RunAs Radio

System Center Orchestrator 2012 with Mickey Gousset

04 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Mickey Gousset about System Center Orchestrator 2012. Mickey talks about the role orchestrator plays interacting between other Syst...

Active Directory in Server 2012 R2 with Brian Desmond

28 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Brian Desmond about some of the new features coming to Active Directory in Server 2012 R2. The conversation starts off talking about ...

Hyper-V vs. vSphere with Mitch Garvis

21 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Mitch Garvis about his experiences comparing vSphere and Hyper-V. Which one is better? Mitch gets right to the point - they're both i...

All SharePoint 2013 Things Considered with Robert Bogue

14 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Robert Bogue about the current state of SharePoint 2013. As Robert states, there still isn't a shrink-wrap version of SharePoint 20...

Desired State Configuration with Jeffrey Snover

07 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Jeffrey Snover about Desired State Configuration (DSC). DSC is part of the Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, although it is also availa...

Getting Up to Speed with IIS8 and 8.5 with Scott Forsyth

31 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Scott Forsyth about IIS 8 and 8.5. IIS 8 shipped with Server 2012, and IIS 8.5 with Server 2012 R2 (which at publication was still ...

Building the Culture of DevOps with Steven Murawski

24 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steven Murawski about building a DevOps culture at your organization. The conversation talks about the fundamentals of DevOps, digg...

Software Defined Networks and Hyper-V with Richard Hicks

17 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard brings Richard Hicks back to talk about Software Defined Networks (SDN). Windows Server 2012 brings many new capabilities to the role, but Hyp...

Active Directory Disaster Recovery with Konstantinos Theos

10 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the studio at last, Richard talks to Konstantinos Theos about disaster recovery strategies for Active Directory. Backup and restore, test envi...

Securing Your PC with Paula Januszkiewicz

03 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While hanging at TechEd US in New Orleans, Richard chatted with Paula Januszkiewicz about her talks and experience working the 'black hat' side of sec...

Windows 8.1 Update by Stephen Rose

26 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at TechEd US in New Orleans, Richard sat down with Stephen Rose to talk about the new features in Windows 8.1. Don't call it a service pack! Ste...

SharePoint Document Management Described by Ed Musters

19 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevTeach in Toronto, Richard sat down with Ed Musters to talk about document management in SharePoint. The conversation starts out exploring ...

The Next SQL Server and More with Richard Baumet

12 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevTeach, Richard chatted with Richard Baumet about his experiences at the 2012 PASS conference, including the sneak peeks at the upcoming ve...

Why Data Warehousing Projects Fail with Craig Utley

05 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevTeach in Toronto, Richard talks to Craig Utley about his experiences building business intelligence systems. The discussion starts out wit...

Steve Evans Virtualizes Networks with Hyper-V

29 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at TechDays in San Francisco, Richard sat down with Steve Evans to talk about the new virtual networking features in Server 2012 Hyper-V. The co...

Women in IT Panel Discussion at TechDays SF

22 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at TechDays SF, Richard moderated a panel on Women in IT. The panelists include Jennelle Crothers, Jessica DeVita, Christa Anderson and CA Calla...

Mark Minasi Does Science in San Fran

15 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While in San Francisco at TechDays, Richard runs into Mark and ends up with a recording about their favorite science topics. Not exactly an IT show, b...

Dana Epp Uses the Cloud for Disaster Recovery

08 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Dana Epp about using cloud technology for disaster recovery. Dana digs into Microsoft Azure first, talking about how the new Azure St...

Johan Arwidmark Does Deployment the Right Way

01 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Johan Arwidmark about his experiences doing deployment with Windows, using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Configuration Manager and mo...

Aidan Finn Does Hyper-V on Windows 8

24 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Aidan Finn about Windows 8 Hyper-V Client. With Windows 8, Microsoft brings Hyper-V support to the desktop. Aidan discusses a varie...

Ed Horley Builds Private Clouds

17 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Ed Horley about something other than IPv6 - building private cloud infrastructure. Ed talks about the innovations happening in the ...

Brent Ozar Updates Us On SQL Server 2012

10 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Brent Ozar about his experiences deploying SQL Server 2012. The conversation digs into the challenges of running SQL 2012 on Window...

Jeff Stokes Checks PC Performance with the ADK

03 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to PFE Jeff Stokes about the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). The ADK is a web installer that pulls together a bunch of fr...

Nibin PM Virtualizes Domain Controllers

27 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chat with PFE Nibin PM from Microsoft Gulf in Kuwait about his work deploying Active Directory domain controllers in virtualized environments....

Heath Graves Talks Microsoft Operations Framework

20 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Heath Graves about the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF). MOF is Microsoft's guidance document fo...

Robert Cain Gets Us Started with Business Intelligence

13 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Robert Cain about getting started with business intelligence. The conversation starts out talking about the role of SQL Server, Analy...

Tony Redmond Deploys Exchange 2013

06 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

While at the MVP Summit, Richard chats with Tony Redmond about his experiences with Exchange 2013 so far. Exchange 2013 shipped in October of 2012, bu...

Robert Smith Optimize for VDI

27 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Robert Smith about his experiences tuning Windows to operate with Virtualized Desktops. Robert starts out with dealing with boot ti...

Dana Epp Hates Passwords

20 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Dana Epp about his on-going battles with password security. The conversation digs into various security issues, including public WiFi...

Chris Conte Deploys Sharepoint in the Military

13 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Chris Conte about his experiences deploying SharePoint into the military. Chris talks about his early days in the Navy as a yeoman, f...

Benny Lakunishok Tests Storage Performance in Exchange 2010

06 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Benny Lakunishok about storage performance in Exchange 2010. The new storage systems in Exchange 2010 substantially changed the way...

Steven Murawski Explores the StackExchange Infrastructure

30 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steven Murawski about his work at StackExchange. The conversation starts out digging into how StackExchange avoided hurricane Sandy...

Show 300 with Mark Minasi

23 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Hey, it's show 300! For the 300th show, Richard chats with Mark Minasi about a variety of topics, including the good and bad of Windows 8. And somehow...

Alan Burchill Manages Group Policy Objects in Server 2012!

16 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Alan Burchill about some of the improvements to Group Policy in Server 2012. The conversation starts out with the new reporting featu...

Bruce Adamczak Makes DHCP Highly Available in Server 2012!

09 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Microsoft PFE Bruce Adamczak about the new high availability features for DHCP in Server 2012. The conversation digs into the problem...

Dan Rosanova Does Hadoop on Azure!

02 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

For the first show on 2013, Richard chats with Dan Rosanova about big data in the Microsoft space. While the conversation starts out speaking about bi...

Tom Canter Builds Health Care Technology!

26 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on the US Thanksgiving break of the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard talked to Tom Canter about the changes in healthcare...

Aydin Aslaner Deploys IPv6!

19 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Aydin Aslaner about his work deploying IPv6 in the mideast and Europe. Aydin talks about how the Turkish government is mandating exte...

Kamal Abburi Does Risk Assessment on Exchange!

12 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on the US Thanksgiving break of the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard talked with Kamal Abburi about risk assessments arou...

Stephen Rose Puts Surface in the Enterprise!

05 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

During the US Thanksgiving break of the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Road Trip, Richard chatted with Stephen Rose about the new generation of Windows...

Jeremy Moskowitz Looks at Group Policy in Windows 8!

28 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

During the US Thanksgiving break of the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard chatted with Jeremy Moskowitz about the new group poli...

Steve Evans Uses Hyper-V in Production!

21 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on the break week of the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard talked to Steve Evans about his experiences with Hyper-V in the...

Clint Huffman Digs into the Internals of Server 2012!

14 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on a break from the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard talked to Clint Huffman about some of the internal changes to Server...

Jeff Stokes Optimizes VDI!

07 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

During a break on the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard talks to Jeff Stokes about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Jeff di...

Steven Murawski Manages Web Farms!

31 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

During a break on the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard chats with Steven Murawski about web farm management in the Microsoft sp...

Mark Minasi Uses Storage Services in Server 2012!

24 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Road Trip Richard chatted with Mark Minasi about some of the new features in Server 2012 - and ended up foc...

Robert Bogue Makes Ten Mistakes with Sharepoint!

17 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

While on the .NET Rocks Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Richard sat down with Robert Bogue to talk about ten of the most common mistakes made wit...

Rob Gillen Secures WiFi!

10 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Rob Gillen about the myths and realities around WiFi security. Rob talks about how the release of passwords in the wild has weakene...

Mario Hewardt Debugs Windows!

03 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Mario Hewardt about what IT folks need to know about debugging Windows. Yes, that's right - IT folks should be able to debug Window...

Joe Sack Tunes Queries in SQL Server!

26 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with former PFE Joe Sack about his work helping queries go faster in SQL Server. Joe talks about his techniques for figuring out what to...

Mark Russinovich on Trustworthy Computing and Trojan Horse!

19 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Russinovich returns to the show to talk about his new book Trojan Horse and discuss the world of cyberwarfare and malware in general. After scari...

Glenn Berry Saves Money on SQL Server Hardware!

12 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Glenn Berry about SQL Server hardware. Microsoft changed the licensing of SQL Server in 2012 to per-core rather than per-socket, su...

Michael Steineke Clusters Windows 2012!

05 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Michael Steineke about the new clustering features of Windows 2012. Michael starts with the latest version of Network Load Balancing ...

Stephen Rose Deploys Windows 8 in the Enterprise!

29 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft's Stephen Rose about Windows 8 in the enterprise. Does it make sense? Stephen talks about the specific features available...

Kamal Abburi Implements Hybrid Office 365!

22 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Kamal Abburi about his experiences putting together hybrid implementations of Exchange and Office ...

Victor Mushkatin Uses System Center 2012 OpsMan to Instrument Applications!

15 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Victor Mushkatin from the System Center team at Microsoft about Operations Manager 2012. Victor is the former CTO of AVICode, which w...

Justin Morris Talks Lync 2013!

08 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Justin Morris about the recently announced Lync 2013 Preview. The preview is available for download now, but the product itself is ...

Jeffrey Snover Is Serious About DevOps!

01 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Jeffrey Snover about DevOps at Microsoft. The concept of DevOps goes back to a talk that John Allspaw and Paul Hammond did at Veloc...

Bhargav Shukla Tackles Issues with Exchange 2010

25 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks with Bhargav Shukla about some of the issues he encounters with Exchange 2010 out in the field. The conversation starts out with a long ...

Jeff Stokes Test Performance and Reliability with the Windows Assessment Toolkit

18 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Jeff Stokes about Microsoft's Windows Assessment Toolkit. Download the ADK here. Another amazing free tool from Microsoft, the Asse...

Steve Goodman talks Mobile Mail!

11 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Steve Goodman about mobile mail solutions. Steve starts out talking about getting iPhone to work well with Exchange. Turns out that m...

Mark and Richard Debate ARM vs. Intel Win 8 Tablets

04 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Minasi is back! Mark and Richard get into a debate about the role of ARM-based and Intel-based tablets. Mark references a couple of articles he a...

Steve Murawski Uses Server 2012 to File Share Everything!

27 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steve Murawski about how Server 2012 affects file sharing. Server 2012 includes SMB3, which allows NIC teaming to allow commodity 1...

Rhonda Layfield on MDT 2012, SCM and Group Policy!

20 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Rhonda Layfield about the now shipping version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012. Rhonda describes the relationship between MDT ...

Robert Bogue Discusses the Nine Keys to SharePoint Success

13 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Robert Bogue about his Nine Keys to SharePoint Success. The conversation starts off with an acknowledgement that a SharePoint impleme...

Mark Minasi talks Geek Health!

06 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Mark Minasi go off the RunAs Rails a bit to talk about geek health. At the beginning of 2011 Mark embarked on a diet and exercise regime t...

Eric Shupps Improves SharePoint Performance!

30 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Eric Shupps about the process of improving SharePoint performance. Starting with the single-server implementation of SharePoint, Er...

Steve Murawski Automates with Powershell V3!

23 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Steve Murawski about the new features in Powershell V3. V3 comes with Server 2012, but should also make an appearance in 2008 R2 an...

Jeff Stokes Improves Our Boot Times!

16 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Jeff Stokes about his tools and techniques for improving boot performance. Jeff points out that it...

Richard Hicks Connects Us with DirectAccess in Server 2012!

09 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Richard Hicks about the new features of DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012. DirectAccess first made its appearance in Server 2008 R2...

Alan Sugano Does Disaster Recovery in the Cloud!

02 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Alan Sugano about using the cloud for disaster recovery. Alan discusses how the latest version of Site Recovery Manager (SRM) from VM...

Aidan Finn Explores Hyper-V in Server 8!

25 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Aidan Finn about the new Hyper-V features in Windows Server 8. Aidan starts off talking about Hyper-V Replica, focusing on it as an a...

Jes Borland Reports on SSRS!

18 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Jes Borland about SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Jes talks about how SSRS has evolved into the latest version with SQL Serve...

Allan Hirt Does Failover with SQL 2012 and Server 8!

11 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard chats with Allan Hirt about the new failover clustering features in SQL Server 2012. SQL Server 2012 has added a number of new features to mak...

Rory McCaw Gets Ready for System Center 2012!

04 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Rory McCaw of Infront Consulting about the System Center 2012 suite. The conversation starts with the starting point of System Center...

Stacia Misner Does Data Analytics with 2012!

28 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Stacia Misner about the new features of Data Analytics 2012. The conversation starts with the evolution of data analytics from 2000 t...

Brent Ozar Preps for SQL Server 2012!

21 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Brent Ozar about the upcoming release of SQL Server 2012. While there's certainly lots to talk about around SQL Server 2012, Brent fo...

Tony Redmond Sets a DMARC on Exchange!

14 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Tony Redmond about DMARC, a new email specification for controlling spam and phishing emails. DMARC is an acronym for Domain-based Me...

Mike Jones Implements IPv6 at Home!

07 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Mike Jones about implementing IPv6 at home. After listening to RunAs Episode 205 about IPv6, Mike set about to get himself ready for ...

Stephen Rose Talks About Windows 8 Consumer Preview Release!

01 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Stephen Rose about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Stephen talks about the features that IT Pros are particularily going to be intere...

Justin Morris Has Mobile Lyncs!

22 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Justin Morris about the mobility component of Lync. Only just released, Microsoft has Lync clients for iPhone, Android, Symbian and W...

Sean Deuby Federates with Simple Cloud Identity Management!

15 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Sean Deuby about Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM). SCIM is an evolving standard for simplifying federation of identity authent...

Tom Arbuthnot Integrates Business with Lync!

08 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Tom Arbuthnot about how Microsoft Lync impacts business processes. Going beyond 'What is Lync', Tom talks about how the integration o...

Stephen Foskett Builds Virtual Data Centers!

01 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Stephen Foskett about building data centers for virtual servers. The conversation ranges over how virtualization has evolved from con...

Clint Huffman Checks the Health of IIS7!

25 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Clint Huffman about understanding the health of IIS7. Clint points out some awesome resources for taking care of IIS7, especially lea...

Jeremiah Peschka Talks to DBAs about ORMs!

18 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Jeremiah Peshcka about how DBAs can work with Object Relational Mapping (ORM). ORMs are tools used by developers to speed development...

Rodney Buike Builds Private Clouds with System Center 2012!

11 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Rodney Buike about how System Center 2012 facilitates the construction of private clouds. This is where System Center all comes toget...

Dana Epp Has Eight Rules of Security!

04 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

For the first show of 2012, Richard talks to Dana Epp about his eight rules of security. Dana wrote the original blog post back in December of 2003, y...

Mark Minasi Recaps 2011!

28 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Mark Minasi about the events of 2011 that happened and didn't happen. The conversation starts with Windows 8 and the Build conference...

Todd Lamothe Secures WiFi with Windows!

21 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Todd Lamothe about how to use Windows Server 2008 to secure WiFi. No, this doesn't replace encryption, it just adds to it - with WPA2...

Mitch Garvis Explores System Center Essentials!

14 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Mitch Garvis about System Center Essentials (SCE). SCE brings the power of System Center Configuration Manager, Operations Manager an...

Tony Redmond is All In Office 365!

07 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Tony Redmond, formerly of Hewlett-Packard, about the state of affairs for Office 365. At the time of the interview Office 365 had bee...

Steve Syfuhs Makes Development Easier with ADFS!

30 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Steve Syfuhs at TechDays Toronto about IT Pros providing security services for developers using Active Directory Federated Services. ...

Rodney Buike Virtualizes His Desktop!

23 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at TechDays in Toronto, Richard talks to Rodney Buike about virtualizing desktops. Rodney digs into how Citrix's XenDesktop can let you use Wind...

Rick Claus Diagnoses DNS!

16 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard talks to Rick Claus just before lunch on the second day of TechDays Toronto about diagnosing problems with DNS. Rick admits that much of his s...

Tom Moreau Does T-SQL With Denali!

09 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard flies solo at TechDays Toronto talking to Tom Moreau about some of the new T-SQL features in the next version of SQL Server, code named Denali...

Jeff Woolsey Implements Hyper-V for SMBs!

02 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at TechDays Toronto, Richard talks to Jeff Woolsey about virtualization in the SMB space. Jeff walks through a scenario where a branch office wi...

Geoff Citron Compares the Merits of On-Premise, Hosted and Cloud Services!

26 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Greg talk to Geoff Citron about the choices IT pros can make today around running applications on-premise, with a hosting provider or in t...

Mike Laverick On VMWare vSphere 5!

19 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard flies solo to talk to Mike Laverick about VMWare. Mike starts out talking about the history of virtualization, from the early days of virtuali...

Susan Bradley and Kevin Royalty Have MicroServers!

12 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Greg talk to Susan Bradley and Kevin Royalty about the latest edition of servers from Hewlett Packard specifically made for Small Business...