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Episodes
Internal Corporate Communications in 2026 with Emily Mancini
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How does your company communicate with its employees today? Richard chats with Emily Mancini about her work with companies that manage internal commun...
Securing AI Agents with Niall Merrigan
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI Agents can be powerful tools for an organization - but are they a security risk? Richard talks to Niall Merrigan about his experiences dealing with...
My Home Lab
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to take a look at Richard's home lab? Richard goes solo to share insights about the new infrastructure, hardware, and automation in his ...
Unified Tenant Management with Nik Charlebois-Laprade
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Configuration drift is real - how do you control it in your Azure tenant? Richard talks to Nik Charlebois-Laprade about his ongoing work on desired st...
Sustainable AI with Darshna Shah
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How does artificial intelligence become more sustainable? Richard chats with Darshna Shah about her experiences as Chief AI Officer at Elastic. Darshn...
SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SQL Server 2025 is released - what's in it, and what happens next? Richard chats with Bob Ward about the huge array of announcements coming out of Ign...
Hiring in 2026 with Suzi Edwards-Alexander
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can you hire and get hired in 2026? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with Suzi Edwards-Alexander about her experiences recruiting technology f...
SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to get your SaaS offering on multiple cloud providers? Richard chats with Steve Buchanan about his new role at JAMF, which focuses o...
Hacking using AI with Erica Burgess
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How have large language models impacted hacking? Richard talks to Erica Burgess about her experiences using LLMs for red team hacking, collecting bug ...
Securing Active Directory Certificate Services with Ron Arestia
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You're using Active Directory Certificate Services - but is it configured securely? Richard talks to Ron Arestia about his work with organizations imp...
Getting Started using Purview with Erica Toelle
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to get started with Purview? Richard chats with Erica Toelle about the first steps you can take to harness the power of Purview in your organiza...
Business Process Automation in 2026 with Ian Cooper
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Business Process Automation has been around a long time - what are the latest approaches? Richard talks to Ian Cooper about his work building BPA work...
Ideation to Implementation with Amber Vandenburg
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get an idea to implementation in your organization? Richard chats with Amber Vanderburg about the work she's done helping teams understand ...
Azure in 2026 with Jeremy Winter
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's coming in 2026 for Azure? Richard chats with CVP and Chief Product Officer for Azure, Jeremy Winter, about the announcements at Ignite and what...
What AI can do for SysAdmins in 2026 with Cecilia Wirén
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI tools continue to evolve - what can we do with them today? Richard chats with Cecilia Wirén about her experiences using the latest AI tools to sup...
The SysAdmin in 2026
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new year - and so much to do! To start 2026, Richard flies solo again to discuss the issues he's seen on sysadmins' minds as we head into the new ye...
What Windows Wants for Christmas with Paul Thurrott
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So what does Windows want for Christmas? Paul Thurrott is back to talk about everything that happened to Windows in 2025, and what that might hold for...
Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is zero-trust security evolving? Michele Leroux Bustamante discusses the challenges CISOs face today in controlling access to infrastructure, auth...
Incident Management and the Crowdstrike Event with Liam Westley
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 19, 2024, a misconfigured file sent as part of an update to the Falcon Sensor suite by CrowdStrike caused service outages worldwide. Liam West...
The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to be ready to deploy M365 Copilot in your organization? Richard talks to Nikki Chapple about her latest incarnation of the M365 Cop...
Christmas Gifts for SysAdmins with Joey Snow and Rick Claus
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The seasonal gift show is back - Joey Snow and Rick Claus bring their lists of great gifts for sysadmins. You know they're impossible to buy for, so w...
Azure SRE Agents with Deepthi Chelupati
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can Azure Site Reliability Engineering Agents help your Azure infrastructure? While at Techorama in Utrecht, Richard chatted with Deepthi Chelupat...
Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How resilient are your Azure deployments? Richard chats with Chris Ayers about his work on Azure reliability - not only for customers using Azure, but...
Managing Updates using Autopatch with Aria Hanson
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The future of updating Windows is here! Richard talks to Aria Hanson about Windows Autopatch, the consolidation of Microsoft's various update mechanis...
AI for DBAs with Grant Fritchey
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can the new AI tools help DBAs? Richard chats with Grant Fritchey about his experiences using various types of LLMs to help with his work as a DBA...
Becoming a Cybersecurity Expert with Paula Januszkiewicz
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you become a cybersecurity expert? While at Cybersecurity Intersection in Orlando, Richard chatted with Paula Januszkiewicz about her career in...
The End of NTLM with Steve Syfuhs
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to retire NTLM - but how? Richard chats with Steve Syfuhs about the need and challenge of retiring an ubiquitous authentication protocol fir...
Managing for Failure with Amy Norris
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you manage for failure? While at KCDC, Richard chatted with Amy Norris about building a culture that supports dealing with failure in a healthy...
HaveIBeenPwned with Troy Hunt
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know if one of your accounts has been part of a security breach? Richard chats with Troy Hunt about HaveIBeenPwned, a free service that all...
Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You're down - is it your servers, or someone else's? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sits down with Mandi Walls from Pager Dut...
Certificate Automation with Todd Gardner
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The days of the one-year SSL certificate are coming to an end - are you ready? Richard chats with Todd Gardner about the upcoming requirement from the...
Training for AI with Stephanie Donahue
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get your organization trained up to use AI tools? Richard talks to Stephanie Donahue about her work implementing AI tools at Avanade and wi...
Episode 1000!
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1000! Richard Campbell invites Paul Thurrott to join him to celebrate the milestone episode and answer questions from listeners. From the crea...
Common Azure Mistakes with Scott Sauber
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are common mistakes folks are making with their Azure tenant(s)? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard chatted with Scott Saube...
Data Governance for AI with Martina Grom
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you secure your organization's data to let AI technologies work safely? Richard chats with Martina Grom about her experiences helping sysadmins...
The Power of the Graph with Tony Redmond
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you tapping the power of Microsoft Graph? Richard chats with Tony Redmond about his work teaching people to leverage Microsoft Graph and all the i...
Copilot Adoption in Financial Services with Christina Wheeler
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can the financial services sector teach us about adopting Copilot in our organizations? Richard chats with Christina Wheeler about her work at Mi...
From ClickOps to DevOps with Steven Bucher
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get from ClickOps to DevOps? While at Build, Richard chatted with Steven Bucher about using Copilot in Azure to help build PowerShell scrip...
Copilot Studio with April Dunnam
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you bring AI agents to your organization? Richard chats with April Dunnam about her experiences with Copilot Studio, Microsoft's tool for build...
Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening with Fabric in 2025? While at Build, Richard chatted with Arun Ulag about the fantastic progress Fabric has made in the past year. Ar...
Building Real Software using PowerApps with Luise Freese
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does a PowerApp become a fully-fledged software application? Richard chats with Luise Freese about her experience of taking a PowerApp built by an...
More Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has Azure been innovating lately? While at Build Richard chatted with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich about some of the latest innovations in Azure, in...
Getting More from GitHub with April Yoho
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get more from GitHub in your work routine? Richard chats with April Yoho about how sysadmins can take advantage of more GitHub features to ...
SQL Server 2025 with Bob Ward
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here comes SQL Server 2025! While at Build, Richard chatted with Bob Ward about releasing a preview version of SQL Server 2025. Bob discusses SQL Serv...
The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can modern telemetry solutions help you? While at NDC in Melbourne, Richard chatted with Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb about her approach to educati...
Fixing a Security Vulnerability in Active Directory with Steve Syfuhs
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why would a security vulnerability take more than two years to fix? Richard chats with Steve Syfuhs about the evolution of the response to KB5015754. ...
How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you talk to security? While at NDC Melbourne, Richard chatted with Sarah Young about her approaches to helping folks work with the security tea...
PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's new in PowerShell 7.5? Richard talks to Jason Helmick about the latest version of PowerShell. Jason talks about 7.5 being a version with plenty...
Active Directory in 2025 with Liz Tesch
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Active Directory is 25 years old - are you still managing it like it's 1999? Richard talks to Liz Tesch about her excellent blog post on the subject a...
Building a Career in Cybersecurity with Yuri Diogenes
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make a career in cybersecurity? Richard talks to Yuri Diogenes about his work in cybersecurity, including his book on building a career in ...
Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So what does modern work look like today? Richard talks to Karoliina Kettukari about her new role as the Head of Modern Work for a financial services ...
Agentic AI for IT Pros with Tim Warner
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can agentic AI do for you? Richard talks to Tim Warner about his work utilizing next generation agentic AI technologies to help with sysadmin tas...
How to Not Hate PowerShell with Barbara Forbes
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are some of your team members starting to hate PowerShell? Richard talks to Barbara Forbes about her experiences with teams frustrated by PowerShell. ...
Application Risk in Security Copilot with Ari Schorr
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can Security Copilot help you secure your applications? Richard talks to Ari Schorr about assessing application risk with Microsoft Security Copil...
GitHub Copilot for SysAdmins with Jessica Deen
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can GitHub Copilot do for SysAdmins in 2025? Richard talks to Jessica Deen from GitHub about her experiences using Copilot for her work. Jessica ...
Writing Better PowerShell with Jeff Hicks
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you write better PowerShell? Richard talks to Jeff Hicks about his latest book, Behind the PowerShell Pipeline, and his efforts to promote writ...
Managing AI Costs with Sonia Cuff
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are you managing your AI costs? Richard chats with Sonia Cuff about how she's been helping sysadmins understand how AI technology is billed out an...
Strong Certificate Mapping in Active Directory with Richard Hicks
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you using strong certificate mapping in Active Directory? Richard Hicks returns to the show to talk about the impacts of KB5015754, issued way bac...
Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be secure by design? Richard chats with Karinne Bessette about the scope of the problem around making more secure software. Karin...
Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to take care of an Exchange Server in 2025? Richard chats with Michel de Rooij about his work with Exchange, including the many script...
Managed DevOps Pools with Eliza Tarasila
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you manage your CI/CD pipeline resources? Richard chats with Eliza Tarasila about Managed DevOps Pools in Azure DevOps. Eliza tells the story o...
Upgrading to Windows Server 2025 with Robert Smit
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to upgrade to Windows Server 2025? Richard talks to Robert Smit about his experiences doing an upgrade—with a few important dos and don'ts! Ro...
Microsoft Entra ID Protection with Corissa Koopmans
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can Entra ID Protection help keep your organization resist security breaches? Richard talks to Corissa Koopmans about thinking beyond authenticati...
Querying for Breaches with Mark Morowcyznski
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you Kusto? Richard talks to Mark Morowczynski about his new book, The Definitive Guide to KQL, and the power of Kusto to look across your Azure ten...
SQL 2025 and Fabric SQL with Anna Hoffman
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What about SQL Server in Microsoft Fabric? Richard chats with Anna Hoffman about the preview release of SQL 2025 in Microsoft Fabric and the power of ...
DevOpsDocs with Mattias Karlsson
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are your docs part of your DevOps cycle? Richard chats with Mattias Karlsson about automating documentation for APIs, cloud resources, and more! Matti...
Least Privilege in 2025 with Bailey Bercik
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is least privilege different in 2025? Richard talks to Bailey Bercik about the ongoing efforts to minimize users, administrators, and applications...
Being a SysAdmin in 2025
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first show of 2025, let's talk about being a sysadmin in the coming year. This is the sixth year of Richard going solo on the show to talk abo...
A Very Windows Christmas with Paul Thurrott
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does Windows want for Christmas? Richard chats with Paul Thurrott about the crazy year that Windows has had and what 2025 holds. Paul starts with...
Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with Yitzhak Kesselman
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for some real-time intelligence? Richard chats with Yitzhak Kesselman about Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric. Yitzhak talks about what...
M365 Copilot in Government with Angela Dugan
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can government agencies use M365 Copilot? Soon! Richard chats with Angela Dugan about how government entities: federal, state, counties, and cities, a...
A SysAdmin Christmas with Rick Claus and Joey Snow
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Need some gift ideas for your favorite sysadmin? We're here for you! Richard brings back Rick Claus and Joey Snow for another round of great gadgets t...
Incident Response with Mandi Walls
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does your organization respond to incidents? While at NDC Porto, Richard chatted with Mandi Walls about her experiences with different incidents, ...
Testing Databases with Dan Mallott
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you test your database? While at NDC Porto, Richard chatted with Dan Mallott about building unit tests for transactional databases like SQL Ser...
SQL Server Management Studio with Erin Stellato
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening with SQL Server Management Studio? Richard chats with Erin Stellato, now at Microsoft, about the big jump coming for SSMS. Erin talks...
Software-Defined Networking using Azure Firewall with Aidan Finn
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does Software-Defined Networking in Azure work? Richard chats with Aidan Finn about his experiences working with the suite of Azure networking pro...
Updating Windows on ARM with Aria Hanson
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ARM for Windows is here in the form of the Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs - how do you update them? Richard talks with Aria Hanson about how Windows Updates ...
Securing Data using Azure Virtual Desktop with Jim Duffy
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can you secure your company information with Azure Virtual Desktop? Richard talks to Jim Duffy about his work helping companies comply with NIST S...
Pen Testing Yourself with Paula Januszkiewicz
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can you pen test yourself? Paula Januszkiewicz says yes! Richard talks to Paula about taking an active role in understanding your organization's secur...
OpenAI for PowerShell with Doug Finke
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can OpenAI help you with PowerShell? Richard talks to Doug Finke about his experiences with ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to help him write PowerShel...
Data Security and Governance in M365 with Nikki Chapple
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft 365 Data Governance has always been critical - but it's only getting more important! Richard talks to Nikki Chapple about her experiences wo...
Windows Server 2025 and Active Directory with Orin Thomas
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does Windows Server 2025 bring to Active Directory? Richard chats with Orin Thomas about the new version of Windows Server coming and what to exp...
Asymmetric Encryption with Eli Holderness
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know how asymmetric encryption works? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sat down with Eli Holderness to discuss many of t...
Microsoft 365 and PowerShell with Tony Redmond
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do to Microsoft 365 with PowerShell? Turns out - almost anything! Richard talks to Tony Redmond about his ongoing efforts to educate sysa...
Evolving Generative AI with Alison Cossette
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How is generative AI evolving, and what can we do about it? While at NDC in Oslo, Richard chatted with Alison Cossette about her work as a data scient...
The Security Risks of AI with Steve Poole
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership wants to get on the AI bandwagon - what are the security risks? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sat down with Steve...
Threat Modeling in the Cloud with Romina Druta & Daniela Cruzes
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the threats your cloud application and infrastructure are facing? While at NDC Oslo, Richard chatted with Daniela Cruzes and Romina Druta abo...
Implementing Passkeys with Tarek Dawoud
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready for passkeys? Richard talks to Tarek Dawoud from Microsoft about the evolution of passwordless access with passkeys. Tarek talks about t...
Optimizing Cloud Recovery Costs with Natalie Serebryakova
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it cost to recover from a disaster? While at NDC Oslo, Richard chatted with Natalie Serebryakova about her work helping companies understand...
Microsoft Cloud PKI with Richard Hicks
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to move your device certificate authority to the cloud? Richard chats with Richard Hicks about Microsoft Cloud PKI - certificate management for ...
Data Risk Management using Purview with Joanne Klein
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are you protecting your organization's data? Richard chats with Joanne Klein about her work with Microsoft Purview to help with data protection, m...
The Power of Data in the Cloud with Arun Ulag
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How has the cloud transformed the way we work with data? While at Build in Seattle, Richard sat down with Arun Ulag, Microsoft CVP of Azure Data, to d...
The Hardware of Azure with Rani Borkar
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What hardware runs Azure today and into the future? While at Build in Seattle, Richard sat down with Rani Borkar to discuss the hardware that makes up...
NGINX as a Service with Buu Lam
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More application platform pieces make your life better! While at Build in Seattle, Richard sat down with Buu Lam of F5 to discuss F5's latest offering...
The Hard Part of Machine Learning with Lynn Langit
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the hard parts of machine learning? Richard chats with Lynn Langit about her work helping the Mayo Clinic improve patient outcomes using mach...
Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Yuri Diogenes
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you rolled out Microsoft Defender for Cloud? Richard chats with Yuri Diogenes about the bundle of tools under the Defender for Cloud moniker. Yur...
Copilot in your Intranet with Susan Hanley
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can Microsoft Copilot make your intranet better? Richard chats with Susan Hanley about her experiences adding Copilot into the intranet via the Co...
Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How are your company's Apple devices connected to the enterprise? Richard talks to Michael Epping about the recent additions in Entra that support the...
PowerApp Extensibility with Christina Wheeler
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can you use PowerApps to extend the functionality of other apps? Richard talks to Christina Wheeler about her efforts to teach folks to use PowerA...
The End of Windows 10 with Paul Thurrott
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two old guys talk about Windows AGAIN? Richard brings back Paul Thurrott for the tenth time to discuss Windows more. This time, the discussion focuses...