Career change into Server

Good Morning,
Been working as a Network Engineer for the past 6 years to a decent CCNP Level, However I have been bored/stale and would like to make the exciting transition into Windows Server Management.

Question is really for studying purposes, Would you recommend that I go down the Server 2012 or 2016 MCSA route?

Any thoughts or questions are greatly appreciated.

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

scaredoftests

I would think the latest and the greatest...

TheFORCE

You will be bored even more with Windows administrative tasks.

malachi1612

I asked the same question last year and everyone said Server 2012. I didn't listen and went for Server 2016, glad I did. You should do the same.

Cisco Inferno

TheFORCE wrote: »

You will be bored even more with Windows administrative tasks.

I second this.

Why not go Datacenter?

MitM

I say learn both, but for certification just go for 2016

I spent 4+ years as server admin before switching to networking. Not sure what bores you about networking, but in my situation, I definitely had more work to do when I was doing server/virtualization things. A lot of it was repetitive/boring too