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Don Jones is an IT industry expert on the Microsoft business technology platform, and is globally recognized for his efforts in evangelizing the PowerShell task automation and configuration management framework.

Background
Don is Senior Partner and Principal Technologist with Concentrated Technology and founder and President of PowerShell.org, a community dedicated to Microsoft’s chief administrative automation technology.

Jones is the author of more than 45 books, including Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Microsoft Windows Administrator's Automation Toolkit, and Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI, among others. Don’s devotion to technology education culminated in The Nine Principles of Immediately Effective Instruction, an instructional design book that outlines Don’s bestselling approach.

Don has presented at IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and TechMentor. He is an accomplished IT journalist with features and monthly columns inMicrosoft TechNet Magazine and Redmond Magazine, and in the online industry magazine TechTarget. He is a technology educator for in-person classes and video-based training.

Don is also a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft’s prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award.