Acknowledgments

As you can imagine, a book of this scope and magnitude is not an easy undertaking, even with three coauthors. There are many, many people who had a hand in making this possible. First, we’d like to thank the entire PowerShell product team at Microsoft. Many of them took time from their busy schedules to answer our questions and offer guidance on a number of new features, even while they were still being developed!

The authors would also like to thank the fine folks at Manning Publications: Cynthia Kane, Karen Miller, Maureen Spencer, Liz Welch, Linda Recktenwald, Janet Vail, and Mary Piergies. They have taken what can be a grueling process and turned it into something pleasant yet productive in helping us bring this book to publication. That is not easy.

We also thank the cadre of what we think of as “real-world” reviewers who offered their opinions on how we could make this a book that they, and you, would want on your bookshelf. They include Adam Bell, Andre Sune, Bart Vermeulen, Bruno Gomes, Eric Flamm, Eric Stoker, Gary Walker, Greg Heywood, Innes Fisher, James Berkenbile, Jelmer Siljee, Jonathan Medd, Kais Ayari, Klaus Schulte, Mike Shepard, Peter Monadjemi, Richard Beckett, Rolf Åberg, Santiago I. Cánepa, Thomas Lee, and Trent Whiteley.