loss4words
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- Aug 31, 2007
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Hey everyone,
My question may seem awkward but I really need some help. I'm currently working as a help desk/customer support technician in a mid-size company. Other than a project here and there calls come far and between and most of the time I just sit there and read or surf the web just to kill time. This week my boss, who's a network admin at my company, said that some time after christmas he would have me create my own test network. My objective would be to configure, implement and be able to manage this test network using Windows Server 2003. Obviously, he doesn't expect me to do it all over a short period of time (as I'm sure he knows exactly what I'm capable of ) but I really hope that with some help I could do this.
In the past, I've taken a course designed for 70-290 certification exam and I've also watched CBT Nuggets 70-290 series of videos. As of now my only experience with servers is somewhat good understanding of Active Directory and GPOs, configuration of RAID, setting up the permissions for individual users and groups, and managing server hardware. Not much. I really hope to impress my boss, or if anything, this should be a good learning experience for me.
The problem, however, is that I'm not so sure where to start after I make my server a DC, and how to procede with setting everything up. I am looking online for something like a Step-by-Step how to Guide but I can't find much. I'm also considering buying more CBT Nuggets stuff since I've found it to be very informative and easy to learn, but I'm not sure which series of videos I need for what I'm hoping to do. The more I search, the more frustrated I become and sometimes I'm even thinking of telling my boss that I don't have enough knowledge to do this. I really need as much help as I can get. Any advice, suggestoins, links or anything would be really apprciated...Thanks, and sorry for a long post.
My question may seem awkward but I really need some help. I'm currently working as a help desk/customer support technician in a mid-size company. Other than a project here and there calls come far and between and most of the time I just sit there and read or surf the web just to kill time. This week my boss, who's a network admin at my company, said that some time after christmas he would have me create my own test network. My objective would be to configure, implement and be able to manage this test network using Windows Server 2003. Obviously, he doesn't expect me to do it all over a short period of time (as I'm sure he knows exactly what I'm capable of ) but I really hope that with some help I could do this.
In the past, I've taken a course designed for 70-290 certification exam and I've also watched CBT Nuggets 70-290 series of videos. As of now my only experience with servers is somewhat good understanding of Active Directory and GPOs, configuration of RAID, setting up the permissions for individual users and groups, and managing server hardware. Not much. I really hope to impress my boss, or if anything, this should be a good learning experience for me.
The problem, however, is that I'm not so sure where to start after I make my server a DC, and how to procede with setting everything up. I am looking online for something like a Step-by-Step how to Guide but I can't find much. I'm also considering buying more CBT Nuggets stuff since I've found it to be very informative and easy to learn, but I'm not sure which series of videos I need for what I'm hoping to do. The more I search, the more frustrated I become and sometimes I'm even thinking of telling my boss that I don't have enough knowledge to do this. I really need as much help as I can get. Any advice, suggestoins, links or anything would be really apprciated...Thanks, and sorry for a long post.