Laura Hunter

Principal Technology Architect

Microsoft

Laura E. Hunter is a Principal Technology Architect for Microsoft IT's Identity & Access Management team, responsible for determining architecture and strategy for Microsoft deployments of Active Directory, ADFS, Identity Management, PKI and RMS. In previous lives, Laura has been an Identity Management consultant, the Active Directory architect for a global engineering firm, and other assorted IT pursuits. Laura has a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Laura is the author of the Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd & 3rd Editions, from O’Reilly Publishing, is an unrepentant ADFS technology zealot, and likes to talk about herself in the third person when providing auto-biographical information. She blogs at http://www.shutuplaura.com, and Twitters (tweets? She’s not cool enough to know the verb form of Twitter) @adfskitteh.