Orin Thomas breaks down what happened after the MCSE and what Microsoft’s Windows Server certification story looks like now—especially for Windows Server 2025-era realities. He explains the difference between certifications and newer “credentials,” walks through the Windows Server Hybrid Admin Associate path (two exams: AZ-800 and AZ-801), and calls out a key modern twist: the exams are “open book” to Microsoft Learn in a split view—helpful, but not “ask an LLM to do your homework” helpful. He also highlights practical options like the Active Directory Applied Skills Credential, then maps what gets measured across real admin work: deploying and managing Active Directory in hybrid scenarios, managing Windows Server and workloads with tools like Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc, securing servers, handling virtualization with Hyper-V, working with containers, planning failover and recovery, migrating servers and workloads, and monitoring/troubleshooting the stuff that actually breaks on Tuesdays.
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The inevitable sequels
Hollywood keeps stretching good ideas into progressively worse sequels. We don’t. These are the related videos—spiritual siblings of the one you just watched—as good or better than this video. Expect callbacks, new plot twists, and maybe even a scene-stealing cameo from a lower third.
