Thomas Lee - PowerShell 7: A Guide to Using PowerShell 7 to Manage Windows® Systems

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Thomas Lee

PowerShell 7 for IT Pros

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To my wife, Susan, who has been my loving companion and a constant source of strength, affection, and humour, especially during the COVID19 crisis.

To my daughter, Rebecca. Your smiles keep me going.

To my grandmother, Louise Runk Robinson, who worked in the US Library of Congress and lit a spark in me that would ultimately lead me to write books.

To my friend, Jeffrey Snover, who has been an inspiring role model.

Thank you all for your support. You mean the world to me.

Thomas Lee is a technical trainer, consultant, and author who specializes in the Microsoft Windows platform. Thomas began in the IT industry in 1968 as a computer operator operating an IBM 360/67 running IBM's TimeSharing System. His career spans five decades and has included the mainframe, minicomputers, time sharing (aka very early cloud computing), AI, and other emerging technologies.

Thomas has worked in the consulting field, first with Arthur Andersen (today known as Accenture), where he witnessed the birth of the PC as a tool for clients across the board. He continues to provide consulting services to many longstanding clients.

He has also written extensively, both for the technical trade in the United Kingdom and for the worldwide publishing industry. This book marks his fourth on PowerShell. He has written hundreds of articles about Microsoft and other technologies and maintains a technical blog at tfl09.blogspot.com.

Thomas was a Microsoftcertified trainer for more than 25 years and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award 17 times. He was a fellow in the British Computer Society and a chartered engineer. He serves as a global board member for the MVP Reconnect program.

He lives today in an old cottage in the English countryside. He enjoys his garden, a wellstocked wine cellar, an extensive collection of Grateful Dead live recordings, and the love of his family. He loves working with PowerShell too!

Jim Topp is a Windows Server systems administrator with more than 16 years of experience. He has been scripting and automating with PowerShell for more than 12 years. He is a community member of PowerShell.org and has edited several books written by Don Jones. Jim lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Every book requires a great team of talented people to ensure a great product. While an author can write text and code, the developmental and technical editors focus the writing and ensure that the scripts are accurate and work as shown. Publishing a book is an honour as well as an incredible learning experience for me. I have always believed that you truly have to know your subject to write a book, and I certainly have learned a lot in the process.

First, my deepest gratitude to Wiley, and the fantastic team at Wiley, for bringing this book to life: Kenyon Brown, Pete Gaughan, and others. Thank you for recognizing that I had a story to tell.

A huge thankyou to my developmental editor, Jim Compton, for your wisdom, kindness, and patience during through my writing process. You have been a great inspiration to me, and I am indebted for your contributions.

Writing hundreds of lines of PowerShell 7 code and transcribing it accurately into both the book's text and the screenshots is an amazingly difficult job. Jim Topp did an outstanding job of checking every line of code and every screenshot as well as making great suggestions to improve what we have here.