About the Authors

Todd Klindt has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, and was an amateur computer nerd before that. After finding out in college that his desire for food and shelter and his abilities at programming were not compatible, he decided to try being an administrator instead. He got his MCSE in 1997 and spent a lot of time taming Windows Server, Exchange Server, and the unlucky SQL Server here and there. In 2002 he was tasked with setting up a web page for his IT department. He couldn’t program, and he couldn’t design with HTML to save his life. He found SharePoint Team Services on an Office XP CD and decided to give it a shot. Turns out SharePoint was just what the doctor ordered. As each version of SharePoint was released, Todd became more and more enamored with it. In 2005 Todd was awarded Microsoft’s MVP award for Windows SharePoint Services. Since then he has written for a couple of SharePoint books, a couple of magazine articles, and had the pleasure of speaking in more places than he can believe. To pay the bills he’s a SharePoint consultant and trainer with SharePoint911. He can be found on Twitter dispensing invaluable SharePoint and relationship advice as @ToddKlindt. For the web 1.0 folks he also has a blog at http://www.toddklindt.com/blog. Todd lives in Ames, Iowa with his lovely wife Jill, their two daughters Lily and Penny, and their two feline masters, Carlos and Louise.

Shane Young has over 14 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past six years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant, author, and trainer. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 50,000 users. Shane has been awarded the SharePoint Server MVP designation for five consecutive years. He is also a renowned speaker at national and international Microsoft conferences. He is the author of several of the leading SharePoint 2007 and 2010 SharePoint Training courses, several Microsoft whitepapers, numerous books, and various SharePoint 2010 videos. You can contact Shane on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter@ShanesCows, via email at [email protected], his blog at http://msmvps.com/shane or through his company’s website at http://www.SharePoint911.com. Shane lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Nicola, his son Grant, and their two dogs.

Steve Caravajal is a Principal Architect with the Microsoft Corporation. Steve has 23+ years experience in technology and product development, consulting, and training. At Microsoft, Steve’s focus includes architecting enterprise solutions that include SharePoint, Office, and custom .NET applications. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 10 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Mathematics, a Doctoral degree in Chemistry and Computer science, and he is an Adjunct Professor at a couple of local universities. Steve has several patents and published articles, speaks at conferences and has written two previous books: SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions, and Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration. He has also written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET.