About The Mark Minasi, MCSE, is one of the world's leading Windows authorities. He teaches classes in 15 countries and is a much sought-after speaker at conferences and industry gathering keynotes. His firm, MR&D, has taught tens of thousands of people to design and run Windows networks. Mark has written over 15 books for Sybex, including the market-leading Mastering Windows Server 2003 and The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide, which has sold over one million copies. Special The audience includes several million systems administrators, help-desk personnel, MIS professionals, and corporate programmers. Everyone who depends/will depend upon Windows Server 2008 needs these high-level, unbiased, readable instructions for upgrading to, and using the largely undocumented features of, Windows Server 2008 R2.