Acknowledgments

There wouldn’t be a PowerShell book without a PowerShell product in the first place and PowerShell wouldn’t exist without the vision of its chief architect Jeffrey Snover. His guidance and comments over the years have been invaluable.

Thanks also to the PowerShell team for making Jeffrey’s vision into a reality and helping build the thriving community that exists today.

To all the MEAP readers and reviewers, many thanks for your feedback. We’ve incorporated as much of it as possible. In particular, we’d like to thank the following who reviewed the manuscript at various stages: Benoît Benedetti, Braj Panda, Chris Frank, Craig Forrester, Edgar Knapp, Jan Vinterberg, Lincoln Bovee’, Michel Klomp, Mike Taylor, Nick Selpa, Zalán Somogyváry, Stephen Byrne, Thomas Burl, and Wayne Boaz. Thanks to all of you for your patience. This book took way, way too long to complete.

Finally, special thanks to everyone at Manning who did their usual wonderful job to make this happen: Michael Stephens, Jenny Stout, Linda Recktenwald, Jodie Allen, Elizabeth Martin, Kevin Sullivan, Corbin Collins, Janet Vail, and all the others who worked behind the scenes. All we can say is thank you—this book wouldn’t have happened without you.

And more super-special thanks to Tobias Weltner, our technical development editor, who started some very interesting conversations and our technical proofreader James Berkenbile who checked our code.