Podskazhite suitable materials on windows other than official sites / forums.?

Question

Windows

Actually, the whole problem is that I have not used it before from the word "absolutely". There are general ideas, but for the most part I don’t even understand what’s what.
The main nightmare is caused by:
- ​​.NET and everything connected with it, it's just not clear. It would seem that the same YAP like hundreds of others, but why don't I get a taste?
- Powerschel.
- Windows server.
- MMC console and everything connected with it. As I understand it, for most things, instead of configs, here is a gui.
- Active directory. They say it's good stuff. I want to try.

Answer 1

See this book for windows server. There are two volumes.
Minasi M et al. Windows Server 2012 R2. Complete guide.

Answer 2

What didn't you like about MSDN?