Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012 (Microsoft Press Training Guide)

These tips from Orin Thomas, author of the "Training Guide: Administering Windows Server 2012" help you improve more quickly.

1. Learn how to do it in PowerShell.

2. Learn how to manage more than one server using a single console.

3. Use the new version of Server Core in production environments where possible.

4. Not only should you perform tasks in the real world, you should also be performing tasks in test labs to practice before you do it in the real world.

5. “Do or do not. There is no try.”