About the Authors

DON JONES is a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft’s prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for his work with Windows PowerShell. He writes the Windows PowerShell column for Microsoft TechNet Magazine, blogs at PowerShell.org, and authors the “Decision Maker” column and blog for Redmond Magazine. Don is a prolific technology author and has published more than a dozen print books since 2001. Don is a Senior Partner and Principal Technologist for Concentrated Technology (ConcentratedTech.com), an IT education and strategic consulting firm. Don’s first Windows scripting language was KiXtart, going back all the way to the mid-1990s. He quickly graduated to VBScript in 1995 and was one of the first IT pros to start using early releases of a new Microsoft product code-named “Monad”—which later became Windows PowerShell. Don lives in Las Vegas and travels all over the world delivering IT training (especially in PowerShell) and speaking at IT conferences.