[John Rogers]

There are two main things that run on a server be it Windows or Linux/Unix and they are databases or applications. I would suggest adding how to install and setup a database such as OracleXE, MS SQL Server and MySQL which all have free versions and that should take two weeks easily. To have someone understand Oracle's TNS system is very handy. These could each be done on a VM and maybe do some cron jobs for database hot backups and such.

Then I would have them install and configure a PHP/HTML server and then an Oracle Forms server and maybe throw in HTTPS as a final capper. Having the pleasure of working with sysadmins that understood what the server would be running was great but working with sysadmins that thought it never mattered to know that stuff was depressing.