RunAs Radio

Linux on Hyper-V with Kevin Kelling

17 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why would you run Linux on Hyper-V? Richard chats with Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Kevin Kelling about his experiences working with a customer th...

Testing PowerShell using PowerShell with Adam Bertram

10 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build sustainable PowerShell? By testing it! Richard talks to Adam Bertram about his work with Pester, the testing library for PowerShell. ...

Solving Identity using Azure Active Directory with Joey Snow

03 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get identity into the cloud? Richard talks to Joey Snow about his role helping folks with Azure Active Directory. Azure AD is more than jus...

Direct Memory Access Vulnerabilities with Sami Laiho

26 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

DMA vulnerabilities have been around for ten years - are your machines in danger? Richard talks to Sami Laiho about his experiences trying to close th...

Automation using Azure with Jennelle Crothers

19 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How can automation help you? Richard chats with Jennelle Crothers about her work automating tasks with Azure. So what does automation mean to you? Jen...

Least Privilege using Group Policy with Jeremy Moskowitz

12 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Can Group Policy help protect your user's machines? Definitely! Richard chats with Jeremy Moskowitz about his on-going work with group policy, includi...

The Delivery Pipeline with Steven Murawski

05 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What's the Delivery Pipeline and why should you care? Richard chats with Steven Murawaski about his work at Chef, helping organizations get more effec...

Practical Data Science with Rafal Lukawiecki

29 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get started in data science? Richard chats with long time data scientist Rafal Lukawiecki about practical data science. Rafal starts out fo...

Doing Deployment Right with Johan Arwidmark

22 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Johan is back, and still doing deployment right! Richard talks to Johan Arwidmark about best practices and clear thinking around deployment. Johsan st...

Azure in the Oil and Gas Industry with John Paul Cook

15 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The oil and gas industry is in the cloud! Richard chats with John Paul Cook about his work bringing various Azure technologies to bear on the oil and ...

OneDrive for Business with Stephen Rose

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Rose is back and in a new role! Richard chats with Stephen about his work on OneDrive for Business, which is one of the great cloud-enabling p...

Using PowerShell in Linux with Timothy Warner

01 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

PowerShell? On Linux? Why would you DO that? Richard chats with Tim Warner about the recent announcements around making PowerShell open source and ava...

Configuration Manager 2016 with Steve Rachui

22 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2017, do you know where your config manager is? Richard chats with Microsoft PFE Steven Rachui about his experiences helping companies manage sub...

The MongoDB Exploit with Niall Merrigan

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are your noSQL stores safe? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with Niall Merrigan about the latest wave of exploits targeting MongoDB, ElasticSearc...

Scaling in the Cloud with Corey Sanders

08 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Of course you can scale in the cloud - but exactly how? Richard chats with Corey Sanders who goes on a whirlwind tour of the many options in Azure to ...

JSON for Azure with Aidan Finn

01 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

JSON for IT folks? Yes! Richard talks to Aidan Finn about his experiences actually getting into configuration-as-code. Aidan talks about discovering t...

DirectAccess on Windows 10 with Richard Hicks

25 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

VPNs don't have to suck! Richard chats with Richard Hicks about the latest in DirectAccess, Microsoft's built in VPN technology that makes maintaining...

WireShark with Timothy Warner

18 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Have you used WireShark? Richard chats with Tim Warner of Pluralsight about his experiences working with this super-powerful open source network inspe...

Office 365 Security with J Peter Bruzzese

11 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The cloud is secure, right? Richard chats with J Peter Bruzzese about Office 365 Security - focusing primarily on Exchange Online. The social engineer...

Microsoft in 2017 with Paul Thurrott

04 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft had a pretty good year in 2016 - or did it? Richard chats with Paul Thurrott about his impressions on Microsoft in the past year with an eye...

Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode with Fred Pullen

28 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Still have applications that depend on Internet Explorer? Richard talks to Fred Pullen from the Edge team about IE Enterprise Mode, allowing IT folks ...

SQL Server 2016 SP1 with Bob Ward

21 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

SQL Server 2016 SP1 has shipped - what's new? Richard chats with Bob Ward about the latest in SQL Server, some of which was announced at the Connect e...

The DevOps Handbook with Gene Kim

14 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The DevOps Handbook is finally released! Richard chats with the one-and-only Gene Kim about the five years of effort that have gone into making the De...

Microsoft Azure Networking with Albert Greenberg

07 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to make Azure networking actually work? Richard chats with Microsoft VP Albert Greenberg about the whole of Azure networking. The co...

Keeping Active Directory Data Up to Date with Chris Johnson

30 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does your Active Directory data look? Richard chats with Chris Johnson of Hyperfish about how important AD personnel data is, and the terrible con...

Nano Server with Andrew Mason

23 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for Nano Server? Richard chats with Andrew Mason, one of the folks at Microsoft responsible for creating Nano Server. The conversation dives int...

SQL Q and A from SQL Intersection Las Vegas!

16 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Once again into the breach of answering questions about SQL Server! Richard hosts the open Q and A session with Kim Tripp, Paul Randal, Bob Ward and a...

PowerShell at Ten Years with Don Jones

14 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

PowerShell is ten years old! How did that happen! Richard chats with Don Jones about his on-going enthusiasm for PowerShell creating the awesome Power...

Exchange at Ignite with Gareth Gudger

09 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft Ignite was huge! What's an Exchange admin to do? Richard chats Gareth Gudger about his favorite sessions from Ignite in Atlanta that focused...

UEFI and Secure Boot with Mark Minasi

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The BIOS has evolved, and we need to take advantage of it! While at Ignite in Atlanta, Richard sat down with Mark Minasi to talk about UEFI and Secure...

App Compat in Windows 10 with Chris Jackson

02 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to make your applications work in Windows 10? While at Ignite, Richard sat down with Chris Jackson to talk about what's hard and wha...

Data Analytics with Jen Stirrup

31 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does data analytics fit into your business intelligence strategy? While at Ignite in Atlanta, Richard sat down with Jen Stirrup to discuss her exp...

Episode 500!

26 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Holy smokes, 500 episodes! Richard brings in Carl Franklin to do hosting duties while guest stars on his own show - taking a look at the changes to th...

Mobile Application Management Policies with Mike Crowley

24 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How granular can mobile application management be? Richard talks to Mike Crowley about the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite, and it's ability to al...

Azure App Service with Jeremy Thake

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What can App Service do for you? While at Ignite in Atlanta, Richard sat down with Jeremy Thake to talk about his new role with the Azure team, workin...

Fighting Dark IT with Mattias Karlsson

17 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is your IT group in the dark? Richard chats with Mattias Karlsson about his experiences as a consultant coming into companies where IT really doesn't ...

Small Business Server and Windows 10 with Susan Bradley

12 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do Small Business Server and Windows 10 get along? Richard chats with Susan Bradley about her experiences continuing to support Small Business Ser...

IPv6 Comes to the Cloud with Ed Horley

10 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

IPv6 continues to gain traction! Richard talks to Ed Horley about the progress of IPv6, including the recent announcement by Microsoft at the Ignite c...

Cloud PBX with Avrohom Gottheil

05 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to move your PBX to the cloud? Richard chats with Avrohom Gottheil about this fundamental shift in telephony. Once upon a time there were analog...

Azure Stack with Jeffrey Snover

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Have you heard about Azure Stack? While at Ignite in Atlanta, Richard sat down with Jeffrey Snover to discuss the Azure Stack announcements. Azure Sta...

Hyperconvergence using Simplivity with Alan Sugano

28 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

If you could make storage super fast, how much better would things be? Richard chats with Alan Sugano about his discovery of Simplivity, a card added ...

Azure Site Recovery with Nicolas Blank

21 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What can Azure Site Recovery do for you? Richard chats with Nicolas Blank about his experiences backing up on-premise systems with Azure Site Recovery...

Migrating to Exchange 2016 with Paul Cunningham

14 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to move to Exchange 2016? Richard chats with Paul Cunningham about the latest version of Exchange and what it takes to move up to it. The older ...

VMWare and PowerShell with Chris Wahl

07 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

VMWare and PowerShell together? Of course! Regardless of the recent excitement around PowerShell going open source, third party companies have been su...

The Science of DevOps with Nicole Forsgren

31 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is there a science to DevOps? Richard talks to Dr. Nicole Forsgren, who has a PhD in Information Management about her work with the DevOps Research an...

VM and Cloud Management with Jon Mittelhauser

24 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does the cloud shape your infrastructure? Richard talks with web pioneer and CEO Jon Mittelhauser about the on-going evolution of infrastructure a...

Building a Blameless Post-Mortem Culture with Jason Hand

17 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build a blameless post-mortem culture? And should you? Richard chats with Jason Hand from VictorOps about the blameless culture, which is a...

Windows 10 Redstone Update with Stephen Rose

10 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Here comes the Redstone update for Windows 10! Richard chats with Stephen Rose about the big one year update for Windows 10. Don't call it a service p...

Testing Infrastructure with Steven Murawski

03 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Infrastructure deserves tests too! While at ChefConf in Austin, Richard sat down with Steven Murawski to talk about Test Kitchen. Test Kitchen allows ...

Application Automation using Habitat with Jessica DeVita

27 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to have application automation? While at ChefConf in Austin, Richard sat down with Jessica DeVita to talk about Habitat, an open sou...

Mobile Application Management with Simon May

20 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage the security of documents around individual applications on a mobile device? Richard talks to Simon May about Microsoft InTune Mobil...

Hyper-V in Server 2016 with Aidan Finn

13 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A whole other area of Windows Server 2016 to dive into - Hyper-V! Richard chats with Aidan Finn about the coming features for Hyper-V in Server 2016, ...

Isolated User Mode in Windows 10 with Mark Minasi

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does Windows 10 protect your secrets? Richard chats with Mark Minasi about the endless evolution of protecting user information in Windows. What, ...

Windows Server 2016 Features Inspired by Azure with John Savill

29 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Windows Server 2016 is coming soon - but is it all about on-premise, or all about the cloud? Richard talks to John Savill about his favorite features ...

Moving Public Folders to the Cloud with Tony Redmond

22 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Public Folders are a plague! Richard chats with Tony Redmond about the challenges of decades of public folders in Exchange accumulating the data cruft...

Group Policy is Not Dead with Jeremy Moskowitz

15 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is Group Policy dead? Jeremy Moskowitz says no! And he's not alone. Richard chats with Jeremy about the confusion in the marketplace these days around...

Getting into Machine Learning with Buck Woody

08 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is it time to jump into machine learning? Richard talks to Buck Woody about how he has focused his multi-decade career at the leading edge of using da...

Hyperconverged Storage using Windows Server 2016 with Ned Pyle

01 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Hyperconverged storage is coming to Windows Server 2016! Richard chats with Ned Pyle about his work building parts of the Storage Services in Server 2...

SQL Q and A at SQLIntersection Spring 2016

25 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Time for another SQL Q and A! Richard moderates an hour long discussion at SQLintersection in Orlando with panelists Paul Randal, Kim Tripp and Brent ...

Hacking a Country with Troy Hunt

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So what happens when a country gets hacked? Richard talks to Troy Hunt about the significance of the attacks on Turkey and the Philippines, where enti...

Going Deep on Operations Management Suite with Jeremy Winter

11 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Instrumentation and Automation across clouds and on-premise? Yes! Richard chats with Jeremy Winter about his work bringing Microsoft Operations Manage...

Just Enough Admin and Windows Server 2016 with Jeffrey Snover

04 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How much administration do you need? Richard chats with Tech Fellow and Father-of-PowerShell Jeffrey Snover about Just Enough Administration (JEA). Th...

Chef Compliance with Jessica DeVita

27 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know your systems are compliant with security and industry standards like CIS, SOX, HIIPA, PCI and so on? Chef evangelist Jessica DeVita ta...

The Infrastructure Release Pipeline with Steve Murawski and Michael Greene

20 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage your infrastructure like its code? Enter the release pipeline! Richard chats with Steven Murawski and Michael Greene about their rec...

Ransomware Resistance with Paula Januskiewicz

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ransomware is in the news, but do you know what to do about it? Richard talks to Paula Januskiewicz about how ransomware works and what you can do to ...

DevOps in 2015 with Gene Kim

06 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's the state of DevOps coming into 2016? Richard chats with Gene Kim, one of the godfathers of the DevOps movement, about what he's seen over the ...

SQL Server 2016 with Brent Ozar

30 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What is coming in SQL Server 2016? Richard chats with Brent Ozar about his thoughts on the upcoming version of SQL Server. The conversation digs into ...

Cloud for ISPs with Barnaby Jeans

23 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Does the cloud represent the end of the world for ISPs? Hardly, according to Barnaby Jeans. Barnaby and Richard chat about how service providing is st...

ICU and PAL Tools with Clint Huffman

16 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you diagnose performance problems in Windows? Richard chats with Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer Clint Huffman about the tooling he bui...

Cloud Security with Orin Thomas

09 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is the cloud really secure? Richard chats with Orin Thomas about his work developing a doctoral thesis on cloud security. Recognizing that security at...

Managing Linux Virtual Machines with Tim Warner

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you host Linux in the cloud? Richard talks to Tim Warner about his experience managing Linux instances in Azure. According to Microsoft, about ...

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud with Jennelle Crothers

24 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What are your disaster recovery plans? Richard chats with Jennelle Crothers about Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery products - two different types ...

Update Management using IBM BigFix with Andrew Laurence

17 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How are you managing desktop updates? Richard chats with Andrew Laurence about his work using IBM BigFix to manage updates for Windows and OSX desktop...

Digital Resilience with Alan Sharp-Paul

10 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How can you increase the digital resilience of your organization's systems? Richard chats with Alan Sharp-Paul about exactly what it means to be resil...

Cloud PBX with Tom Arbuthnot

03 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to put your PBX in the cloud? Richard chats with Tom Arbuthnot about the Cloud PBX offering as part of Office 365 Skype for Business. Skype for ...

Microsoft Operations Management Suite with Cameron Fuller

27 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Have you looked at Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)? Richard chats with Cameron Fuller about OMS and its relationship with System Center Op...

Patching Windows Clusters with Luke Swords

20 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Patching is hard, but patching clusters is worse! Richard chats with Luke Sword about the challenges of getting patches done right when systems are mi...

Chef, PowerShell and DSC with Steven Murawski

13 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Are you using Chef for your configuration management? Richard chats with Steven Murawski about the on-going open source project that is Chef. Steven t...

Migrating from SAN to Cloud with Kevin Evans

06 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When should move your storage to the cloud? Richard chats with Kevin Evans about migrating off of an on-premise SAN onto Azure's StorSimple hybrid clo...

Windows as a Service with Mark Minasi

30 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How is Windows 10 working out for you? To finish 2015, Richard chats with Mark Minasi about the on-going changes to Windows that should result in this...

An IT Christmas with Rick Claus and Joey Snow

23 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

With last names like Claus and Snow, what else could we talk about but Christmas gifts? Richard chats with Patch and Switch, aka Joey Snow and Rick Cl...

SharePoint 2016 with Todd Klindt

16 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for SharePoint 2016? Richard chats with Todd Klindt about what's coming in SharePoint 2016, comparing the differences in on-premise and Office 3...

Microsoft Azure Backup Services with Aidan Finn

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Can you use the cloud as backup? Richard chats with Aidan Finn about Microsoft Azure Backup and Site Recovery services. The conversation starts out ta...

Learning from Data Breaches with Troy Hunt

02 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Data breaches are a fact of life - how can you resist them, and when that fails, deal with them effectively? Richard talks to Troy Hunt about his expe...

Troubleshooting Windows 10 with Mike Halsey

25 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So what can go wrong with Windows 10 and what do you do about it? Richard chats with Mike Halsey about his experiences troubleshooting Windows 10. Mik...

SQL Q and A at SQLIntersection Fall 2015

18 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Time for another SQL Q and A! Richard moderates discussion between Kim Tripp, Paul Randal and Brent Ozar with the audience of SQLIntersection in Las V...

Upgrading to Exchange 2016 with Tony Redmond

11 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Where is Exchange 2016 on your radar? Richard chats with Tony Redmond about the current history of Exchange, from 2003 onward. Tony talks about the gr...

Retrofitting Data Security with Luke Babarinde

04 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Nobody's data security is perfect, but do you know the security state of your data? Richard chats with Luke Babarinde about his work helping companies...

Getting Ready for Nano Server with Jason Helmick

28 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Are you thinking about Microsoft Nano Server yet? Richard chats with Jason Helmick about what we can do today to get ready for Nano Server. As announc...

vSphere and Hyper-V with Greg Shields

21 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Does it matter what virtualization technology you use? Richard chats with Greg Shields, one of the few folks out there with certifications in Microsof...

Thinking Through Security Policy with Dana Epp

14 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

What does your security plan look like? Richard chats with Dana Epp about the ever increasing attack surface of our organizations and the ongoing batt...

Understanding How Apps are Used with Andreas Grabner

07 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

There are lots of reasons to instrument your apps in production - but one of the most powerful is to understand how your users actually use your apps....

No More IPv4 with Ed Horley

30 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Well, that's it - ARIN is out of IPv4 addresses. Richard chats with Ed Horley who has been warning of this day for a number of years now. So what does...

Windows 10 Recap with Paul Thurrott

23 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Windows 10 has shipped - but has it really, really shipped? Richard chats with Paul Thurrott about his take on Microsoft's on-going efforts to get the...

Docker and Server 2016 with Taylor Brown

16 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Docker is coming to Windows and it's going to be huge! Richard chats with Taylor Brown of the Windows Core Virtualization team about the new Windows S...

Unified Remote Access with Richard Hicks

09 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So where is remote access going these days? Richard talks to Richard Hicks about Microsoft DirectAccess and more. Recognizing that VPNs don't make peo...

Managing Office 365 Apps with Jeremy Thake

02 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Have you looked at everything available in an Office 365 subscription? It's easy to stop at Exchange or SharePoint online, but what about the services...

Surface Power Management with Joao Botto

26 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So how interesting can power management be? More than you might believe! Richard chats with Microsoft PM Joao Botto about how Surface has taken power ...

Managing Azure using Powershell with Brian Lewis

19 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to manage Azure from the command line? While at That Conference in Wisconsin Dells, Richard chatted with Brian Lewis about the PowerShell suppor...

Building a Data Warehouse on Azure with Michael Blumenthal

12 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build a data warehouse in Azure? While at That Conference in Wisconsin Dells, Richard sat down with Michael Blumenthal to talk through a pa...