The authors would like to thank our families for their patience and encouragement while we wrote this book. From Carl: merci big brothers Butch and George. From Tim: khawp jai Ratsamy (Mimi), Brian, and Brenda. The authors also wish to acknowledge and thank our technical reviewer, Thuy Le, PMP, EPM Solutions Architect at Microsoft, and Project program manager Adrian Jenkins, for their timely and valuable feedback and responses to our technical questions.

Finally, we thank our project editor, Rosemary Caperton, and our content editor, Susan McClung, for their outstanding work.