa Bortlik, Brian Hanley, Corey Hanley, and Jamie Hanley for tacitly agreeing to serve as our “pretend” users so that we could test various permissions without creating fake names.

Special thanks to my wife, Sung, who, with a smile, always cheered me on, even in the wee hours.

And a final thank-you to the SharePoint community, who have read our previous books, encouraged us to write another one, and without whom none of this would be possible.

—Scott Jamison
Boston, MA
May 10, 2013