Set up a server machine from scratch, if you have never encountered this in practice?

Question

System administration

Hello! I work part-time in one office as a web developer, so to speak for experience (I study in general). So, due to the lack of competent people (in the field of IT), I was given the task - a computer was bought for a server, the task was to enable, configure, organize a network of 50 computers (laptops, most via wifi), organize file storage on a server, and in the future , deploy a web server for a corporate site. Tell me where to start or what to read

Answer 1

Take the OS that you know or a familiar guru knows, and set it up.
For the selected OS, study the documentation for standard tools, then articles on setting up these and other tools.
PS If the first pancake is a lump - do not worry, this is not a task for a web developer without system administration experience, but for a system administrator. The devil is in the details.

Answer 2

It's not all that simple.
50 users from laptops on WiFi climb in the Internet - it's normal. Will start to open files in a file-washing machine - problems will begin. They will start to fall off the network, they will not be able to save open files. The speed will drop.
File storage for 50 users is not just a shared folder with files, but also access rights. To whom and where you can write-correct, and to whom - only read. And it is right, AD. Need DC. And there should be 2, not just one.
Also, archiving. "Yesterday there was a folder with important files, but today it's not there. Where are the files? Who rubbed them???"
And if stupidly the disk dies? And everything that was acquired by backbreaking work went according to p...
And who will be to blame? That's right, a web developer.

Answer 3

All the same, it is necessary to build on the iron.
1. what iron?
2. What OS will be installed?
3. For what purposes?
if a simple desktop computer will be in the role of a server, then 12 computers will not pull with folders and public access to the Internet. I can advise that your office would buy a normal server. so good luck to you.