[help] Improving my Technical Skills

[Hardware411]

Good morning yall.

Im trying to develop and improve my technical skills in Microsoft and hardware need some help on how to do this.

Books - Training Courses? On line guides? anything would help alot please post away

anything that can help would be great.

Thank you all for posting.

 

[n0cmonkey]

What do you have/know now?

 

[purplehippo]

pcstats.com has some nice tutorials and guides on all different subjects.

 

[Smilin]

The absolute #1 super duper bestest way to learn is virtual machines. VPC, VMWare, Virtual Server, whatever.

Find yourself the easiest and quickest book you can on say active directory. Something Cliff-Notes style if you know what I mean. Windows helpfiles & a good internet search engine might even be enough for you.

Then sit down and build a Virtual Machine with a domain controller, dns server etc. As you are tripping over yourself trying to get this done you're going to find your own weaknesses and come across specific things you need to know. With specifics in hand you will have a very easy time finding resources to help you. For instance: never setup a DNS server before? I bet 10 minutes on google and you'll be able to get through it.

Once you have fumbled your way through it on your own a few times you can then go back and look into more formal training which will teach you the important security and other best practices that are essential but difficult to learn without a base to start from.


Virtual Machines for the win!

 

[minofifa]

i've been reading through the tutuorials for C and C++ at www.cprogramming.com. They are pretty good, although may be a bit confusiing with zero programming experience. Knowing C is an asset as its so tied in with hardware.