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 thank‐you 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.
In writing this book, I have been impressed on a daily basis with the entire PowerShell development team. You folks have delivered high‐quality code consistently, been able to listen to and accept the views of the community, and deliver a world‐class product. Joey Aiello, Steve Lee, and Jim Truher, among others, have been an inspiration.
Another significant inspiration is Jeffrey Snover. From that day in L.A. when he first introduced Monad, he has been an awesome role model. He is smart, focused, and one of the best presenters I have ever had the good fortune to watch. When I noted, on Twitter, that PowerShell Core 6.1 was kind of like Windows PowerShell 2.0 all over again, Jeffrey noted in his understated way that, while it was true, PowerShell had better velocity. An understatement at the very least.
The PowerShell 7 code in this book was developed and tested on a variety of Hyper‐V virtual machines running Windows Server 2019. Because I am a member of the MVP Reconnect program, the Visual Studio team at Microsoft generously provided me with a subscription to Visual Studio Online, from which I obtained the necessary ISO images with which you (and I) can build the VMs. I could not have written this book without their generous assistance.
Thanks too to the PowerShell community. The community has created a massive number of PowerShell resources, code, and documentation. Deep dives, new modules, tips, and tricks—so much awesome content. Thanks to Jeff Hick, Don Jones, Richard Siddaway, and many more.
Lastly, a shout‐out to the PowerShell community at Spiceworks—a friendly bunch of helpful PowerShell addicts (community.spiceworks.com/programming/powershell). If you are keen on PowerShell, consider visiting and joining in.