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Ben Lye

Ben Lye Ben Lye is a senior systems administrator at a multi-national software company. He has over 10 years experience supporting and administering Windows and Exchange, and has been MCSE and MCP certified since 1999. Ben is passionate about automating and streamlining routine tasks, and enjoys creating and using tools which make day-to-day administration easier.

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Elizabeth Ayer

Elizabeth AyerElizabeth Ayer is the product manager for SysAdmin software tools  at Red Gate Software. Elizabeth currently works in the Exchange email archiving software team. Contact Elizabeth.

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Helen Paterson

Helen PatersonHelen Paterson is an Infrastructure Engineer at Red Gate Software. After obtaining a degree in Computing and Information System, and implementing a new server & networking infrastructure to enable and assist in the delivery of a major SAP ERP, Helen joined Red-Gate in 2009.  Helen is currently working on the configuration of Microsoft system centre to enable operating system deployment & software distribution. Helen has recently installed PST Importer on 200+ machines.

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Jaap Wesselius

Jaap Wesselius is a senior Exchange consultant for DM Consultants, a Microsoft Gold Partner with a strong focus on messaging and collaboration solutions. Prior to working for DM Consultants Jaap worked for 8 years for Microsoft Services in The Netherlands, specializing in Exchange Server. Jaap is a BSc, MCSE, MCITP, and MCT and was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award (Exchange Server) for his contributions to the Dutch messaging and collaboration community. Besides Exchange Server, Jaap is also very active in virtualization and is a founder of the Dutch Hyper-V community. You can reach Jaap at J.Wesselius@dm-consultants.nl or Jaap@hyper-v.nuages.

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James Allison

James AllisonJames Allison is a Software develope at Red Gate Software currently working on a PST importing tool. The tool first finds PST files on networked computers and then optionally imports the PST files into Exchange 2010. The tool, PST Importer 2010, will be released in early September 2010. T o register your interest in advance, please email Michael Francis at Red Gate Software.

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Johan Veldhuis

Johan Veldhuis is a Techncial Consultant for Communicativ. Prior to working for Communicativ Johan worked several years for AXIANS a system integrator in The Netherlands, first as service desk engineer and later as server & storage engineer. Johan is a MCSE-M and MCITP and was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award (Exchange Server) for his contributions to the messaging and collaboration community. Johan has also his own website where he blogs and publishes tutorials mostly about Exchange. You can reach Johan at j.veldhuis@communicativ.nl.

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Marine Barbaroux

Marine BarbarouxMarine Barbaroux is the  manager of SysAdmin software tools  at Red Gate Software. Marine currently manages the Exchange email archiving software team. Contact Marine.

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Michael Francis

Michael Francis Michael Francis is the founder of this blog, SysAdmin Talk, the editor of Simple Talk SysAdmin, and the SysAdmin brand manager at Red Gate Software. Michael currently works in the Exchange email archiving software team. Contact Michael.

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Mike Pfeiffer

Mike PfeifferMike Pfeiffer works for a government agency as Senior Systems Administrator. In his current position, Mike is the lead resource managing a large server environment that includes Active Directory, Exchange, VMware and Hyper-V. Previously, Mike worked for many years as an Active Directory and Exchange consultant where he specialized in large scale migration projects. Mike Pfeiffer has been in the IT field for eleven years and hold several technical certifications, including Microsoft MCITP, MCSE, MCPD, MCTS, MCSA, as well as others from vendors such as Cisco and Citrix. Read Mike's blog at www.mikepfeiffer.net.

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Reka Burmeister

Reka Burmeister Reka Burmeister is an experienced software tester who is currently working on breaking the developers' code as much as possible of Red Gate Software's PST Importer and Exchange Server Archiver. "I like to make software cry," said Reka, "along with pulling the heads off frogs and treading on daffodils, it is fun!" On a more serious note, the work of Reka and the other testers on the SysAdmin team result in top quality tools with few, if any bugs.

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Robert Chipperfield

Rob ChipperfieldRobert Chipperfield is a Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Red Gate Software's Exchange Server and SysAdmin tools division. Part of the team behind Exchange Server Archiver, Exchange email archiving software, he focussed on the Exchange communication layers and the Outlook Add-in. He joined Red Gate after graduating from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Computer Science. Outside of work, Robert enjoys many things geeky including amateur radio, tending to an ever-growing collection of servers,  and occasionally wandering up hills.

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Sean Duffy

Sean DuffyAll round IT geek living in the greater London area. Working as an IT Infrastructure engineer specialising in virtualisation, hosting and support. Sean enjoys all forms of IT, and writes about the bits that intrigue and entertain him on his Shogan.Tech blog. When he’s not learning about the latest Server hardware, platform or software, you'll probably find him developing iPhone apps in objectiveC, gaming online, or on a dirt bike riding enduro-X.

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Wesley "Nonapeptide" David

Wesley DavidWesley "Nonapeptide" David is an IT Professional most commonly saddled with the title "Systems Administrator". As of early 2010 he walked away from a traditional job as an internal Systems Administrator to start a hosted services company. Believing this is a large part of the future of IT and systems administration in specific, he blogs about SaaS, Cloud and general SysAdmin topics at his personal blog www.TheNubbyAdmin.com

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