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Systems Administration training courses
Standardize Systems Administration capability across your team with expert-led, on-demand training — every course below is current and team-ready.
AWS
AWS CloudOps Engineer
This AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate training course prepares you to manage and scale cloud environments like a modern operations professional. This course focuses on high-level automation and observability. You’ll learn the deployment of infrastructure via CDK templates, secure hybrid environments with IAM Roles Anywhere, and maintain visibility through advanced CloudWatch and EKS/ECS metric collection. By the end of this course, you’ll have the technical skills to manage complex cloud initiatives, and the knowledge required to pass the COA-C03 exam and earn your CloudOps certification (formerly known as the SysOps Associate Certification). Start training now with unlimited practice exams and expert guidance.
150 videos20 skills20hAzure
AZ-800
This Microsoft AZ-800 training teaches you to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure while also preparing you for Microsoft’s exam AZ-800. Earn your Microsoft Certified Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification by learning how to manage Windows Server across on-premises environments and Azure, including identity services, networking, storage, and virtualization in hybrid infrastructures. You'll get hands-on with modern Windows Server capabilities, learn how Windows Server environments connect to Azure, and how to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot infrastructure that spans both local data centers and the cloud. Get ready to pass exam AZ-800 on the first try with virtual labs and unlimited practice tests included in this course.
223 videos37 skills39hAzure
AZ-801
Get ready for the AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services exam with this Windows Server 2025 training course. Through guided lessons and real-world scenarios, you’ll gain hands-on practice with security, hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and Windows Defender tools. Learn clustering, storage, and disaster recovery while mastering the migration of servers and workloads. This course gives you the confidence to pass the AZ-801 exam and run secure, resilient Windows Server environments.
23 skills20hAzure
Microsoft AZ-104
This entry-level Microsoft Azure Administrator training prepares aspiring Azure administrators to pass the AZ-104 exam — the single exam required to earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate certification. This training builds hands-on skills for managing Azure resources using the Azure portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. You’ll learn how to implement and manage virtual networking, secure identities with Microsoft Entra ID, automate deployments using ARM templates and Bicep files, and configure Azure storage solutions. The course also covers monitoring with Azure Monitor and ensuring business continuity through Azure Backup and Site Recovery. Whether you're deploying virtual machines, configuring load balancers, or managing costs with Azure Policy, this AZ-104 course equips you to confidently manage core infrastructure across the Azure ecosystem.
137 videos17 skills17hAzure
AZ-140
This AZ-140 training prepares you to design, implement, and manage Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments and remote apps for any device. Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification validates your expertise in configuring host pools, session hosts, and FSLogix storage. Whether you are migrating on-premises VDI to the cloud, or optimizing existing virtual desktops, this course provides the hands-on training needed to earn Microsoft’s premier desktop virtualization certification and pass the AZ-140 exam.
142 videos18 skills16hAzure
Microsoft Entra ID
This Microsoft Entra ID training will help you build a secure, scalable identity infrastructure from the ground up. This course provides a comprehensive deep dive into Microsoft Entra ID (formerly named Azure Active Directory), giving you the practical expertise to manage identities, enforce Zero Trust security, and streamline access across hybrid environments. You'll move from foundational setup to deploying advanced governance and automated identity protection.
67 videos11 skills10hCompTIA
A+ Core 2
Prepare for the CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1202) V15 exam with expert-led training, unlimited practice exams, and virtual labs. Build real-world IT support skills across Windows 11, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, with expanded focus on OS management, cloud productivity tools, file systems (ReFS, XFS), UEFI/TPM, hybrid deployments, and command-line utilities like whoami and sfc. This course dives into Zero Trust security, passwordless authentication, MDM, DLP, EPP/EDR, and protection against email-based threats and fileless malware. You'll also cover software troubleshooting, ticketing systems, and operational best practices. Prepare to sit the 220-1202 exam with confidence and level up your IT career.
288 videos49 skills49hCompTIA
CompTIA AutoOps+
Manual infrastructure changes, ad hoc deployments, and inconsistent pipeline practices raise outage risk and slow delivery. **CompTIA AutoOps+ (AT0-001)** training gives IT teams a shared, repeatable approach to automation: scripting, version control, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and secure delivery. IT Directors can assign this intermediate course to systems, cloud, and network administrators moving into pipeline-driven operations. Learners practice Linux CLI, Python, PowerShell, and Git. They also work with containers, Terraform, and Ansible, build pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and compare rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments. Hands-on labs cover troubleshooting broken configurations and hardening an insecure Docker image build. Plan for about 28 hours of video per learner, plus lab time. Team Leads can phase the rollout by workflow area: scripting and Git first, then IaC and configuration management, then CI/CD and secure pipelines. Virtual labs provide two Ubuntu machines, so practice does not depend on local lab infrastructure. That keeps the whole team working from the same foundation as your organization standardizes on automated operations.
206 videos33 skills28hCompTIA
CompTIA Cloud+
Prepare for the CompTIA Cloud+ certification (CV0-004) with expert-led training in cloud security, IAM, cost optimization, and hybrid cloud operations. This associate-level course is designed for sysadmins and IT pros transitioning to cloud roles. Learn how to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure, support multi-cloud environments, and apply vendor-neutral best practices. Build the skills employers want and get ready to pass the Cloud+ certification exam.
198 videos21 skills22hCompTIA
CompTIA Server+
This entry-level CompTIA Server+ training covers SK0-005 exam objectives so you can earn the Server+ certification. By earning the CompTIA Server+ certification, you're proving that you're broadly competent with server installation, maintenance and management. For supervisors, this CompTIA training can be used for SK0-005 exam prep, onboarding new systems administrators, individual or team training plans, or as a CompTIA reference resource.
189 videos24 skills26hCybersecurity
Microsoft Security Administrator
This Security Administrator Associate (MS-500) training covers how to manage and implement user, threat, and information protections in Microsoft 365. This training helps you prepare to become a security administrator associate for Microsoft 365, and for future roles in security or systems administration.
81 videos15 skills13hCybersecurity
SC-300
This Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) training prepares you to become a Microsoft identity and access admin. Expert-led training will teach you to implement and manage secure identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and hybrid identities. You’ll set up and manage users, groups, devices, and custom roles. You’ll learn to configure passwordless and multifactor sign-in, apply conditional access policies, and use tools like PIM to support a zero-trust strategy. You’ll also manage app access with registrations, service principals, and entitlement controls. Bring on-prem and cloud together using Azure AD Connect and Active Directory Federation Services, and monitor and protect identities using Defender for Cloud Apps, Sentinel, Identity Protection and Identity Secure Score. With practice exams and real‑world scenarios, this course maps to the SC‑300 exam blueprint, giving you the skills and confidence to get certified and secure access to your organization’s cloud resources.
135 videos18 skills18hGoogle Workspace
Google Workspace Administrator
This Google Workspace Administrator certification training is an associate-level course for IT support specialists and junior sysadmins who want to develop practical, real-world Google administration skills. With a focus on the Google Admin console and core Workspace services, you'll dive deep into user management, service configuration, and security controls across the Workspace environment. You'll explore how to manage identities, configure Gmail and Drive, enforce data and access policies, and optimize collaboration at scale. Through clear, engaging explanations and guided demonstrations, this Google Workspace Administrator certification training will give you the expertise needed to administer Google Workspace effectively and prepare for the Google Workspace Administrator exam.
178 videos26 skills23hKubernetes
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
This Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) training takes systems administrators from cluster setup through scaling, security, and troubleshooting. Taught with real-world examples, it covers installing and configuring Kubernetes clusters for high availability, deploying and scaling workloads with ReplicaSets, Deployments, and autoscalers, securing clusters with RBAC, Pod Security, and access control, managing storage and networking with EBS, ClusterIP, Ingress, and network policies, and monitoring and debugging workloads with probes, the metrics server, and debugging tools, including on AWS EKS. For an IT Director whose platform team runs containerized applications, the CKA is the recognized way to confirm that administrators can keep the application lifecycle reliable and efficient. Individual administrators earn the same Linux Foundation certification.
88 videos18 skills17hLinux
Linux+
This CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) training covers how to manage, administer and troubleshoot the operations of a Linux system, server or network. Use this course to prepare for the XK0-005 exam, which is needed to earn the Linux+ certification that validates your skills managing and administering Linux systems and networks.
243 videos36 skills32hLinux
Everything Linux
This intermediate Linux training teaches practical skills through hands-on examples, covering everything from basic scripting to advanced system management. You'll learn BASH scripting, SSH authentication, filesystem management, RAID, LVM, and configuring services like Apache. Perfect for system administrators looking to deepen their Linux expertise or onboard new admins.
131 videos14 skills23hLinux
010-160
This LPI Linux Essentials training covers the basic commands and functions of the Linux operating system and prepares your team for the LPI Linux Essentials (010-160) certification. It covers recognizing open source applications and their closed source equivalents, working on the command line to navigate files, handling hardware, programs, and components of the operating system, creating and restoring compressed backups and archives, configuring users, groups, and file permissions, and creating and running simple scripts. For an IT Director onboarding help desk staff or junior administrators onto Linux systems, Linux Essentials is the fastest way to verify a working baseline before assigning production access. New and aspiring IT professionals earn the same vendor-neutral LPI certificate as a first Linux credential.
121 videos17 skills17hLinux
LPIC-1
This Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 (101-500 & 102-500) LPI Certification training covers how to use and navigate a Linux workstation as well as perform basic administration tasks in support of a Linux network. This Linux Foundation LPIC-1 training covers the objectives in the 101-500 and 102-500 exams, which are the two exams required to earn the LPIC-1 certification. For managers with Linux Foundation products, this training can be used for 101-500 and 102-500 exam prep, or as a Linux Foundation reference resource.
171 videos33 skills29hLinux
LPIC-2
This LPIC-2 Training training covers how to take control of small- to medium-sized mixed networks that depend on Linux technologies and manage every aspect of their administration. The LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute certification is perfect for a sysadmin who wants to prove their administration, maintenance, management, storage, networking, security, and even automation skills with a Linux network. This Linux Foundation training can be used for 201-450 and 202-450 exam prep, or as a Linux Foundation reference resource.
112 videos25 skills22hLinux
RHCE
This Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) EX294 training helps you get RHCE-certified fast with expert-led, hands-on instruction. You’ll learn to automate key Red Hat Enterprise Linux tasks using Ansible, working with playbooks, roles, modules, content collections, and more. Designed for RHCSA-certified or experienced sysadmins, this course covers everything the RHCE exam tests for: system deployment, storage, user management, security, and Ansible-based automation. Gain the practical skills you need to pass the RHCE exam and level up your Linux automation game.
179 videos22 skills19hLinux
RHCSA
This Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) RHCSA training covers how to monitor and manage the Linux operating system and administer enterprise networks and devices that run it. The EX200 certifying exam is a thorough assessment of your ability to manage enterprise storage, file systems, basic networking, users and groups, security, and containers – the basic essentials for a Linux administrator.
198 videos23 skills20hMicrosoft
MS-203
This Messaging Administrator Associate training covers how to effectively manage modern messaging and mail infrastructure. This entry-level Microsoft training covers the objectives in the MS-203 exam, which is the one exam required to earn the Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate certification. Learn how to manage multiple modes of communication, coordinate and plan messaging infrastructure and topology, and implement the latest hybrid configurations for messaging.
32 videos5 skills4hMicrosoft
Microsoft GitHub Administration (GH-100)
As GitHub becomes a shared platform for development, DevOps, and security teams, inconsistent identity controls, repository access, Actions usage, and security settings create audit risk and slow delivery. This GH-100 training gives IT teams a structured way to administer GitHub at the enterprise level so access, governance, and automation follow organizational policy. Built for GitHub administrators, platform engineers, and DevOps Team Leads, the course covers enterprise deployments and licensing, the authentication and authorization model, SAML SSO, 2FA, SCIM provisioning, roles and access audits, policies and rulesets, audit logging, secret scanning and push protection, CodeQL, Dependabot, tokens, GitHub Apps, Actions governance, and runner administration. Your team will be able to review access and audit data, standardize repository practices, and configure the security features that surface exposed secrets, vulnerable dependencies, and code issues. With 18 skills and about 14 hours of instruction, the course fits best as a series of focused learning blocks aligned with your existing identity provider, SSO, and CI/CD policy decisions. Training Managers can assign it through Playlists and track progress with Team Reporting, while Practice Exams support GH-100 readiness across the team.
108 videos18 skills14hMicrosoft
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016
This Exchange training course prepares learners to setup mailbox databases on Exchange Server 2016. Learn how to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot mailbox databases on Exchange Server 2016.
65 videos6 skills5hMicrosoft 365
MS-102
This MS-102 training prepares you to step into the role of a Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert, one of the most respected credentials for senior Microsoft cloud administrators. You’ll sharpen the skills necessary to run and secure modern Microsoft 365 environments with rigorous exam prep, gaining experience with Microsoft Defender XDR and Purview, as well as the automation and identity management capabilities of PowerShell and Microsoft Entra ID. Along the way, you’ll learn how experienced administrators deploy and manage Microsoft 365 tenants, and protect enterprise workloads in cloud and hybrid environments. By the end of this MS-102 training, you’ll be equipped with practical knowledge that you can immediately use as a professional Microsoft 365 administrator.
95 videos17 skills16hMicrosoft 365
Microsoft AB-900
This Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals (AB-900) training prepares you to earn a valuable Microsoft AI certification. Keep your Microsoft 365 admin skills relevant and valuable in the age of AI. Learn how to enable your organization with Copilot, and roll out AI agents without compromising security, identity, or data protections. Microsoft expert James Conrad guides you through M365 governance, AI readiness, and modern IT management, so you can lead AI adoption with confidence and pass the AB-900 exam.
108 videos21 skills18hMicrosoft Teams
MS-721
This MS-721 training course will teach you how to set up, manage, and optimize your Microsoft 365 communications environment. You'll learn how to configure, deploy, and administer Teams, Teams Phone, and key Teams Premium capabilities. This course will help you move from basic setup into advanced configuration options such as intelligent recap, live translation, and branded meeting experiences. With hands-on demos and walkthroughs, you’ll be designing secure, high-performance solutions that keep teams connected, all while you prepare for the MS-721 certification exam.
354 videos47 skills42hMicrosoft Teams
MS-700
This MS-700 training helps you become a Microsoft 365 Certified Teams Administrator Associate. With practical, expert-led Microsoft Teams training, you can build the skills to plan, configure, and manage Teams environments at scale. You’ll learn network design using Network Planner, implement Microsoft-grade security, compliance, and governance. You'll also learn to manage teams, channels, chats, apps, meetings, calling, and external collaboration. Get comfortable with monitoring performance, automating with PowerShell, generating reports, and troubleshooting issues — all the Teams admin skills you need to pass the MS-700 exam. Don't wing your IT career. Study real-world Microsoft Admin scenarios designed by seasoned IT pros.
161 videos24 skills21hMicrosoft Windows 10
Microsoft MD-102
This Microsoft MD-102 training is a perfect starting point for becoming a professional Endpoint Administrator. In this course, you’ll master the full device lifecycle using Microsoft Intune and Entra ID. You'll learn to automate deployments with Windows Autopilot, manage app catalogs, and secure devices with Windows Defender. You'll also explore configuring compliance policies and running remote actions with KQL. Along the way, you’ll gain the hands-on skills needed to build a secure workplace strategy, and earn your Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate certification.
166 videos26 skills26hMicrosoft Windows Server
Microsoft Server 2019
In this entry-level Microsoft skills training, you'll learn to install, configure, and maintain Windows Server 2019. After finishing this Windows Server 2019 training, you'll know how to upgrade to Windows Server 2019, and then configure and administer your systems infrastructure. This training has a number of virtual labs pre-loaded with Server 2019.
73 videos11 skills13hMicrosoft Windows Server
MCSA: Windows Server 2016 (70-740) Online Training
This intermediate MCSA: Windows Server 2016 (70-740) training will guide you through essential skills for administering Windows Server 2016. Learn to install and configure Server 2016, manage Hyper-V and containers, implement high availability solutions, and configure Active Directory and DNS. This course is perfect for systems administrators looking to enhance their expertise and advance into higher-level IT roles.
63 videos8 skills18hMicrosoft Windows Server
PowerShell
In this intermediate PowerShell course, you’ll go beyond the basics to build reliable scripts and automation tools. You’ll start by structuring your work with module manifests and argument completers, then organise functions and publish custom modules. You’ll practice navigating the file system with cmdlets and pipeline chain operators, parse text with regular expressions, and work with data from CSV and SQL. The course shows how to build cross‑platform scripts in Visual Studio Code, integrate with REST APIs, AWS Lambda, Azure services and other cloud tools, and automate administration tasks like Active Directory user and group management. Along the way you’ll explore object properties, error handling, debugging, unit testing with Pester, and writing user‑friendly CLI and GUI tools. By the end, you’ll be able to design, test and deploy PowerShell solutions that manage virtual machines, remoting sessions and infrastructure – making this training the easiest way to learn PowerShell.
216 videos26 skills54hServiceNow
ServiceNow
This beginner-friendly ServiceNow course is built for aspiring system administrators, IT support pros, and anyone new to enterprise ITSM. Learn how to navigate the ServiceNow platform, manage tasks and users, and customize dashboards that streamline workflows. You’ll build hands-on skills with lists, forms, visualizations, and AI-driven workspaces — everything you need to support modern service management at scale.
71 videos13 skills10hServiceNow
ServiceNow CIS Data Foundations (CMDB & CSDM)
When ServiceNow CMDB data is incomplete, duplicated, or loosely governed, incident investigations stall and change risk climbs. This course gives IT Directors and Training Managers a consistent way to build CMDB ownership across the team, from how configuration items and relationships are stored to how discovery data enters the platform and stays trustworthy. Built for ServiceNow administrators, platform specialists, CMDB owners, and IT operations leads, the 21-skill curriculum covers identification and reconciliation rules, data source and relationship rules, CMDB health (completeness, compliance, correctness, and relationship health), data policies, attestation and scheduled policy runs, de-duplication, Query Builder, and dynamic CI groups. Your team learns to define what a healthy CMDB means for your organization and to review policy impact before publishing so poorly scoped filters do not change or delete the wrong records. At about 16.3 hours, or roughly two workdays per learner, the course works well as a staged playlist: admins and CMDB owners first, then operations leads who rely on CI relationships for service impact. CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting let Training Managers assign the path consistently and track progress as the team prepares for ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist – Data Foundations responsibilities.
121 videos21 skills16hServiceNow
ServiceNow Certified Admin
Build confidence in the ServiceNow platform and certify your IT service management (ITSM) skills. This ServiceNow Certified Administrator (CSA) admin training will help you get comfortable with the ServiceNow modern UI (Next Experience Unified Navigation interface) through engaging, bite-sized videos. As you start using the platform like a real administrator, you’ll master key features such as Form Builder, ACLs, Service Catalog, Flow Designer, workflows, and notifications. You’ll also dive into instance setup, data visualization, email integration, access control, and automated onboarding. Along the way, you’ll reinforce concepts with step-by-step workflow tutorials you can actually implement in your own organization. By the end of this ServiceNow course, you’ll be ready to manage tables, roles, triggers, analytics and deliver efficient, secure IT services.
244 videos47 skills37hServiceNow
ServiceNow Admin
Build confidence and job-ready ITSM skills with ServiceNow admin training. Get comfortable with the latest ServiceNow interface in engaging, bite-sized videos, and start using ServiceNow as an administrator. You’ll master key platform features like Form Builder, ACLs, Service Catalog, Flow Designer, workflows, and notifications. Dive into instance setup, data visualization, email integration, access control, and automated onboarding. Reinforce concepts with step-by-step ServiceNow automated workflow tutorials that you can actually implement in your organization. After taking this ServiceNow course, you’ll be ready to manage tables, roles, triggers, and analytics, boosting your ability to drive efficient, secure IT service delivery.
16 skills13hSystems Administration
Active Directory for Windows Server 2025
Many organizations still depend on Active Directory to control who can sign in, what devices can do, and how policy reaches every workstation and server. That is especially true where on-premises systems, air-gapped networks, or hybrid environments make cloud-only management unrealistic. When AD knowledge lives with one or two senior admins, configuration drift and recovery gaps follow. This 7.3-hour, beginner-level course gives Help Desk staff, junior administrators, and Team Leads a shared model for administering AD on Windows Server 2025. Across eight skills, your team learns to manage objects in Active Directory Administrative Center, design OUs that support Group Policy, apply GPOs to set or restrict user and computer behavior, and build working knowledge of sites, trusts, forests, backup, recovery, and modern AD security. For IT Directors and Training Managers, it works well as the next step after core Windows Server training. Pair it with related courses in a Playlist, add Virtual Labs for hands-on practice where available, and use Team Reporting to track progress as newer admins take on AD responsibilities.
45 videos8 skills7hSystems Administration
PowerShell Automation
This advanced Microsoft Advanced PowerShell Automation prepares systems administrators to automate complex administrative tasks using Windows PowerShell. There's a whole level of automation above scripting includes commands, cmdlets and functions. Once you're done with this Advanced PowerShell Automation training, you'll know how to automate repetitive and boring administrative tasks by building your own automation tools in PowerShell.
118 videos16 skills18hSystems Administration
Hyper-V
This intermediate Hyper-V Tutorial training prepares systems administrators to use Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization tool to establish private cloud environments and optimize hardware use. Learn to create disaster recovery backups, improve OS performance, and enable remote connectivity with Hyper-V. This Windows Microsoft Server training is deal for onboarding new administrators, or as a Microsoft reference resource.
21 videos5 skills5hSystems Administration
Microsoft Cloud for Windows Server Admins
Windows Server teams are often asked to support Azure, Entra ID, and Intune before identity models, admin roles, and management boundaries are clearly defined. This course gives IT Directors a consistent way to bridge on-prem Windows Server and Active Directory skills to Microsoft cloud administration, so hybrid projects start from shared understanding rather than ad hoc exposure. Built for systems administrators and Team Leads, the course covers local vs. cloud decisions, core Azure services, Global Admin and user management, AD vs. Entra ID, connecting AD to Entra ID, device identity, Intune, Azure Arc, securing hybrid access with modern authentication and Conditional Access, and changing the source of authority to Entra ID. Instructor demonstrations, such as enrolling hybrid-joined devices in Intune through Group Policy, show how these pieces work in practice. Assign it before major identity, device, or Azure Arc initiatives so the team shares the same vocabulary and reduces identity-management risk. With 10 focused skills, it fits onboarding, a cloud-readiness push, or a short upskilling sprint, and CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting let Training Managers track completion across the rollout.
72 videos10 skills9hSystems Administration
System Center Configuration Manager
This System Center Configuration Manager and Cloud Services (70-703) training course covers how to administer devices and applications across medium, large, and enterprise organizations using SCCM. Systems administrators who complete this Microsoft training will be well-positioned to step into specialized device management roles — or just know how to wrangle all the devices on your network.
81 videos8 skills15hSystems Administration
Networking with Windows Server 2025
Network gaps on a Windows Server team turn into avoidable escalations: misread subnet masks, DHCP scopes that hand out the wrong settings, DNS problems blamed on the server, and performance complaints nobody can quantify. This course gives help desk staff, junior admins, and infrastructure team members a shared networking foundation before they take on higher-risk Server 2025 work. Across nine skills and 8.4 hours, learners start with IPv4, IPv6, public and private addressing, and classful subnet masks. They then use the OSI and TCP/IP models to isolate problems, and work through common ports and protocols, DHCP and advanced DHCP settings, DNS and IPAM, NPS and VPN, and network load balancing. The course also covers cluster networking concepts and network monitoring with baselines, performance counters, and captures. For IT Directors and Training Managers, the course fits role-based onboarding into systems administration. Use CBT Nuggets Playlists to sequence it alongside related Windows Server training, and use Team Reporting to track completion across the team. Team Leads should plan follow-up practice on local addressing standards, server roles, and internal troubleshooting procedures so the concepts map to your environment.
55 videos9 skills8hSystems Administration
Windows Server Administration
Windows Server still underpins identity, file access, virtualization, patching, and backup in most enterprise environments. When fundamentals vary from admin to admin, the result is inconsistent access control, loosely handled privileged accounts, storage misconfiguration, and slower incident response. This 20-skill, 18.1-hour course gives help desk technicians, junior administrators, and experienced IT practitioners a shared Windows Server baseline. Team members install Windows Server and complete post-installation setup. They manage users and groups with least privilege in mind, administer Active Directory and Group Policy, and plan storage for office, remote, and hybrid work, including SMB over QUIC. The course also covers Hyper-V, Windows Server 2025 updates, backup and restore, and performance monitoring with baselines and events. The course is broad rather than deep-specialist, so IT Directors and Team Leads can assign skills to match current duties. Identity admins can focus on Active Directory and Group Policy. Infrastructure admins can focus on storage, Hyper-V, updates, backup, and monitoring. CBT Nuggets Virtual Labs support hands-on practice, and Team Reporting gives Training Managers visibility into progress across assigned staff. The format suits short learning blocks that fit around operational work.
101 videos20 skills18hVMware
(VCP-DCV 2024)
This VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2024 (VCP-DCV 2024) vSphere 8 training covers how to manage, deploy, & troubleshoot vSphere 8 environments for virtual machines. VMware makes some of the world's most popular virtualization technology, and if you want a career maintaining and operating it, or architecting networks that rely on it, you should plan on earning one of their certifications.
438 videos56 skills60hVMware
VMware VCP-VVF Administrator (2V0-16.25)
Virtualization platforms carry an organization's most critical workloads, so inconsistent vSphere administration shows up as permission sprawl, slow provisioning, and avoidable outages. This course gives IT Directors a structured way to standardize how their team deploys and operates VMware vSphere Foundation while preparing staff for the VCP-VVF Administrator (2V0-16.25) exam. Built for systems, virtualization, and data center teams, the 16.4-hour intermediate curriculum covers deploying ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, building datacenters and clusters, configuring host and VM networking, and connecting NFS, VMFS over iSCSI, and vSAN storage. Your team also works through vMotion, DRS, and HA; certificates, licensing, and lifecycle management; VM creation, cloning, templates, and encryption; least-privilege RBAC with external authentication; and VCF Operations, Supervisor, and orchestration workflows. Training Managers can assign the course in phases by skill area, such as platform buildout, storage and networking, availability, identity and security, and operations, to limit disruption while procedures get standardized. Playlists sequence the rollout, Practice Exams support certification readiness, Virtual Labs give a safe place to practice, and Team Reporting shows leaders completion and readiness across the team.
146 videos18 skills16hVMware
VMware VCP-VVF Support (2V0-18.25)
Virtualization incidents rarely stay in one layer. A failed upgrade, an unreachable datastore, or a licensing error can span compute, storage, networking, and operations tooling, and teams that troubleshoot in silos take longer to restore service. This intermediate course gives IT Directors a shared VVF 9 support baseline across the team. Built for virtualization administrators and support engineers who already work with ESX, vCenter, and vSAN, the course walks through V8-to-VVF 9 upgrades, VCF Installer behavior, NFS, iSCSI, and vSAN deployment, cluster management, licensing, compute, and networking troubleshooting. Practitioners learn to validate storage paths early with tools like `vmkping`, activate VCF Ops logging (not deployed by default in VVF), and use the VCF Ops Orchestrator to schedule workflows and inspect failed tasks. At about 9.9 hours per learner, it fits a focused enablement sprint ahead of a platform upgrade or a **2V0-18.25** certification push. Training Managers can use Team Reporting and Playlists to assign the troubleshooting sequence and track completion.
92 videos10 skills10h