Ron Barrett has been a technology professional for 9 years, spending time working in various capacities for several major financial firms and Dot-Coms. Ron has spent the last 61-2 years as the Director of Information of Technology for a Financial Service firm in NYC. For the past several years, along with his IT duties, Ron has been a contributing author for technology books. Contributing chapters to such titles as: Windows 2000 Enterprise Storage Solutions and Exam Cram 70-244: Supporting & Maintaining NT Server 4, as well as being featured as one of the Vista Masters in the book Tricks of the Windows Vista Masters and appearing in several industry magazine interviews most notably a featured article in Network World’s 2006 Annual Salary Survey issue. Ron is currently coauthoring an untitled Microsoft Group Policy book, and is contributing to an Administrator’s Guide to Office Communications Server 2007.