Retraining from an enikey worker to a system administrator. Where to begin?

Question

System administration

To begin with, I am preparing to submit a certificate for Win7, since the office pays for it, but I don’t know what to do next.
I also have a subscription to the Microsoft affiliate program, where they say a lot of materials on the subject, but whether I'm stupid, or my hands are crooked, I actually didn't find anything useful.
In general, I would be grateful for any links to the literature you need, webcasts, and anything else that will help you get in the right mood.
Thank you.

Answer 1

MCSE certificate - Must call someone experienced.

Answer 2

Recently there was a series of articles on Habré. one two three

Answer 3

From "read" - you can even Wikipedia, there is a lot of information everywhere. But at a minimum, I would study in this order (I'm not talking about OS):
1. Fundamentals of networks (TCP / IP stack and routing).
2. Active Directory and GPOs.
For sure, you will also need WSUS, Exchange Server, file storage, something on IIS, something through Forefront.
Further, it already depends on the specialization of the work: somewhere 1C, somewhere Project, somewhere else.
But to consolidate the theory, I highly recommend digging all this in virtual machines (using Hyper-V, VMWare or VirtualBox). Create three or four virtual machines with different roles, create a virtual network for them, set up a network connection in each and bring them into a domain. Check the routing between the virtual network and the "external".
This, of course, if the infrastructure is on Microsoft. By the way, a good article flew by on Habré: " Building an infrastructure based on MS products ".
From links to help, the same technet , msdn , google.

Answer 4

Learn Unixes, save up money for a cisco router and build a home LAN on it from a couple of computers.

Answer 5

Try to find and solve some non-trivial problem.

Answer 6

>> I also have a subscription to the Microsoft affiliate program, where they say a lot of materials on the subject, but either I'm stupid, or my hands are crooked - I actually didn't find anything useful.
>>I don't know what to do next
1. Find these materials. A person who cannot find information, no matter how hidden it is, will not be able to work as a system administrator. Presser of the Next button and writer of HELP! xxx doesn't work! - yes, sis. admin - no.
2.techdays.ru _
3. Since you work in an IT Outsourcer, to begin with, simulate a small business network (AD, file server, computer and user settings through GPO, software distribution through GPO, WSUS, an RDS server for an application (for example, the same 1C), an administration package ( for example, Kaspersky AdminKit), deploy SQL for WSUS and 1C, publish 1C 8.2 on IIS). Keep TK on hand at 70-640, 70-642, 70-643.
4. To understand whether you liked it - to decide finally.

Answer 7

Do you really think that MCSE \ MCITP is not worth anything?
I'm just finishing my MCSE curriculum and will start doing small soft exams soon. Time spent in vain or will it still be of any use?
What qualification programs are more in demand in the market?

Answer 8

The main thing is Moscow! Judging by the fact that you are not able to solve even such a trivial task as learning something quite tangible, administering something is clearly not suitable for you at this age / experience period. In your case, I think it's worth continuing to enike :)