What is the best way to get experience with Windows Active Directory?

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What is the best way to get experience with Windows Active Directory?

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  • dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Load up some VMs and play around. You can setup multiple sites, domain hierarchies, configure group policies with clients, etc.
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    Yep...free virtualization software and evaluation copies of Windows Server will let you learn for free.
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  • Daniel333Daniel333 Member Posts: 2,077 ■■■■■■□□□□
    I would say snag a copy of Sun's Virtual Box, Windows 2008 and Windows 7. For those with honestly no experience, you are going to have a big hurdle of concepts work through.

    What's your background?

    Ideally what you need to go is get a book on 70-640 and work slowly through it. Simulaneously you probably want to look into the MCITP: Enterprise Support technician cert.
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  • ULWizULWiz Member Posts: 722
    VMWare is the answer. Load a server and a xp client and your on your way. AD is not a simple think to learn and either is running a AD infrastructure either. Take your time get a book or two. Stick with xp and 2003 i would not do 2008 server or windows 7. Companies are still running xp and 2003 servers.
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