Matthew Hester - Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0

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To Deb, my strength and heart, thank you so much for all of your unwavering love and support. I would not be who I am today without you. I love you.

To Nicole, Mitchell, and Caitlin, thank you for teaching me the meaning of grace. I love you all very much.

Matt

To Kevin, my wonderful husband who survived my talks about PowerShell from a developer's perspective while writing, offered suggestions when I needed another person's real-world IT perspective, and has been very supportive of me through my wrediting process.

Sarah

Acknowledgments

Being able to write this book has been a blessing, and I could not have done it without a lot of top-notch help. First, I would like to thank my fabulous technical editor and coauthor, Sarah, for going on this journey with me. Sarah, your knowledge and insight are inspiring. Thank you for making sure this book is rock solid. Second, I would like to thank Dick Margulis. Dick, you truly are an editor extraordinaire who I have thoroughly enjoyed working with. I hope I did not drive you to nutty with all of my great new features. Thank you, sir. Lastly, a huge thanks to Agatha Kim not only for giving me my first opportunity to write a book but also for encouraging me to write this book. Thank you so much for your guidance and support over the past few years.

Matt

I would like to thank my IT friends for encouraging me and inspiring me as I explored many of the topics in this book. Thanks to Jay R. Wren, my tech editor for the appendixes. As always, Jay made sure I didn't stray technically and inspired new changes. Thanks to all of our editors at Sybex, and especially thanks to Dick Margulis, our development editor, who shepherded us when we got carried away. Most of all, I would like to thank my awesome coauthor and great friend, Matt Hester, for the many commas and great features that I had to cut out while tech editing, the laughs throughout the process, and the advice when it came to writing the appendixes. Matt inspired me to create the term wreditingwriting and editing, as I had originally been set as a tech editor for Chapters 112 and later was added as a coauthor. It has been a great adventure, and I look forward to more adventures with Matt!

Sarah

About the Authors

Matt Hester is a seasoned Information Technology Professional Evangelist for Microsoft. Matt has been involved in the IT Pro community for more than 15 years. Matt is a skilled and experienced evangelist presenting to audiences nationally and internationally. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matt was a highly successful Microsoft Certified Trainer for more than eight years. After joining Microsoft, Matt has continued to be heavily involved in IT Pro community as an IT Pro Evangelist. In his role at Microsoft, Matt has presented to audiences in excess of 5,000 and as small as 10. Matt has also written four articles for TechNet magazine, and his first book was Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference . Matt is a movie buff with a massive DVD collection; he also runs marathons and dreams of joining the PGA tour. Matt cites his father as his role model: The older I get, the smarter he gets. Funny how that works.