you NEED to learn Windows RIGHT NOW!! 

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High School drop out -> GED -> Associates Degree in Networking -> Help Desk -> Sys Admin -> Sr Sys Admin -> Manager of IT -> Director of IT. Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done, especially yourself! Changing my career to IT is hands down the best thing I have done in my life.

It's true. Even if you don't like Windows, so many businesses and users rely on it. So we gotta learn how to support it as an IT professional.

Just a reminder that in Azure, if you don't want to be charged for compute for a VM, you need to not just shutdown Windows. You also need to deallocate the VM. If the VM's status is just "stopped" then you need to click the stop button again in the portal and it will be deallocated. Otherwise compute charges still apply. Storage charges are another issue entirely, and will continue to rack up even with the VM deallocated, as was mentioned in a comment below. This can be a very small charge of course, but if you don't have a free monthly allocation of funds, you can't just leave stuff sitting there once your initial funds run out.

A walk down memory lane. I was a customer support engineer at Microsoft (direct employee before they brought in contractors and then "outsourced" support to separate companies). Back then, your first month was training on 1) computer architecture, 2) Windows architecture, 3) customer blind interaction, and other bits and pieces. (An example of "blind" interaction was walking another CSE through solving a problem while facing away from them AND as they intentionally made every possible mistake. This really was like interacting with Windows users on the phone.) My initial support area was Windows 3.1. Then I moved to the "hardware queue", supporting hardware interfacing issues under all versions of MS products, including from an old Z80 interface in an Apple II sold by Microsoft in the Computer Stone Age running the CP/M operating system (I was the only one there that was old enough to have used CP/M, which was a popular OS before there was a Microsoft) to Windows 3.1, WinNT3.5, WIN 2000, Win 95 (code named Chicago prior to release... which really sucked), and on into the more "recent" flavors of Windoze. Well, until 1996, when I quit. I was always a hardware type, and MS changed internally, becoming less a comfortable environment, so I went back to electronics design. Windows is certainly ubiquitous in industry and academia, so if you learn to support it, you will probably have pretty good job security. At one point my wife took a CCNA (Certified Cisco Network Associate) which was TOUGH just due to all the details one was expected to know. Also good job security if you want to be a network administrator.

Really digging GlassesChuck!! 🔥🔥

Thanks Network Chuck! After 18 months on a help desk I secured a Cloud Engineer role today! You and your brothers stories really helped me stay focused. Keep on rocking it.

Microsoft need more competitors

Who thought he was going to build windows from scratch in this video 😂❤

ahh..the good old days... I still remember using Windows 3.11 and being amazed that you could have 2 applications open AT THE SAME time and having them "windowed" on top of each other. It was mind blowing. ;-)

I work as a helpdesk technician right now. I started my job 7-8 months ago, which technically it's my very first job. I know I've got a long road ahead to be a sysadmin, particularly microsoft sysadmin. This video is well informative, and I really thank you for this. Telling What steps should I take in order to get the corresponding certifications to be a microsoft sys admin really cleared that confusion in my head, now I got a vivid perspective towards this matter👍

Chuck, I have no words to describe how amazing you are. This content is just pure gold! Thank you so much for sharing all of you expirience with us i really appreciate that

Hi Chuck, if you can and have the time, I would greatly appreciate it if you made a tutorial on how to make an SSL certificate for one's website. I can't find any good explanations on how to do it. You know, you are really good at explaining and make it exciting at the same time.😁

Switched to Linux for all personal stuff about a year ago. Love it. Sadly all my clients on Windows, can't wait until I convince some to switch to Pop OS Linux :)

Thank you Chuck ! Excellent video like always. You are incredible my friend.

Your up there with the greatest tech youtubers chuck we appreciate you!

I totally understand why it's important to learn Azure and other cloud resources, and I'm totally on board for it, BUT, for my personal machines, I don't like putting my machines in the cloud. I don't like the idea of having the possibility of someone else being able to lock me out of my digital assets, if that makes since.

Just a small correction, every windows *Pro* edition has local group policies. Home editions don't have it.

Finally a new video! I was waiting for so long!

I love this topic of yours! Investing on my first Windows lab now.

As a manager that hires engineers and service desk staff for a modern azure / windows based consultancy, this is top notch advice, I can't reinforce enough how important the CompTIA stuff is.. learn the basics before doing vendor specific stuff, hiring managers love CompTIA

Always a good day when Network Chuck post

You are awesome! Thanks for your high quality top notch videos! Always enjoy watching! Thank you and your team for these valuable resources! 😁❤👍

Thank you for making videos consistently again!

I have been (and still am) in Windows Enterprise IT for over 28 years with two MCSE's and after the advent of Windows 10, malware attacks where it was not a form of social engineering were almost non-existent. After Windows Defender, there really has not been an issue, providing you have your environment secure and up to date.

I've been into Windows since the 3.1 days when I got my first computer. I managed to learn Windows enough to have worked in IT for 20 years. I still use Windows at home on the 3 desktop computers I built. I will always use Windows. Having said that during the pandemic shutdown I went to RU-vid University and learned enough about Linux where I now have it as a daily driver on one of my computers. I am currently using NixOS but I also love Arch and Arch-based distros. This channel is fantastic for learning about all things to do with computers. Keep up the great work!

I setup a domain in my house and used GPO's to setup controls for my son growing up.... It was awesome, setting up times, permissions to do things, reg keys to set custom properties, and so much much more... when grounded, disabled his account and he couldnt log into ANY computer in our house... and using Microsoft LAPS with it to ensure all my windows servers and endpoints have their local admin account randomized and secured in AD.

That vpn plug is one of the smoothest things ive seen. Nice job man you’re extremely creative.

Landed my first help desk position...thanks NetworkC..🎉

I am only 17, but I started learning Win server when I was 12, learning the basics of AD & GP has been incredible, and will be a good skill to have once I hit the workforce once I finish high school.

Here's how I view things. As a developer, we are mostly hired to provide solutions to existing problems. When 75% of the population is using windows, you just can't dev an app for exemple, without taking in consideration these 75%. All things that are meant to be highly public, should be tested on windows, and then on other OS. (And don't get me wrong, I'm a linux lover !) I made this mistake, it has cost me a lot. Don't do the same, test everywhere you can, and everywhere relevant !

Love this video, I am currently going to enter my final year to earn a IT degree at college, whilst prepping for the AZ-900 and AZ-104. Due Certiport shennigans I can take the AZ-900 upcoming September, really stoked to start my (cloud) journey into IT!

Brings back memories, did my MCSE, MCSE+I, MCT on NT4. So wish i had continued, but moved into web dev.

I'm DCAing in REL23AM as well. ETH heavier DCA and ALGO. I'm taking your advice and starting Google tomorrow with a 50 dollar purchase and continuing Microsoft and Apple. VTI and VOO on another app and longterm portfolio. Here we go family!

Or before Windows AD (1999) you had Novell NDS (1993) now called eDirectory and it still exists.

Another great video. Thank you.

I love it you make it so fun with all that energy that you have.🤩

Chuck, I have a big question, but first I want to say this.... I am a brand new beginner to all things IT. I am trying to learn Python first and it occurred to me that I need an environment to apply the things I read to something physical that I can try. So because you, Networkchuck, has become my IT guru via RU-vid, I downloaded VS Code. It is a whole new beast. Well having done that I am seeing some confusing things that require clarity. Any time I get an error or "problem" as it is referred to in vs code, I struggle to understand not only the specific problem but also what the fix would be and where to find that information. So I've concluded that I may be missing some extensions or something of the sort and every video I have found seems to focus on older versions of the program and Python. Please, please please help a newbie like me( because I'm the only one out here) and break down what I need to do to have all the tools I need to learn something I want to learn so that I can become an awesome coffee drinking IT master such as yourself. Please help. With the deepest gratitude and appreciation, thank you Michael ( aka: redthorn)

Microsoft lost the server war to Linux when kubernetes became the standard. However Microsoft Active Directory is still king and of course like Chuck said so are Windows clients. Learning active directory and gpos is a good idea, but move on after that.

I love how energetic and exciting your videos start :)

Quick clarification, to edit local group policy, you need Windows Pro or better. Windows Home does not have Local Group policy (without doing some tinkering) nor can it be joined to a domain.

Kinda scary whenever 1 company has 75% of control of the market

00:43 I don't need to learn how to break it; it'll do that well enough on its own ;)

Glad to see him still doing his thing!

Good overview of what to learn about Windows in a broad sense.

If one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects. not just the dogmatic, narrow view of Linux. If you are to become a complete and wise Technician, you must embrace… a larger view of OS

Great video Chuck - I hope it inspires people to think beyond the utterly boring linux/windows discussion. In the end windows is a tool like Linux is; both have strengths, weaknesses, (dis-)advantages and their usecases in the professional field. The windows desktop is what the world uses to work on (sorry Apple and Linux fans, let’s be realistic here) so managing and administration of workplaces is a huge job market; windows server and Linux are both very valuable skills in the pro world but windows is most likely everyone’s first exposure as most IT starts in support and you don’t really touch servers in support; maybe also do a video to introduce the real power of group policies and AD and how to utilize that power responsibly as you’ve just touched the tip the iceberg? Your corporate AD in general is not something to click around in, there’s hopefully an entire design behind it…there’s really a ton of cool technologies hiding in windows servers which are relatively unknown so maybe a nice failover cluster or IIS video?

great content. Your voice is also soothing. Perfect!

Nostalgia hit me hard when that start sound played. so much fun on the windows xp.

Never, i'll never turn to the dark side

Why not run windows VM on Microsoft integrated hypervisor hyper-v?

Search bar would be great in the group policy editor. But that would make things much easier.

The enthusiasm is so unique!

In case you are looking for ideas for future videos I would like to point out how cool the local running GPT4ALL project is and it allows you to have your own AI models running on your own machine and it just uses your CPU and it's useable. But the part I would really like to see explained is to take it a step further and get the gpt4all-ui project to work in docker because the directions are really something to be desired. This is supposed to allow you to host the AI models on your own server as far as I understand. So you really never have to use chatgpt ever again.

The thing is that Windows is not as fun compared to *nix. I know a number of people that got into *nix in 90s because they had a 386 or even 286 that by then was ancient and just went to town on Minix, BSD or Linux. Windows just doesn't let you run it on anything the same way.

My first experience of windows was Windows 2.03 which was pre-installed on my Amstrad PC2086. Those were the days

Issue with microsoft and their products. They are good undoubtedly, but they have one or two ways in which you are supposed to do things. Those ways aren't always very functional. For instance, windows 11 clearly tries to push the gui elements of windows, and revamps a lot of the old control panel menues, to the point that some (display) are literally impossible to open the old version of. Suspect microsoft is intending on removing the old control panel menues slowly. No matter how much you try to hack the windows you're sitting on, some things will not work because microsoft has their vision. There's a big upside to having a very large userbase though. When there's a problem, it's easy to find solutions, or find ways to hack around issues using scripting or small programs accessing api's, and honestly probably the most fun I have at my job. Using linux mint as a personal computer, and I wont allow any microsoft or apple product in my home - linux's vision of computing is one I very much share, and it embodies what is fun about computers.

my sister doesnt even know how to turn off a pc while she's 17

EARLY GANG!! thank you network chuck, I thought I knew everything and you helped me so much from all your videos. Thank you :)

I have the MS-500, AZ-500, SC-300, MS-100 completed and still learn something new everyday

Can't deny the fact that Amazons REL23AM is the strongest bet to bring power back to this industry after we suffered FTX, Celsius, Tera and so on. Sure if they fail it's done for good, but I don't see that the biggest tech company in the world would put everything at risk just for that.

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Thats Windows 95 sound was so nostalgic. Thanks for adding that in ❤

Fun and informative episode! Thanks

Man the background music in this is too loud. I had to really focus to understand you.

More people need ro invest in the blue chips here. I'm around 90% between BTC and REL23AM combined. Good advice Lark thanks!

thank for sharing your knowledge about windows.. looking forward to see more about basic computer skills and knowledge. awesome video it helps me to understand in easy way... I already subscribed to your channel 👍👍

The last version of Microsoft Windows based on MS-DOS is Windows Me (Millennium Edition). All of the versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 2000 to Windows 11 is based on Windows NT.

Just read the title. Hard no! But I let myself be convinced

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love your channel, great video!

Chuck, we miss your short hacking videos, please bring them back we miss those for sure but good content overall keep it up

That's why you need you do the CompTIA A+ it covers the basics if you can get your hands on a lab!

Thanks, I will go for the md-102, az-800, 801, 900, and 104!

Sweet sweet memories. Thank You 🙏

Hey @NetworkChuck great videos, I always enjoy seeing your passion and insights in the IT industry. I would love to know what are you using when you do the free drawing on the screen? It is an attached physical device or a tablet?

Will you make a video about enabling networking for usb WiFi adapters in virtual box? I’ve been looking everywhere but the answers are all different/everyone’s versions are different and I think you could really shed some light on the topic.

Do you have a video that talks about the day today of someone in the networking section of IT or talk about the different types of certificates and what they look like (like what the path looks like from nothing to these certs)? Kinda new to the scene, have a small pi cluster with plex and a NAS...that's it so far. Love your content btw! Are you always so excited about everything?

i ran an active directory when i was 14 for my house with server 2012 r2, along with hosting a vpn, file shares, and a web server

Windows NT 4.0 was my first Server handling my network traffic, love how you avoided Windows NT workstation edition tho :p

Getting my MCSE was pretty useful for me as a red teamer, so I can concur.

frig chuck... u stress me out so much with these videos about how much i don't know

You could use the glasses as like something to immediately put on right as you start showing something on the computer! If edited well, it would look cool!

I can verify that Windows 11 ARM runs great on M1 Mac with Parallels. I simply used my abandoned PC Windows Key and it was accepted to register it. Some programs nag a lot when you try to start them on the ARM version (despite most of them will run). Azure is also a neat cloud platform. I really prefer it over AWS but many customers already sold their soul to Amazon ;)

When I was studying Windows Server, in 2015 I practiced on a Computer with 4GB RAM 😅 1GB was used by OS - Windows 7 768MB - Windows Server 2008 2 VMs with Windows 7 each 512MB

11:49 in high school, my favorite prank was taking a desktop screen shot, setting it as the background, and using group policy to disable the desktop. People kept trying to click icons that weren’t really there!

From kenya 🇰🇪 and it's midnight. I hear notification of RU-vid I knew it must be Chuck 😅😅

OMG I feel so old. I had every one of the windows. But alongside all the windows I had. I had this big box that had a bunch of red books in it called novell

Thank you Chuck, I was worried that I was going to have to install a Windows partition in my hard drive since I only have Linux.

Thank you. Very good video.

As an IT admin for 8 or 9 years, Windows knowledge is paramount. Knowing the Microsoft ecosystem will get you a job just about anywhere.

I was a kid fresh from high school straight into college thanks too my parents and i hated IT, loved my computers and working with stuff hated being forced too do it. Then the 2008-2012 crash hit i went back too school too be a welder. And now im back recertifying for IT. Time is a flat circle 😅, active directories were so importantent back then we had a seperate 6 month AD course got good at it still do it on my home net works. Thanks chuck alot of guys and gals suck at it for some reason :/.

very helpful guide helped me know windows alot better and know how to handle windows servers and virtuel mechines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your mic and voice sound amazing!!!

Is it needed to have any previous experience in Computer Science (Networking particularly) before starting your course, @NetworkChuck?

Thank Mr. NetworkChuck 😊

If you focus on cloud solutions it will be amazing as it new and many issues can be resolved with cloud

Great Channel! For virtualization on Windows, why just not go to windows features and enable hyper-v instead of 3rd party apps?

A fun exercise to learn how the firewall works; try REMOVING the windows firewall, not just disable it... then put it back. Windows support senior admins couldn't even properly do it, but it'll teach you the firewall and registry really well

Best practice is you don’t create users in the Users root folder of AD. You have a create a different OU for Users.