Acknowledgments
No project like this is ever a solo effort. Besides the authors, who typically get most of the credit, we were lucky to have a great deal of help from various quarters.
Many, many folks at Microsoft helped pinpoint the right answers to often-obscure questions; special thanks to Chris Harris, Paul Bowden, and Alex Seigler for their helpful suggestions and scripts, and to the denizens of the Exchange product discussion mailing lists for asking questions that helped us identify what readers might want to know about the most.
We were fortunate to have a number of Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) as contributors, too. Tom Meunier joined the team midway through the book and contributed recipes in several chapters (especially Chapter 8, where his willingness to risk the integrity of his Windows Mobile smartphone helped us quite a bit); Outlook MVP Patricia Cardoza also contributed several recipes to Chapter 8. MVPs Siegfried Weber and Glen Scales provided help through their blogs and web sites, which contain a wealth of useful minutiae on various Exchange and Outlook scripting topics.
We are particularly grateful to John Peltonen and Peter Kelly of 3Sharp LLC. They willingly put up with our distraction and the hours of work time spent researching and writing over the past year. All of our coworkers at 3Sharp provided support and encouragement time and again.
Robbie Allen, our editor, contributed some recipes from his own Active Directory Cookbook, as well as providing ...