RunAs Radio

Desired State Configuration V2 with Don Jones

05 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for a new version of Desired State Configuration (DSC)? Richard chats with Don Jones about the second version of DSC, although it's bundled as p...

Just Enough Administration with Mark Minasi

29 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How do you provide granular administrative privileges to junior administrators? Richard talks to Mark Minasi about the idea of Just Enough Administrat...

ITIL in the Cloud with Carroll Moon

22 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Is ITIL still relevant in a cloud-centric world? Carroll Moon says yes! Richard talks to Carroll about his work building out the service management in...

Exchange Online Protection with Peter Schmidt

15 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How do you filter spam and malware for your mail server? Richard chats with Peter Schmidt about Exchange Online Protection (EOP). Remember Forefront? ...

Getting Ready for Win 10 with Mark Minasi

08 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ready for Windows 10? Richard chats with Mark Minasi about the impending release of Windows 10. Mark talks about the new features of Windows 1...

Using DSC on SharePoint with Patrick Curran

01 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Desired State Configuration and SQL Server? Richard talks to Patrick Curran about using DSC for more than just setting up a web farm. In fact, Patrick...

Bringing Yammer to your Organization with Chris Poteet

24 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Does your organization need Yammer? Richard talks to Chris Poteet about the whys and hows of Yammer. The conversation starts out on the why of Yammer ...

Microsoft's SharePoint Move to the Cloud with Jared Shockley

17 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How does Microsoft use SharePoint? Richard chats with MS IT SharePoint Server owner Jared Shockley about how Microsoft uses SharePoint internally. As ...

An Update on Updating Windows with Robert Smith

10 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

An update on Windows update? Richard talks to PFE Robert Smith about the announcements coming out of build around how Windows will be updated going fo...

SQL Panel from SQL Intersection Spring 2015

03 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

What burning questions do you have about SQL Server? Richard moderates a panel discussion with Paul Randal, Kim Tripp and Brent Ozar and a host of oth...

PAL Update and More with Clint Huffman

27 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

PAL is growing up! After a few months of rest from publishing his book Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide, Richard talks to creator Clint Huffma...

Azure RMS with Morgan Simonsen

20 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Rights Management in the Cloud? Richard talks to Morgan Simonsen about Azure Rights Management. Azure RMS works with Office 2010-13 and a variety of o...

Ignite Recap with Stephen Rose

13 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So what happened at Ignite? Stephen Rose chats with Richard about the keynotes, sessions and announcements at Ignite. One of the biggest shows Microso...

Modern Public Folders with Peter Schmidt

06 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Are Public Folders evil? Peter Schmidt says no! Richard chats with Peter about Modern Public Folders that come with Exchange 2013. Treated more like r...

Tuning SQL Server Stored Procedures with Kim Tripp

29 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How do you tune your stored procedures? While visiting Kim Tripp at her home, Richard chats with her about her approach to turning stored procedures. ...

Policy-Based SQL Server Management with Boris Hristov

22 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage your SQL Servers? Richard talks to Boris Hristov about using Policy-Based Management tools in SQL Server. These tools have been in t...

Streaming Large Scale Live Events with Ian Philpot

15 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So what does it take to live stream the largest sporting events in the world? Richard chats with Ian Philpot, Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, abo...

Chef Update with Steven Murawski

08 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking at Chef for deploying your infrastructure yet? Steven Murawski is back to talk about the latest development in Chef, including his rol...

Azure Stream Analytics with Scott Klein

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How fast can you analyze incoming data? Richard talks to Scott Klein about Azure Stream Analytics. Scott discusses how stream analytics is different f...

Virtualizing Everything on Azure using RemoteApp with Aidan Finn

25 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Virtualization at Microsoft continues to evolve! Richard chats with Aidan Finn about the on-going evolution of virtualization and the options availabl...

How the Cloud Evolved Exchange with Tony Redmond

18 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So how has the Cloud changed Exchange? And how will those changes affect you? Richard talks to Tony Redmond about the on-going evolution of Exchange, ...

IPv6 in 2014 with Ed Horley

11 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

So how is IPv6 doing, anyway? Ed Horley knows! Richard chats with Ed about IPv6 adoption. And Ed delivers - turns out there's a lot more going on in t...

Free Diagnostics Tools with Mike O'Neill

04 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Mike O'Neill is back with some free tools you need to know about! Richard chats with Mike about his roster of go-to tools for a Microsoft Premier Fiel...

Lessons from a Pen Testers with Paula Januszkiewicz

25 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Paula is back - with stories of hacking her customer's systems! Richard talks to Paula Januszkiewicz about her work as a penetration tester and what i...

PowerShell Past and Future with Lee Holmes

18 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Where did PowerShell come from and where is it going? Richard chats with Principle Software Engineer Lee Holmes about his experiences building PowerSh...

Threat Modeling with Robert Hurlbut

11 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How do you look at the potential security threats in your organization? Richard talks to Robert Hurlbut about threat modeling. Robert talks out talkin...

DevOps in 2015 with Gene Kim

04 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Where is your DevOps practice at? Richard catches up with Gene Kim, the godfather of DevOps, to recap 2014 and talk about what DevOps in 2015 is going...

Securing Your Data with Simon Sabin

28 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How secure is your data? Richard talks to Simon Sabin about securing your databases and making sure you know they're actually secure. The conversation...

Web Performance with Scott Forsyth

21 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Does web performance just mean moving to the cloud today? Richard talks with Scott Forsyth about a variety of web performance strategies. Scott explai...

The End of Windows 2003 with Eric Mills

14 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for the end of Server 2003? Richard chats with Eric Mills about the end of extended support for Windows Server 2003 - it had to come sooner or l...

Getting Started Using Azure with Rick Claus

07 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Thinking about getting into Azure? Now is a great time! Rick Claus talks to Richard about how Azure continues to evolve making more entry points at lo...

Sony, North Korea and Cyberwarfare with Troy Hunt

31 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

It's New Years Eve, time to get scared! Troy Hunt is back and talking about the evolving story that is the Sony hack involving North Korea. The show w...

It's Show 400!

24 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Holy cow, it's show 400! How did this happen? Richard invites his friends Paul Randal and Kim Tripp to have a little celebration, talk about what it t...

AppX and AppV with Steve Thomas

17 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Steve Thomas about AppV and AppX. AppV is short for Application Virtualization, a huge growth area of virtualization, providing tools...

Powershell Everywhere with Sean Kearney

10 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Sean Kearney about his work with PowerShell, including being one of the honorary Scripting Guys - including the fellow who makes the ...

SQL Q and A at SQL Intersection

03 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

While at the SQLIntersection conference in Las Vegas, Richard hosted a panel discussion of amazing SQL Server rockstars including Paul Randal, Kim Tri...

The Future of SDN with Tom Hollingsworth

26 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Tom Hollingsworth about the Software Defined Network (SDN) landscape and how it's evolving into a more open set of standards that i...

End-to-End Troubleshooting SQL Server with Kevin Kline

19 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

How do you troubleshoot SQL problems? Kevin Kline talks to Richard about his process for diagnosing SQL Server, starting with Windows and SQL Server e...

Search in SharePoint with Eric Shupps

12 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Eric Shupps about search in SharePoint. The conversation starts with a state of the union conversation about SharePoint on-premise ...

Security Global Policy with Alan Burchill

05 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Alan Burchill about the security aspects of Group Policy Preferences - good and bad! Alan reminds us all about where Group Policy Pre...

High-Availability Exchange 2013 with Paul Cunningham

29 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Paul Cunningham about configuring high-availability features in Exchange 2013. The conversation starts out talking a bit about how Ex...

Running a Private Cloud with Alan Sugano

22 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Alan Sugano about his experience building out a private cloud for his customers. The conversation starts out focused on why you would...

Small Business Server in a Cloudy World with Susan Bradley

15 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

So where did Small Business Server go? Susan Bradley knows! After entirely too long, Richard chats with Susan Bradley about the state of affairs for S...

Windows 10 with Mark Minasi

08 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Here comes Windows 10! Richard chats with Mark Minasi about the technical preview of Windows 10, but first Mark reels off some humorous reasons why th...

Building New SQL Server Hardware with Brent Ozar

01 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Brent Ozar about the amazing new hardware coming out for SQL Server. Yeah, it's time to geek out on hardware. Brent discusses some ...

Config Mgr 2012 R2 and MDT 2013 with Johan Arwidmark

24 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with deployment master and control freak Johan Arwidmark about the latest on Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and the Microsoft Deployment ...

Software Defined Storage with Aidan Finn

17 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Aidan Finn about Software Defined Storage. Picking up he left off in April talking about Microsoft's Scale-Out File Server, the whole...

Azure Active Directory with Venkat and David

10 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Venkat Kalyanasundaram and David Apolinar about Azure Active Directory. The conversation starts out with a focus on the whole idea ...

Desired State Configuration Update with Jeffrey Snover

03 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard catches up with Jeffrey Snover, father of PowerShell and one of the moving forces behind Desired State Configuration (DSC). After just over a ...

Security Insanity with Troy Hunt

27 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Troy Hunt about some of the crazy things being said in the same of security these days. Troy's first story involves a UK cell phone...

Defining DevOps with Alan Sharp-Paul

20 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Alan Sharp-Paul about the challenges of building a DevOps culture in your organization. Alan talks about the problem just defining De...

Microsoft Azure Management Libraries with Scott Klein

13 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft Evangelist Scott Klein about the Microsoft Azure Management Libraries (MAML). MAML wraps up the REST calls to Azure to al...

An IT Pro Guide to DevOps with David Tesar

06 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with David Tesar about DevOps for the Microsoft-oriented IT Pro. DevOps has been a big thing in the Linux/Open Source community for the ...

Windows Performance Analysis with Clint Huffman

30 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Clint Huffman about his book the Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide. Clint is also the geniu...

The Next Windows with Stephen Rose

23 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Stephen Rose about how Windows has continued evolving with some thoughts on what future versions might look like. Windows 8 brought...

Chef on Windows with Steven Murawski

16 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steven Murawski on the day he is leaving Stack Exchange to join the Chef team as a Community Manager. So naturally, the conversatio...

UAC on Windows Client with Jeff Stokes

09 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Jeff Stokes about the role of User Access Control (UAC) in making Windows client machines safer. Safer? Actually, the conversation st...

User Experience Virtualization with Steve Thomas

02 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steve Thomas about Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V). The conversation starts out with a focus on Application and Des...

Reaping the Benefits of XP Migration with Chris Jackson

25 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Chris Jackson about his experiences working with large organizations migrating off of XP. Once you've done the hard work of taking ...

Multifactor Authentication with Dana Epp

18 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Dana Epp about multi-factor authentication. The conversation starts out with some definition around multi-factor authentication - s...

Security Recap with Paula Januszkiewicz

11 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

While at Tech Ed US in Houston, Richard chatted with Paula Januszkiewicz about the current state of system security. Paula talks about a new wave of e...

ADFS and oAuth2 with John Craddock

04 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

While at Tech Ed 2014, Richard chat with John Craddock about the latest incarnation of Active Directory Federation Services - don't call it version th...

Group Policy Pak with Jeremy Moskowitz

28 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

While at Tech Ed 2014 in Houston, Richard chats with Jeremy Moskowitz about group policy in Windows 8. Jeremy talks about his session at Tech Ed calle...

SQL Hidden Gems Open Q and A at SQL Intersection Orlando 2014!

21 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

It's the Questions and Answers from SQL Intersection in Orlando! Richard moderates a panel of the usual suspects: Kim Tripp, Paul Randal, Brent Ozar a...

Providing Self-Service using Azure Pack with Damian Flynn

14 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Damian Flynn about Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server and Service Management Automation. Big confusing names for a really simple c...

EHLO with Mike O'Neill

07 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft PFE Mike O'Neill about his work with customers using large scale Exchange sites. Mike is one of the contributors to You h...

SQL 2014 Panel with the SQL Team at SQL Intersection

30 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded in front of a live audience at SQL Intersection in Orlando, Florida, this panel discussion focuses on the new features in SQL 2014. The panel...

Heartbleed with Troy Hunt

23 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Hot off of last week's news about Heartbleed, Richard talks to Troy Hunt about the size and scope of the problem. Heartbleed is the cool name (and log...

Scale-Out File Server for Hyper-V with Aidan Finn

16 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Aidan Finn about the Scale-Out File Server features of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Aidan digs into a bunch of the improvemen...

Resiliency with Michael Nygard

09 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Michael Nygard about the concept of resilience in the IT world. Michael starts out the conversation talking about what resilience r...

Gradual DevOps with Steve Evans

02 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Evans makes a return visit to the show to talk a little DevOps. The conversation starts out with the work he's currently doing with a bio-tech c...

SQL Server Service Packs with Aaron Bertrand

26 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with fellow Canadian Aaron Bertrand about his work with SQL Server. Aaron starts out the conversation with a mention around SQL Server 2...

Exchange 2013 Update with Tony Redmond

19 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard catches up with Tony Redmond on all things Exchange. The conversation starts out talking about the fact that Exchange 2013 has a service pack,...

Protecting PCs with EMET with Kurt Falde

12 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft PFE Kurt Falde about the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). It might be a weak name, but it's an amazing set ...

Sharepoint in the Cloud with Jeremy Thake

05 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Jeremy Thake about the move of Sharepoint into the Cloud. The conversation starts off with a bit of a history lesson and how Sharepoi...

Talking DevOps with Gene Kim

26 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Gene Kim about his experiences in DevOps - the research he's done on high performing IT teams, and how that knowledge has evolved int...

The End of XP with Mark Minasi

19 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Back with Minasi! Richard chats with Mark Minasi about the end of XP... coming in April of 2014! The discussion rapidly turns to a history lesson abou...

Building Boxstarter with Matt Wrock

12 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Matt Wrock about the power of boxstarter.org for building and configuring PCs quickly. The conversation starts out talking about wh...

Learning About Learning with Kim Tripp

05 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

So how do you learn? Richard talks to Kim Tripp about technology learning. The conversation starts out with responsibility for learning - what is the ...

Distributed Replay in SQL Server 2012 with Boris Hristov

29 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Boris Hristov about Distributed Transaction Replay in SQL Server 2012. New to SQL Server 2012, Distributed Replay uses a SQL Profiler...

Practical IPv6 with Ed Horley

22 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Ed Horley about his new book, Practical IPv6 for Windows Administrators. The conversation starts out with the evolution of IPv6 fro...

Talking DevOps with Hal Rottenberg

15 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a podcast host talks to another podcast host? You get confused about who is interviewing who. Hal Rottenberg from the PowerScripting...

Surface in the Enterprise with Chris Evans

08 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with PFE Chris Evans about using Surface devices in the enterprise. After a quick recap of the various Surface models, the hard conversa...

Stephen Rose rings in the New Year for IT!

01 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year! Richard chats with Stephen Rose about the crazy things that went on at Microsoft in 2013 and some thoughts about the potential of 2014...

People-Centric IT with Martin Booth

25 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Martin Booth from Microsoft about their vision of the People-Centric IT. A cornerstone of this vision is unified device management, c...

Implementing Desired State Configuration with Steven Murawski

18 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steven Murawski about implementing Microsoft's Desired State Configuration (DSC) in the Stack Exchange infrastructure. DSC is part ...

Software Defined Networking on VMWare with Scott Lowe

11 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Scott Lowe about VMWare's NSX product, which provides network virtualization to the vSphere world. NSX came from VMWare's acquisition...

Getting Intune with Dana Epp

04 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chat with Dana Epp about the latest on Microsoft Intune. Dana digs into the latest in Intune, which is it's second version, both for small org...

SQL Server 2014 with Kevin Kline

27 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Kevin Kline about what's coming in SQL Server 2014. Yes, the database continues to evolve and Kevin digs into many of the new feature...

Post-Deployment Sharepoint with Eric Shupps

20 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevIntersection in Las Vegas, Richard chatted with Eric Shupps about his experiences dealing with Sharepoint after the deployment. Although t...

Windows 8.1 Recap with Mark Minasi

13 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevIntersection in Las Vegas, Richard sat down with Mark Minasi to talk about Windows 8.1. And some of the show is even about Windows 8.1! Ma...

SQL Server Q and A at SQLIntersection

06 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at SQLIntersection in Las Vegas, Richard moderates a panel of Kim Tripp, Paul Randal, Brent Ozar and Jonathan Kehayias. The panel takes question...

Internal IPv6 Networks with Venkat Kalyanasundaram

30 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Venkat Kalyanasundaram about using IPv6 in your internal networks. Since Vista, IPv6 has been on by default on all versions of Window...

SDN and IPv6 Together with Tom Hollingsworth

23 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Tom Hollingsworth about how Software Defined Networking (SDN) and IPv6 can work together. The conversation starts out talking about h...

Memory Management with Clint Huffman

16 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Clint Huffman about memory management in Windows. But first a quick conversation about the state of affairs these days, including C...

The Accidental DBA with Erin Stellato

09 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Erin Stellato about being an accidental DBA. What's an accidental DBA? It's the guy who was standing closest to the SQL Server when...

Next Generation Storage with Stephen Foskett

02 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Stephen Foskett about where storage is at these days. The conversation spans far and wide, talking about how Microsoft's latest pro...

BYOD and PKI with Brian Komar

25 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Brian Komar about the issues around Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Brian starts out talki...

Lync 2013 Deployment Success with Justin Morris

18 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Justin Morris about his experiences deploying Lync 2013 to customers. Lync 2013 has been out for a little less than a year and offe...

Identity Security with David Jones

11 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with David Jones about identity security. The conversation starts out talking about the wonders of Single Sign On, followed by the horro...