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How about obtaining practical experience with Windows Server

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in a hybrid administration context? Well,

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because the cloud labs that we have at Pluralsight

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in A Cloud Guru are all cloudy,

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there's not all that much dealing with Windows Server and Active Directory and

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that kind of stuff, so I would instead recommend that you do a certification

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practice lab. I mentioned this in the previous module,

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so I'm not going to repeat myself, but it involves you setting up a

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hypervisor on your desktop or laptop computer,

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like a Windows 10 or Windows 11 Hyper‑V situation, and creating very small

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virtual machines, they don't need to have more than say 2 GB of RAM

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allocated to each one, where you've got a multi‑domain,

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multi‑forest environment so that you can practice with replication and

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trusts and all of that kind of stuff. And then you can stand up a

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site‑to‑site VPN into Azure because you have an Azure free account I'm

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trusting, and this really gives you the true hybrid experience. Because

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once that IPSec tunnel is up,

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you could take virtual machines in Azure and join them

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to your local on‑premises domain,

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you can extend your on‑premises domain by deploying domain

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controllers for it out in the cloud, or you could create

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forest trusts across the cloud.

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So there's lots of possibilities, particularly if you're an experimental kinesthetic learner.