Building a SharePoint 2016 Home Lab

Book Preface

The idea for this book materialized when I was on the Apress.com web site looking for free books to give away at the Tampa Bay SharePoint user group (tbspug). It was at this moment, when I came across the wideopen, easy-to-read, authorship contract, that I recalled a statement that one of my recent clients had said, “Dang, Stacy! You really should write a book!” And, so I did. I think other people had told me that in different ways and at various times; but I hadn’t actually thought of writing a book until I was perusing the Apress.com web site. When I saw how straightforward Apress is about the process, I knew I could do it. I’ve always tried to share whatever I could; so, this just seemed like the natural next step.

I believe everything that happens in our lives and the knowledge that we acquire are due to a series of events, a series of successive nows, which continue indefinitely and are interrelated. With that thought in mind, I’d like to thank all the people who’ve contributed to my SharePoint and IT related learnings and success. I’m pretty sure I won’t get all of you, and some of you might even wonder why you’re on this list, saying to yourself, or maybe out loud, “But, I don’t know anything or very much at all about SharePoint,” or, “How could I’ve possibly affected you?” Well, you contributed to my learning or success in some direct or indirect way, either as my student, my boss, my team member, or as a mentor of some sort—you helped me.

So, with that being said, thank you to Samar Singh Tomar, Adam Watson, Keller, Area 4 circa 2008, Jeanne J., Kelton Harris, Pablo Lomas, Allison Anderson, Lynn McCullough, Peter Nagaro, Chuck, Edward Manuel Jr., Karen Soltis, Akbar, Anees, Faraz Munshi, Tom Takach, Hari Pasupuleti, Tom Egan, Tom Lamantia, Trax, Beth at Magenium, Tom Simpkins, Tim Sullivan, Brad Buoy, Andrew Philipson, Leo Doyle, Leo Lovely, John Heim, Tim “Master Sergeant B” Bridgham, Virgil Aurand, Paul “Mr. Heat Meiser” Caouette, John Furmanek, Dan Nicholson, Seibert, Andrew Schroeder, Ari Ammon, Len Terranova, Art Garcia, Paul Beaton and the Softball team, Ciara, Dee at Dawn foods, Hedrick, Reed Beaver, Rajai Rahaman, Fabian Hernandez, Brian Swiger MCT, Brian Caudill, Eric Perry, Jim Heuser, Patrick Cox, Stephanie Cox, Gary L. Cox, Brenda at HKlaw, Daniel Payne DBA, Eric Buckley DBA, Scott B. DBA at spt.local, the infrastructure guys at Holland and Knight, the infrastructure guys at Dawn Foods, and the infrastructure guys at the Blue Cross andBlue shield association, Ramesh Balakrishnan DBA, Bahareh Saati, Chadd Sommerfield, Alejandro Barragan, Kim Moore, M.C. Perkins, Howard Carl, Cuy Nuegebauer, Paul Artis, Jesse Brown, Eric Chang, Eric Andino, Rob Beverly, Shane Marler, Lourdes, Tom McHugh, Chris Jurkowski, Dan Bogstad, Ben Uhlmann, Lucy Simpkins, Carter and Jordan Simpkins, Paige Simpkins, Wade Simpkins, Raymond J. Simpkins II, Kristy Ukauka, Laresa Simpkins, Gloria and Tim Uhlmann, and my mother and father—Judy and Raymond J. Simpkins, and anyone else that I forgot to mention.

I would also like to thank my editors at Apress, Gwenan Spearing, Laura Berendson, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, and Melissa Maldonado, and all the other members of the team, for all their help in getting this to press, my first book ever. And, I’d like to thank you, for actually reading this acknowledgement, if you’ve purchased a copy, and even if you haven’t.

And last, but definitely not least, thank you to my wife, Krista, “the best wife ever” for putting up with all the late nights and complete weekends that were absorbed by the creation of this text. I love you more than I’ll ever be able to say in words or actions!