Looking for some good basic guides

[Guest]

So I finally found the guts to start educating myself on the subject of win server stuff. It's much tougher than I thought, especially since I do not have any advanced networking knowledge.

I could really use a few link to some good guides about basics of configuring stuff such as DNS and DHCP, with settings explained at least in brief. Of course I googled something already, but most of the results I got were not very good. I can keep clicking next and type in some numbers the person mentions - but that doesn't get me anywhere in the end, does is.

My experiences so far are mostly doing things in AD and working with GP.

Any help is welcome!

[submix8c]

My impression was "Same stuff, different place". Haven't gotten there yet. Experience w/WinVista+7 indicates that - just a "bear" to find.

[Tripredacus]

Technet is probably a place to go, such as DHCP:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb643151.aspx

And maybe the MS blogs could have some tutorials. Maybe if you are able to, you could set up a test network (a PC or two and a switch) to try these things out. That's how I started at it.