How to Be a Great System Administrator in 3 Steps

If you're looking to become a system administrator check out these 3 steps.

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[techguy]

You are spot on with Powershell, Cloud and a home lab. I would suggest anyone wanting to dive into the Sys Admin field that setting up a Hyper-V environment would greatly benefit you. Create a server, promote it to a Domain Controller, setup Active Directory first and have users created. Create 2 or 3 client PC's with Windows 10 and use those machines for users to log into. You will want to create a NAT switch to get all these virtual machines to talk to each other. Also setup a DHCP server and learn to define scopes. Assign static IP's to your clients by using their MAC addresses. This will definitely help get you started.

[aaronvenomfang]

Here is my top 5:
1) Never automate something that you can't do manually yourself and don't fully understand.
2) Advanced skills are good basics. Focus on the basics, everything builds from them.
3) Learn Powershell, BASH/ZSH, and Python.
4) Not everything can, or should, be ran in the cloud.
5) Learn to build your own private cloud.

[LVang]

I love this guy to point me the right way. The hardest part about self-taught are stay motivation and perseverance toward your goal.

[rdumiak]

Great suggestions - Along with Automation, Cloud basics and Home Lab, I would add networking and security basics.

[liamcrowder]

Always skeptical of videos like this but this all legit advice.

[KevtechITSupport]

That is correct sir, Azure is good for 30 days. You can sign up for free and use it for 30 days. Labs, labs and more labs help with getting familiar with cloud and getting yourself ready for a system admin role. Did I forget to mentioned labs?

[pieterwillembotha]

I knew a few people who were either network or systems adminitrators (actually head of a department) and they told me that they learned everything they needed to know from the ground up, literally, by working from the bottom and sticking with it. Easy to do when it's a topic you're interested in.

[topunnisdrowning]

Timestamps
0:51 Powershell (Python and Bash)
2:05 Cloud
3:21 Create a Homelab

[Iliuzija]

My journey to the position of IT administrator started with volunteering in that organization. The organization was poor, unable to hire a professional, so after volunteering offered me to stay and work. I got a chance to build everything from scratch and I still do. Thank you for this video, I think you are 100 percent right.

[zidanetribal]

I am so amazed how Python is essential in today's IT landscape since it allows automation. Thank you Sir for this, as for someone like me shifting career from Engineering to IT, this kind of advise that self study is still one of the best approach in learning is reassuring. Cheers~

[prabathpallewela]

Great suggestions. Home lab, power shell, cloud .

[kaushallegion]

I agree with you 100%, automate whatever you can a because you can allocate your time on learning new things like troubleshooting, performance analyzing and tuning.

[celestialadministration]

Coursera, skillshare and udemy. The first one is the best because you won't snooze or become less engaged.

[techdad]

I would also like to add keep learning and keep pressing forward. Employers like to see self-driven individuals, they stand out from the pack.

[gabe]

Networking and communication skills are probably the most important in my opinion !

[tmasst]

Take a system administrator and or a help desk technician/engineer to lunch and dinner and pick their brain. Set up a mentor-mentee schedule. While I definitely agree that learning on your own produces excellent level of mastery if you are disciplined and stay with your training schedule 1 to 4 hours a day a good Mentor can shave countless precious hours and years off of your learning time and understanding time especially when it comes down to the heart of what we do in system administration... Troubleshooting!

[incrediblez]

Right now I'm going over new A+ and network+. Also gonna cover the windows 10 administration book. See if I can find an entry level position. I'll start at low end. Just want an opportunity to build experience.

[aniketchauhan]

Having a critical thinking and problem solving with Networking and security things will make you better sys admin and learning about virtualization and hardware is a plus as well

[cheryls.]

Thank you for getting straight to the point!! Watched 3 vids & it took people 5+ mins. to dive right in.

[rolandkatsuragi]

I'm interested getting into IT primarily because someone I know, who isn't very tech savvy, was able to successfully do it for a few years, and it seems like the money is worth it.