Windows server administration resources for Linux administrators?

Solution 1:

Some specifics that will probably be some help:

Various utilities from Sysinternals: ProcExp, TCPView, etc. Mark Russinovich used to be an independent developer, who seemed to know more about windows than the windows developers themselves. Now he seems to be on the MS payroll. I use his utilities daily.

"The Dude" network utility from MikroTik... very nice utility for keeping an eye on what's going on with the network.

CYGWIN... for a linux guy, this will be the next best thing to home. But keep in mind its living on top of windows, so you will probably run in to some irritating limitations. Still, you'll have some familiar tools.

Look up "god mode" for windows ... it puts all the most used windows sysadmin tools in one place. Nice little easter egg from MS.

And then of course, there's google, which will become your new best friend all over again.