Microsoft 365 for IT Pros (2027 Edition)

Tony Redmond is the lead author and editor for Office 365 for IT Pros. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Tony had a long corporate career as an executive and now runs his own consulting company. Over thirty years ago, Tony began his writing career by creating the “ALL-IN-1 Handbook” about Digital Equipment Corporation’s popular Office Automation product (including email and calendar). Fourteen published books later, ten of which cover the evolution of Exchange Server from V4.0 (1996) to Exchange 2013 (2012), allowed Tony to experience the transition of the creation of technical books from a manual process involving correcting paper galley drafts to the point we are at now with monthly updates for Office 365 for IT Pros. An MVP since 2004, Tony is a frequent speaker at conferences and communicates with the world through Twitter, his Thoughts of an Idle Mind blog, the Office 365 for IT blog, and his regular column on Practical365.com.

Paul Robichaux, an Office Servers and Services MVP since 2002, is currently the senior director of product management for Keepit. Paul’s unique background includes stints writing Space Shuttle payload software in FORTRAN, developing cryptographic software for the US National Security Agency, helping giant companies deploy Office 365 to their worldwide users, and writing about and presenting on Microsoft’s software and server products. Paul’s an instrument-rated multi-engine pilot, holds a United States Marine Corps forklift license, and occasionally blogs (at http://www.paulrobichaux.com) and Tweets (@paulrobichaux). Paul looks after the chapters covering cloud adoption, managing tenants, managing users, managing clients, managing videos, and managing tasks.

Michel de Rooij is a Microsoft 365 Apps and Services MVP from The Netherlands. He helps organizations in their cloud journey with a focus on Identity and Messaging, especially in the Microsoft domain. This translates to Microsoft Exchange, Entra ID, Active Directory, and Teams. Michel is a big enthusiast of automation, so automating tasks or creating tools supporting project activities using PowerShell is something he enjoys doing. his technical blog or Twitter.

Brian Desmond is a Principal at Ravenswood Technology Group. At Ravenswood, Brian helps commercial enterprise and higher education customers solve problems surrounding Identity and Access Management, Security, and Critical Infrastructure such as Active Directory and PKI. With a track record of successfully executing complex consulting engagements in these areas, Brian has delivered hundreds of enterprise scale deployments around the world at Fortune 100 and larger scale organizations as well as dozens of K-12 and Higher Education institutions and public sector customers. Brian was recognized annually as a Microsoft MVP for Identity and Access Management for his contributions to the Microsoft technical communities at large from 2003-2019. Brian is the author of Active Directory, 5th Edition published by O’Reilly as well as a frequent contributor to leading industry publications. You can often find Brian speaking at conferences and events worldwide as well as on LinkedIn.

Juan Carlos is a Telecommunications Engineer with more than 18 years of experience in diverse Microsoft products and technologies and a strong background in the SharePoint platform. He currently works as a Microsoft 365 SME & Delivery Manager focusing on the Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint platforms. Juan Carlos is an Office Apps & Services MVP and first received the MVP award in 2008. He is also co-editor and co-director of the free Spanish digital magazine about Microsoft Products and Technologies: CompartiMOSS (www.compartimoss.com). To date, Juan Carlos has co-authored 18 books and several articles about SharePoint & Office 365 platforms in Spanish and English.

Tony is a Principal Product Manager specializing in backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft 365 workloads. Since beginning his career in technical support in 1989, he has held a variety of technical and customer-facing roles, with expertise in archiving, eDiscovery, cloud migrations, and now backup and recovery solutions. His background as a technical support specialist, consultant, sales engineer, and product manager provides him with valuable insights into the challenges faced by organizations of all sizes and effective strategies to address them. Tony has been recognized as a VIP within the Arctera VOX community and serves as an ambassador for the Pragmatic Institute.

Christina Wheeler is a Principal FastTrack Solution Architect at Microsoft, working in engineering as part of the Dynamics 365 Service Agents Pod. She’s a highly respected Power Platform expert and technical trainer who has been a techie geek since she was young.Christina started programming when she was 11 and learned how to build her first computer at age 13. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Christina worked as a .NET developer in the financial services industry before becoming a consultant specializing in SharePoint, Dynamics 365 (F&O and CRM), and the Power Platform. She has consulted for various companies worldwide, architecting and implementing SharePoint, Power Platform, and other Microsoft 365 solutions for financial, educational, commercial, and government organizations. Her publications include contributions as the technical editor of “SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog,” co-author of “SharePoint 2010 Field Guide,” “SharePoint 2013 Inside Out,” and author of “Mastering Microsoft Teams: Creating a Hub for Successful Teamwork in Office 365.” Christina received her first MVP award October 2017 in M365 Apps & Services and became a Business Applications MVP in 2022 before retiring from the MVP program to join Microsoft. You can catch Christina on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Leah Theil started her career as an IT Administrator in the late 1990s, spending nearly 20 years managing on-premises data centers, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange starting with Exchange 5.5. She then transitioned to migration consulting, helping enterprises plan and execute the migration of their data from on-premises environments to Microsoft 365. On her path to her current role as a Director of Product Management at Keepit for the Data Management & Intelligence team, Leah also led and managed UX teams, and engineering teams to build enterprise security software at Quest Software. She remains passionate about improving the quality of life for IT administrators everywhere. In addition to her corporate role, Leah founded UXTec, LLC, a consulting practice focused on software usability and technical consulting. She also serves as an ambassador for the Pragmatic Institute, where she guides and mentors product professionals.