Best way to learn network/ad/infrastructure stuff

[ringo747]

I work mostly with SharePoint and am fairly comfortable with the product itself and the development side, however, as I am attending more customer workshops I find I come into lots of scenarios where a better understanding of networks/domains/hardware would be beneficial. If you had to learn all this stuff how would you go about it?

Some useful topics would be:
Domains - specifically around trusts
Networking - load balancing, ssl offloading, reverse proxies, TMG/UAG, network configuration i.e. red/yellow zones

Is there any resources that would be worth looking at to help my general knowledge on the infrastructure side of things? I'd like to be more confident in continuing these sort of discussions when they arise as opposed to saying "I'll check that out and get back to you".

 

[ringo747]

Yes, that is the problem. It's very difficult to know where to start other than reading up on some wiki articles.

I suppose like everything else it develops with experience but a bit of solid background knowledge would be very beneficial.