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Enterprise Mobility in the Pandemic with Richard Hicks
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise Mobility is no longer optional! Richard talks to Richard Hicks about his work during the pandemic around remote connectivity. The early day...
Serverless Databases with Monica Rathbun
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can you go serverless with databases? Monica Rathbun says yes! Richard chats with Monica about Microsoft's serverless mode for SQL Azure. Same SQL dat...
Improving Productivity using Windows Virtual Desktop with Jen Sheerin
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can Windows Virtual Desktop improve productivity? Richard chats with Jen Sheerin about the kinds of applications better served by virtualization. ...
Security Beyond the Edge with Ned Pyle
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Perimeter security is one thing - what about beyond the edge? Richard chats with Ned Pyle about a series of blog posts (links in the show notes) to he...
Compassion During the Pandemic with April Wensel
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can compassion help during the pandemic? Richard talks to April Wensel about the importance of compassion at this difficult time. April talks abou...
From SCCM to Intune and Back with Greg Shields
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SCCM or Intune? Do you need to choose? Should you choose? Richard chats with Greg Shields about device management using SCCM and/or Intune. Greg admit...
Incident Response During the Pandemic with Julie Gunderson
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does incident response look like during the pandemic? Richard talks to Julie Gunderson of PagerDuty about what it takes to respond to an incident...
SQL Server Tooling with Vicky Harp
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is your preferred SQL Server tool? Richard chats with Vicky Harp, who oversees the development of many of the tools you count on to manage all so...
Snarking About the Cloud with Corey Quinn
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for some cloud snark? Richard chats with Corey Quinn, the cloud economist and snarky commenter on all things cloud. The conversation digs into h...
Becoming Ansible with Josh Duffney
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to become Ansible? Richard chats with Josh Duffney about his book on Ansible - using a play on the term "become," which is the...
Remote Support with Jessica Deen
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has sent everyone home to work - how do you support them? Richard chats with Jessica Deen about her work doing remote support both before...
Bringing Your Teams Together using Teams with Tracy van der Schyff
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With folks working remotely more than ever, how do you keep your team together? Richard chats with Tracy van der Schyff about her work building tools ...
The Hybrid Workforce and Windows Update with Dave Backman
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Hybrid Workforce is here to stay - how do you update Windows? Richard chats with Dave Backman about what it means to manage a hybrid workforce, wh...
How Black Hats Profit with Paula Januszkiewicz
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do criminal hackers make money hacking? Richard chats with Paula Januszkiewicz about the methods used by criminals to steal money through various ...
Protecting Hard Drives using BitLocker and MBAM with Julie Andreacola
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You sent machines home during the pandemic - are the drives encrypted? Richard talks to Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Julie Andreacola about BitLoc...
ARM Templates at Scale with Pierre Roman
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
ARM Templates are awesome - but what happens when they get big? Richard chats with Pierre Roman on the Cloud Advocates team at Microsoft about how ARM...
Pandemic Productivity with Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How is your productivity during the pandemic? And the folks you work with? Richard talks to Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick, authors of Agile Co...
Enterprise Class WiFi Security with Avril Salter
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How secure is your office Wi-Fi? Richard chats with Dr. Avril Salter about using enterprise security features in Wi-Fi. The conversation starts out fo...
Genomic-Scale Cloud Data Analysis Pipelines with Lynn Langit
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is big data, and then there is genomic-scale. Richard talks to Lynn Langit about her work in large scale data analytics around the pandemic. Lyn...
Understanding Cloud Performance Issues with Lori Mac Vittie
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are performance issues in the cloud? Lori Mac Vittie says yes! Richard chats with Lori about how just buying more cloud might increase capacity ...
Securing Your New Cloud with Dana Epp
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You've moved to the cloud - you're secure, right? Richard chats with Dana Epp about what you should be doing to secure your cloud services in Azure. D...
Automating Workflows using Power Automate with Sandy Ussia
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to automate? Richard chats with Sandy Ussia about Power Automate, formerly known as Flow (although the term flow is never far away). But Power A...
Coronavirus Threats to Office 365 with Susan Bradley
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Black Hats are targeting your users' fears - are you prepared? Richard talks with Susan Bradley about the focus of attackers on COVID-19 topics. S...
Managing Your Hybrid Cloud using Azure Arc with Thomas Maurer
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We all have a hybrid cloud solution - how do you manage it? Richard chats with Thomas Maurer about Azure Arc, a tool in the Azure suite for managing v...
Tuning Home WiFi with Ryan Woodings
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You've got everyone working from home - how is their WiFi holding up? After the initial rush to get folks working from home, there's the need to work ...
Unifying Structured and Unstructured Data using Azure Synapse with Jen Stirrup
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What can Azure Synapse do for you? Richard chats with Jen Stirrup about Microsoft's Azure Synapse Analytics. Jen talks about how most companies have s...
Preparing Your Office for Return-to-Work with Cynthia Milota
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to have employees back in the office? As part of the Pandemic Series, Richard talks to Cynthia Milota about what preparations need to be...
The Windows Cycle with Paul Thurrott
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two old guys bicker about Windows! Richard chats with Paul Thurrott about the current state of Windows Desktop, and the cycles that keep recurring - p...
Business Email Compromise with Niall Merrigan
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you stop the company email from being compromised? Richard talks to Niall Merrigan about the sophisticated level of hacks going on in business ...
Windows Terminal 1.0 with Kayla Cinnamon
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Windows Terminal 1.0 is shipped! Richard talks to Kayla Cinnamon about the open-source project that is Windows Terminal. The conversation starts with ...
Virtual Desktop for Work at Home with Grant Becker
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Could Windows Virtual Desktop be your organization's Work-From-Home solution? Another episode in the Pandemic Series, Richard talks to Grant Becker ab...
Data Governance in 2020 with Susan Hanley
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How robust is the data governance in your organization? Richard talks to Susan Hanley about the various elements that go into data governance, startin...
Show 700!
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's Show 700! Richard brings his friend Jeremy Moskowitz on to celebrate making 700 episodes of RunAs. The conversation spans the history of the show...
Getting Value from Unstructured Data with Seth Juarez
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get value from the unstructured data in your organization? Richard chats with Seth Juarez about the array of AI-related services that Micro...
Database Administration During a Crisis with Brent Ozar
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Databases are important during a crisis - how are yours? Richard talks to Brent Ozar about how the pandemic has effected workloads for databases and D...
WireShark in 2020 with Laura Chappell
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WireShark has evolved - are you using the latest? Richard talks to Laura Chappell about her on-going efforts to teach IT folks more about what is happ...
Cybersecurity During the Pandemic with Ann Johnson
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even during a pandemic, the bad actors are out there. Richard talks to Ann Johnson, Corporate VP for Cybersecurity at Microsoft about the security act...
WiFi using Ubiquiti with Daniel Piessens
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's your WiFi network solution? Richard chats with Daniel Piessens about the Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi devices available today. What started as a straigh...
Business Continuity with Sonia Cuff
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How's your business continuity? As part of the Pandemic Series, Richard talks to Sonia Cuff about the role of IT in business continuity. As Sonia says...
Windows Autopilot with Michael Niehaus
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are your PC deployments on Autopilot? Richard talks to Michael Niehaus about Windows Autopilot, which offers a centralized way to deploy to PCs, both ...
VPNs in the Pandemic with Richard Hicks
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Next up in the Pandemic Series - how is your VPN? Richard talks to Richard Hicks about the vast increase in demand for VPN services as employees work ...
Cloud Adoption Framework with Evelyn Padrino
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to move to the cloud? Richard talks to Evelyn Padrino about the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. Evelyn describes how Microsoft has b...
Office 365 Governance for Work From Home with Martina Grom
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are you managing everyone working from home? Second in the Pandemic Series, Richard talks to Martina Grom about the challenges around maintaining ...
Microsoft 365 Desired State Configuration with Nik Charlebois
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you keep the configuration of your Microsoft 365 resources consistent? Richard talks to Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Nik Charlebois about t...
Bandwidth in the Pandemic with Cameron Fuller
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first of the Pandemic series - how's your bandwidth? Richard talks to Cameron Fuller about some of the issues IT folks are dealing with during the...
Terraform with Jennelle Crothers
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is Terraform, and why should you use it? Richard chats with Jennelle Crothers about HashiCorp's open source project called Terraform, providing c...
Azure DevOps for Ops with Michael Levan
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DevOps involves a whole organization - but what can Ops do to facilitate DevOps? Richard chats with Michael Levan about the role of Ops in the DevOps ...
Migrating from Server 2008 to Server 2019 with Sonia Cuff
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 went out of support as of January 14, 2020. Now what? Richard talks to Sonia Cuff about what your options are to deal ...
Exchange in 2020 with Gareth Gudger
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you care about mail, there are important things coming in 2020! Richard chats with Gareth Gudger about recent announcements from Microsoft that wil...
From DBA to Data Analyst to Data Scientist with Ginger Grant
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to become a data scientist? Richard chats with Ginger Grant about her experience talking to DBAs about getting into data analysis an...
Information Technology in the Time of Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does IT Pros do their jobs during a pandemic? It may sound like an April Fools Day joke, but it's not. The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significa...
Teams as an Intranet with Stephanie Donahue
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Teams in Office 365 is a hit - but should it be your intranet? Richard talks with Stephanie Donahue about the role that Teams can play in your organiz...
Protecting Your Organization using Azure Sentinel with Paul Keely
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is Azure Sentinel, and how can it help protect your organization? Richard chats with Paul Keely about Azure Sentinel, a set of tools that provide...
Data Governance and Power BI with Melissa Coates
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Power BI is a hit! Now what? Richard chats with Melissa Coates about the challenges of applying data governance to analytics tools like Power BI. Meli...
Office 365 Intelligent Substrate with Jeffrey Snover
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's an intelligent substrate? Richard chats with Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover about his new role in Office 365. About a year ago Jeff ...
Managing CosmosDB with Deborah Chen
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you manage CosmosDB? Richard chats with Deborah Chen from the CosmosDB team about what it takes to care and feed the cloud-based NoSQL data sto...
Operations Runbooks in Octopus Deploy with Michael Richardson
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can a deployment tool make your disaster recovery process easier? Richard chats with Michael Richardson of Octopus Deploy about Operations Runbook...
Passwordless Authentication with Libby Brown
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2020 - why are we still using passwords? Richard chats with Libby Brown about the on-going efforts to make passwordless authentication work great...
Inspiring Your Team to Learn with Don Jones
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to get your team learning new skills? Richard chats with Don Jones about the entire learning process in the IT profession. Don discu...
Writing Good T-SQL in 2020 with Pam Lahoud and Pedro Lopes
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Links:SQL Server 2019Query Tuning AssistantLearn T-SQL QueryingAzure SQL DatabaseSQL Workshops
Azure Sphere in 2020 with James Scott
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Azure Sphere continues to evolve - what's the latest? While at Ignite in Orlando, Richard sat down with James Scott to talk about how Azure Sphere has...
From SharePoint to PowerApps with Christina Wheeler
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SharePoint custom solutions are powerful - but how do you get them into the cloud? Richard talks with Christina Wheeler about her work moving complex ...
SQL Questions and Answers at SQL Intersection Fall 2019
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are SQL people concerned about at the end of 2019? While in Las Vegas at SQL Intersection, Richard hosts the semi-annual question and answer sess...
The Next Decade in IT
01 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! It's 2020 - the future is here! What is the career of an IT Professional going to look like in this decade? Richard flies solo, pullin...
Azure Data Share with Joanna Podgoetsky
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you share company data outside of the company? While at Ignite in Orlando, Richard talked to Joanna Podgoetsky about Azure Data Share, a new to...
MLOps with Damian Brady
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You know about DevOps - but what about MLOps? While at Ignite in Orlando, Richard talked to Damian Brady about how Machine Learning projects need to g...
Python and SQL Server with Julie Smith
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Python and SQL Server together? Julie Smith says yes! Richard chats with Julie about the strengths of Python in various tasks around databases includi...
The Unicorn Project with Gene Kim
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gene Kim is out with a new book - The Unicorn Project! Richard chats with Gene about his latest book - a fictionalized story of an organization strugg...
Infrastructure as Code using Ansible with Josh Duffney
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you managing your infrastructure with code? Richard chats with Josh Duffney about his current toolset for writing infrastructure as code, includin...
The Evolution of Collaboration with Heather Newman
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Collaboration continues to evolve - how do you do it? Richard chats with Heather Newman about the tooling and techniques that have changed over the ye...
Microsoft 365 with Stephen Rose
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is Microsoft 365, and why do you need some? Richard chats with Stephen Rose about the superset that is Microsoft 365, encompassing Office 365, Wi...
DevOps for DBAs with Kendra Little
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Does DevOps make sense for DBAs? Richard chats with Kendra Little about how DevOps practices have spread throughout the development process - and yet ...
Managing Groups and Teams in Office 365 with Tony Redmond
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you keep your groups and teams in Office 365 under control? Richard chats with Tony Redmond about Office 365 and how individual users can creat...
Azure Governance with Phoummala Schmitt
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Your organization is using Azure - but is it under control? Richard chats with Phoummala Schmitt about policy, compliance, and governance in Azure. Of...
Secure Deployment with Mikael Nyström
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can deploying software and updates enable a hack? Richard chats with Mikael Nyström about doing secure deployments - and this leads to a conversation...
Office 365 Security and Compliance with Erica Toelle
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you compliant? What does that even mean? Richard chats with Erica Toelle about the various security and compliance features in Office 365. Erica t...
SysInternals with Sami Laiho
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you using SysInternals? Richard chats with Sami Laiho about Mark Russinovich's masterwork. Sami talks a bit about the history of SysInternals and ...
Securing Your Cloud with Paula Januszkiewicz
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is your cloud secure? Richard chats with Paula Januszkiewicz about what it takes to secure your cloud - that is, the cloud services that you're paying...
Mobile Device Management in 2019 with Jeremy Moskowitz
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are you managing mobile device? Richard chats with Jeremy Moskowitz about the world of mobile device management and how it continues to evolve. Je...
DORA 2019 with Nicole Forsgren and Dustin Smith
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2019 - has DevOps 'crossed the chasm'? Richard chats with Nicole Forsgren and Dustin Smith about the latest DevOps report, showing that in all as...
Teaching and Learning with Don Jones
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is it to teach, and what is it to learn when you're in IT? Richard chats with Don Jones about his on-going work on his book Be The Master and how...
Office 365 Governance with Martina Grom
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Office 365 has a ton of features - how do you manage them effectively? Richard chats with Martina Grom about the various aspects of Office 365 that af...
Controlling Cloud Costs with Corey Quinn
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How much is the cloud costing you? Richard chats with Corey Quinn about his work as a consultant for cloud billing - finding ways to reduce the cost o...
Software Defined Networking with Claudia de Luna
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What do you know about software-defined networking (SDN)? Richard chats with Claudia de Luna about her work in SDN, including implementing Cisco's App...
SQL Q and A from SQL Intersection Spring 2019
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What questions do you have for the SQL community? While in Orlando at SQL Intersection, Richard hosts the semi-annual question and answer session for ...
Does Windows Still Matter with Paul Thurrott
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Does Windows still matter? Richard and Paul Thurrott spend the better part of an hour debating back-and-forth about the state of Windows and the need ...
Windows Admin Center with Haley Rowland
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for a new Windows administration console? Richard chats with Haley Rowland about Windows Admin Center, a browser-based administration tool that ...
Windows Terminal with Richard Turner
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is it time for a new Windows Terminal? Richard talks to Richard Turner about the announcement at Build of the new Windows Terminal. The conversation s...
DevOps for Enterprises with Rosalind Radcliffe
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is DevOps only for startups? Rosalind Radcliffe says no! The largest enterprises can benefit from DevOps practices, the challenge is finding the right...
IoT in 2019 with Sam George
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2019 - what's new with the Internet of Things? While at the Build conference in Seattle, Richard sat down with Sam George to talk about the lates...
PowerApps with Sandy Ussia
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What can PowerApps do for you? Richard chats with Sandy Ussia about her work with PowerApps and Flow to help organizations build custom applications t...
CosmosDB with Mark Brown
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The cloud-based distributed database is a product you can buy by the minute! While at Build, Richard chats with Mark Brown about CosmosDB, Microsoft's...
Speaking the Language of Machine Learning with Jen Underwood
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Machine learning has brought new terms and language to data - do you speak it? Richard chats with Jen Underwood about how machine learning has added c...
WSUS Maintenance with Adam Marshall
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you maintain Windows Server Update Services? Richard chats with Adam Marshall about all the maintenance that WSUS needs over time - and the too...
Making Microsoft Teams Effective with Melissa Hubbard
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft Teams is popular, but is it effective? Richard talks with Melissa Hubbard about how to get the most of out of Teams. Melissa talks about the...
Migrating to Windows Server 2019 with Dave Kawula
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is it time to migrate to Server 2019? Richard chats with Dave Kawula who says YES! After a bit of a bumpy start, Server 2019 is good to go and offers ...
Azure Data Lakes with Stacia Varga
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's a data lake and why do you need one? Richard chats with Stacia Varga about the evolving landscape of data analytics - focusing on how the cloud...
Is it Time for Server 2019 with Jason Helmick
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
WIndows Server 2019 has been out since November 2018 - is it time to install it? Richard talks to Jason Helmick about how the creation of Windows has ...
Information Architecture in SharePoint with Susan Hanley
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
SharePoint is not just a product, it's a tool for helping your organization manage critical information. Are you taking advantage of it? Richard chats...
Modernizing the Network with Jeff Stokes
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
IT may be evolving, but are all aspects of your IT organization advancing? Richard chats with Jeff Stokes, former Microsoft PFE and now working at Tan...