Channel 9 has all (most) of the recent TechEd sessions on line - http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011 There are a lot of other videos on just about every subject you can think of there. Start at http://channel9.msdn.com/
Just about every MS Technology has a home page, like say http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/grouppolicy/default.aspx for group policy. There are evaluation downloads, white papers, videos, you name it. All free, it just takes time to go thru them all. You could become an expert in pretty much anything Microsoft by spending enough time on the Microsoft.com site. There are also a bunch of TechNet resources that are free on line. Start at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb291022. This will get you to the labs, videos, eval software and much more. I've found it all to be pretty good, but some of the older stuff might come up with missing links here and there. ...Tim From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Lab Resources and other educational things Let's start a new thread. Lab Resources and test environments. Microsoft has some nice stuff at their virtual labs. This is all free. It's not in depth but can often provide a nice overview 'this is how it looks like' environment before doing something if you have no resources. You can do them several times. I generally download the pdf lab and do the lab once. http://www.microsoft.com/events/vlabs/default.mspx I have an older HP Media Center Pavilion system with 8GB ram at home. I run WIndows 2008r2 with HyperV on it with the base system being a DC. I can get 4 to 5 very slow guests up on it but frankly don't care about the speed. I have 3 320GB drives I run guests on. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-faq.aspx NOTE: You can download time limited iso's from Microsoft. The downside is you have to rebuild your environment every 120 days. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx Get good at scripting setups for your environment and this is less painful then it could be. (user account creation/password, etc) Currently I blew up my test lab and it's getting rebuilt. If I need to expand my guests, I run Virtual Box on my own system which I game with. It's a few years old but can get 2-3 guests up if I don't task them much. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Your own domain name. They are cheap. It's useful to have something that is 'yours'. Nothing teaches you like getting something real to interact on the Internet. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
