A chemist by education, an electrician by trade, a UNIX sysadmin and Oracle DBA because he raised his hand when he should have known better, an IT Director and consultant by default, and a writer by choice, Charlie is the author of more than 2 dozen computer books on operating systems and enterprise environments, including "Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Companion"(MS Press),  "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administrator's Companion"(MS Press),  "Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion"(MS Press), "Windows Essential Business Server 2008"(MS Press), "Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2"(MS Press), "Microsoft Windows XP Resource Kit, 3rd Edition"(MS Press), and "Oracle DBA Scripting Quick Reference"(Prentice-Hall PTR). He has also written numerous white papers and case studies on Microsoft.com, most recently around Windows HPC Server, and RDS Licensing. Charlie is a regular contributor to the microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general, microsoft.public.virtualserver, and microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs newsgroups.

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