First and foremost, I'd like to thank my family who have always been a source of inspiration and encouragement. Without their support, who knows where I'd be. I am very thankful to my love, Ruby Liu, who has always stood by me, helped me at all times, and has even smilingly got me cups of tea during my sleepless nights of writing!

Writing a book is an interesting journey. Now that it's completed, looking back over the last several months I'm amazed at how lucky I've been to come in contact with so many terrific people.

I would also like to express my gratitude to my friend and co-author of this book, Sherif Talaat, for giving me so many useful suggestions on this book.

I was fortunate to have three great guys as reviewers for my book, Mark Andrews, Karim CAMMOUN, and Tong Young. They spent countless hours providing feedback and examples, researching specific content, offering lots of encouragement, and engaging with me in great discussions about PowerShell.

Thanks to the editorial and project team at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book, and also being patient and understanding through the process of writes, re-writes, technical edits. So a really big thanks goes to them, especially Rukhsana, Dayan, Arshad, and many more.

The team at Packt Publishing, it was an honor and privilege working with you.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank my friends who helped me directly or indirectly by giving me moral support.