MCSA Guide to Installation, Storage, and Compute with Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Exam 70-740 (Networking)

Who else is reading this book in 2025?I am aware the MCSA was retired in June 2020 but I still bought this book because it's dirt cheap, has lab activities (don't bother with the chapter 12 activities as those are outdated), and I wanted to see how things were done before the cloud took over.Anyway get this book if you're a book learner (and don't want to bore yourself watching a bunch of videos) and want step by step instructions.

I found the book to be well written. However, reading a book is not sufficient to pass the MS certifications. That's why I rely on the lab activities to get a lot of hands on. Greg gave good guidance and insights into building out a nested virtual lab environment (which I tweaked to suite my needs and VMWare WS environment (Mac/VMWare Fusion). Anyway, I did find some lab activities on nano server that I couldn't get to work, apparently because MS had pulled the nano docker files from their web site (at lease for Server 2016). The book had some emails to contact the author, and I took a shot and pinged him. To my amazement, he replied in less than an hour, and gave me updated notes on how to get the labs to work. Based on that, I give this book 5 starts. This book seemed to cost a bit more than some of the other's out there on the same subject, but I found that often you get what you pay for, and I'd rather pay a little extra for a better book for an author who cares to help. Thanks again, Greg.

It was as described--crisp clean copy of a book I needed for class--and arrived when promised, save for the Polar Vortex that effectively closed MIchigan in the last week of January. The only issue, MY fault, not that of the seller, was that I didn't realize the book was coming from the UK....and therefore wasn't eligible for Prime delivery.

E book easy access

Easy to follow instructions/ guides and exercises Howe there are a few typos that need to be corrected in the next edition that make a big difference in the execution of the exercises. Set up of the lab needs better explanation.

Excellent

I went into this book knowing basically nothing at all. I literally went from zero to hero in 3 months. You need to read all 3 books in this series though to truly understand system administration. But once you do read all 3 books(not even all the way through, just 70%), you will just "get it".Seriously this was a good book(s).Then read "powershell in a month of lunches". Once you read all those 4 books, you will more or less be a system administrator. All those years I went to school literally compressed into like 3 books for like $100 instead of paying $10,000 like i did.

Good for studying servers and any certs associated with them