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. For five years he wrote the Windows PowerShell column for Microsoft TechNet Magazine. He currently blogs at http://Power-Shell.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. He’s now a curriculum director for IT Ops content at Pluralsight, an online video training platform. 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, when it gets too hot there, near Duck Creek Village in Utah.