About The Cable Guy

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The Cable Guy articles are written by Joseph Davies, an award-winning technical writer in the Windows Server User Assistance (UA) group at Microsoft who has been a technical writer and instructor of TCP/IP and networking technology topics since 1992.

As an instructor, he developed and delivered a large amount of training material for both internal Microsoft training organizations and for a series of courses taught at a local community college. At Microsoft, he wrote introductory and advanced courses on TCP/IP and a course on the Windows NT 4.0 Routing and Remote Access Service.

As a technical writer for Windows product documentation, he wrote the following:

• The Windows 2000 product documentation and Windows Server 2000 Resource Kit chapters on TCP/IP, routing, remote access, and virtual private networking
• The Windows XP product documentation on Internet Protocol security (IPsec) and IPv6
• Portions of the Windows Server 2003 product documentation and Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference sections on TCP/IP, IPsec, IPv6, Internet Authentication Service (IAS), remote access, routing, and virtual private networking
• The Windows Server 2008 R2 online documentation for DirectAccess

He is author of the following books published by Microsoft Press:

• Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP) (with Tony Northrup) (included with the Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit)
• Understanding IPv6, Second Edition
• Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services
• Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows
• Understanding IPv6
  Winner of a Distinguished Award and Best of Show in Technical Publications by the Puget Sound chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and a Distinguished Award by the International STC.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference (with Thomas Lee)
  Winner of a Merit Award by the Puget Sound chapter of the STC.
• Deploying Virtual Private Networks with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (with Elliot Lewis)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference (with Thomas Lee)
  Winner of a Merit Award by the Puget Sound chapter of the STC.

He has also written the free online book TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows and numerous white papers and articles available from the TechNet Technologies and Solutions Web sites.

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