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About the author

Thomas Lee is a consultant/trainer/writer from England and has been in the IT business since the late 1960's. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas joined ComShare where he was a systems programmer building the Commander II time-sharing operating system, a forerunner of today's Cloud computing paradigm. In the mid 1970's he moved to ICL to work on the VME/K operating system. After a sabbatical in 1980/81, he joined what is today known as Accenture, leaving in 1988 to run his own consulting and training business, which is still active today.

Thomas holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCSE (one of the first in the world) and later versions, MCT (25 years), and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times. He lives today in a cottage in the English countryside with his family, a nice wine cellar, and a huge collection of live recordings by The Grateful Dead and The Jerry Garcia band.

I'd first like to thank Jeffrey Snover of Microsoft for the invention of PowerShell. I was lucky enough to be in the room the very first time he presented what was then called Monad. His enthusiasm was infectious, and over 15 years later I am still excited.

A huge thank you has to go to the Packt team: Meeta Rajani, Abhishek Jadhav, Mohd Riyan Khan, and Danish Shaikh. You guys did a great job getting this book out of the door and dealing with the issues that arose during the writing. And thanks too to our most excellent tech reviewer Alexander Wittig. Your reviews were always commendable.

As each recipe evolved, I would sometimes hit problems. I got a lot of help from the Spiceworks community. Their PowerShell forum is a great source of information and encouragement. If you have problems with PowerShell, this is a great place to get a solution.

And finally, I have to thank my wonderful wife, Susan. She has been patient as things progressed, she put up with my bad moods when progress was not as smooth as desirable, and kept me sane when all around me was craziness.

About the reviewer

Alex Wittig is a U.S. based Systems Engineer from Germany. He is a Spiceworks Hero Award winner and Moderator at PowerShell. He holds a BSc in IT Security and about half a pound worth of professional IT certifications. Coffee maven, cat stroker, internet fanatic and lifelong learner.

He can be found on Twitter @alexvvittig.

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