About the Authors

Don Jones was an on-stage presenter during the launch of Windows PowerShell at TechEd Europe 2006 and was the co-author of the first three published books on PowerShell. He was a 16-year recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, co-founder of PowerShell Summit and The DevOps Collective, and co-author of the bestselling Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches through its first three editions. Don also wrote more than sixty books on a variety of technology and business topics. Today, most of Don’s writing consists of fantasy and science fiction novels, which you can find at DonJones.com.

Jeff Hicks is an IT veteran with over 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis on automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for his PowerShell-related contributions. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. Jeff has taught and presented about PowerShell and the benefits of automation to IT Pros worldwide for over 25 years. He has authored and co-authored several books, writes for numerous online sites, is a Pluralsight author, and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups.

You can learn about all of Jeff’s online identities and activities at jdhitsolutions.github.io.

Additional Credits

Technical editing has been helpfully provided not only by our readers but also by Michael Bender. We’re grateful to Michael for not only catching a lot of big and little problems but for fixing most of them for us. Michael rocks, and you should watch his Pluralsight videos. However, anything Michael didn’t catch is still firmly the authors’ responsibility.