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Acknowledgments

Many people assisted in bringing this book to fruition. First and foremost, I must thank my

agent, Claudette Moore of the Moore Literary Agency, who ensured the proper publisher was

found for this book. Martin DelRe at Microsoft Press has been awesome to work with and is an

enthusiastic supporter of scripting in general and of Windows Management Instrumentation

(WMI) in particular. Melissa von Tschudi-Sutton, Barbara Moreland, and Maureen Zimmerman,

also at Microsoft Press, have kept my nose to the grindstone and forestalled my natural ten-

dency to procrastinate. Bob Hogan has not only read the entire manuscript several times and

offered numerous insightful comments, but he has also run (and run and run) all the scripts ...