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Some time ago I was contacted by Jeffery Hicks asking if I would be interested to join him in one of his book projects as an author. He explained that this would be a book written by a bunch of people from the PowerShell community worldwide and I gladly accepted his offer…

Only in the last two weeks I’ve gained a view of the list of authors working on this project… and I have to say that I’m very humbled to be in this list!
Here is the list of authors that have joined together on this book project (in random order):

Name	Title	Blog	Twitter	Personal Note
Jeffery Hicks	PowerShell MVP	Link	@JeffHicks	Jeff gave me some great comments on my blog the last years which made me think and investigate
Don Jones	PowerShell MVP	Link	@ConcentratedDon	His sessions about managing Active Directory and PowerShell remoting at the Microsoft TechDays in 2010 made me go into PowerShell since I got a glimps of its capabilities in v2… so to my readers: It’s Don’s fault
Ed Wilson	Microsoft Scripting Guy	Link	@ScriptingGuys	You know: The Microsoft Scripting Guy
Richard Siddaway	PowerShell MVP	Link	@RSiddaway	You want to know about PowerShell and WMI? Read his book PowerShell and WMI
Sean Kearney	PowerShell MVP	Link	@EnergizedTech
Arnaud Petitjean	PowerShell MVP	Link	@apetitjean
Boe Prox		Link	@ProxB	He was one of the judges on the last PowerShell Scripting Games and gave me some very good comments which I’ve learned a lot from
Bartek Bielawski	PowerShell MVP	Link	@Blielawb	Same as with Boe, he was one of the Scripting Games judges and gave some great comments
Mike Robbins		Link	@MikeFRobbins	Mike blogs like crazy, but all very practical and good stuff!
Vadims Podans	PowerShell MVP	Link
Ashley McGlone	Microsoft PFE	Link	@GoateePFE
James O’Neill		Link	@JamesONeill	He was the guy that wrote the original Hyper-V PowerShell module on CodePlex
Jonathan Medd	PowerShell MVP	Link	@JonathanMedd	He’s one of the guys behind the Get-Scripting podcast
Adam Driscoll		Link	@AdamDriscoll	One of the few guys that have a PowerShell blog that make me go “WTF?!” on a monthly basis…
Richard Macdonald	Microsoft PFE	Link	@_RichMac
Kirk Munro	PowerShell MVP	Link	@PoSHoholic
Matthew Reynolds	Microsoft PFE
Tome Tanasovski	PowerShell MVP	Link	@ToeNuff
Trevor Sullivan		Link	@PCGeek86	I’ve met Trevor in Chicago, a truly passionate geek and a fun guy to talk with
Josh Gavant	Microsoft PFE	Link	@JoshuGav
Karl Prosser	PowerShell MVP	Link	@KarlProsser
Arvind Shyamsundar		Link	@arvisam
Jim Christopher	PowerShell MVP	Link	@beefarino
Jen Stirrup	SQL MVP	Link	@jenstirrup
Grzegorz Gaêzowski		Link	@gsgalezowski
Ben Miller	SQL MVP	Link	@dbaduck
Donabel Santos	SQL MVP	Link	http://twitter.com/sqlbelle
Robert C Cain	SQL MVP	Link	@arcanecode
Chris Bellée	Microsoft PFE	Link	N/A
Jason Helmick		Link	@theJasonHelmick
Aaron Nelson	SQL MVP	Link	@sqlvariant
Doug Finke	PowerShell MVP	Link	@dfinke	Read his book PowerShell for Developers… even as an IT Professional you’ll love it (as an IT Pro some previous PoSH knowledge is desired or you’ll end up with a headache)
Jeff Wouters		Link	@JeffWouters	almost forgot to put myself in this list… oops!

The content of the book is something I won’t post about (yet?) but you can bet that it will be a deep dive from A to Z

This is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some time now (along with a few PowerShell books and of course the Hyper-V book from Leandro Carvalho @LeandroEduardo (Hyper-V Administrator’s CookBook)… but more about those someday in the future…

Back on-topic… the Microsoft Private Cloud Computing book…
If you’re a member of the Hyper-V community, you’ll surely know at least one of the following people, or at least by name:

Aidan Finn (Virtual Machine MVP) @Joe_Elway
Hans Vredevoort (former Failover Clustering MVP and recently become Virtual Machine MVP) @HVredevoort
Damian Flynn (Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP) @Damian_Flynn
Patrick Lownds (Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP) @PatrickLownds

Well, just in case these names (and the knowledge and experiences that comes with them) weren’t enough, they got Kristian Nese (Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP) @KristianNese as a technical reviewer… to my knowledge, Kristian lives and breathes private cloud

When you take a closer look at the focus areas of these peeps, you’ll notice that together they cover every single aspect of a private cloud since each has their own focus area within the private cloud…

So, I’m all excited to take a weekend off, sit in the sun with a drink next to me, sunglasses on and read the book Oh wait… it’s not out yet… DARN IT! Now I’ll have to wait