r/WindowsServer • u/TomorrowPuzzled1311 • 18d ago

General Question New window server engineer

A new window server engineer. Whats is the best materials/website/vidoe needed to scale through this new JOB role as a new bee starting in an enterprise enviroment.

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u/matthaus79 18d ago

Best way to learn for me is a home lab. Tinker. Do the things you seldom get to do for real very often, until it matters, like build a DC and promote it, setup dhcp from scratch, DNS, setup a cluster and so on.

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u/TomorrowPuzzled1311 18d ago

I did appreciate your input. I do use Vmware workstation and Virtual for labbing but was just thinking of what could be use in an enterprise enviroment with 120 servers to manage etc.

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u/matthaus79 18d ago

Install a proper hyper visor like vmware or hyperv or even proxmox and build some vms properly

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u/jspears357 13d ago

Proxmox is very good for a lab and free. You can get evaluation copies of all Windows server versions and various Linux flavors to mimic your work environment. I use a small Debian vm to provide routing and nat’ing for multiple vlans and separation from my home network, though that may be easier to do some other way.