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Tim Barrett Shares Computing Power with MultiPoint Server!
05 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Tim Barrett about Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server. Originally for the academic market only, MultiPoint Server is now avai...
Rhonda Layfield Deploys with MDT 2012!
28 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to the one-and-only Rhonda Layfield about the beta 1 of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012. MDT 2012 is a free tool for doi...
Mark Minasi Peeks at Windows Server 8!
21 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at the Build conference in Anaheim, California, Richard sat down with Mark Minasi to get his first impressions of Windows Server 8. What happens...
Barry Dorrans Deal with the Breach in Certificate Authority Security!
14 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Barry Dorrans, now at Microsoft, about the recent spate of security breaches at Certificate Authorities like Comodo and ...
Don Farmer Still Does Business Intelligence!
07 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Donald Farmer about his new role over at QlikView. Don spent ten years working on Business Intelligence technologies at Micro...
Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis Provide Reference for SysInternals!
31 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis about the newly released Sysinternals Administrator's Reference. SysInternals is a vital part of ...
Laura Hunter Manages the Identity Infrastructure at Microsoft!
24 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Laura Hunter, now working at Microsoft IT about the identity infrastructure at Microsoft. Laura talks about the scale of...
Jeremy Moskowitz Locks Down Applications with PolicyPak!
17 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Jeremy Moskowitz about his latest version of PolicyPak. PolicyPak provides Group Policy templates for third party applications. This ...
Yong Rhee Solves Windows Performance Issues!
10 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg to talk Yong Rhee from Microsoft Premier Field Engineering. Yong talks about optimization and health checks for Windows clients. He f...
Cameron Fuller Monitors with Operations Manager
03 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Cameron Fuller about System Center Operations Manager. Operations Manager is the instrumentation part of System Center - cent...
James Bannan Deploys Configuration Manager!
27 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to James Bannan about System Center Configuration Manager. Configuration Manager pulls together the administration of opera...
Paul and Kim Still Tweak and Tune SQL Server!
20 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Early one morning at Kim and Paul's place, Richard sat down for a conversation about how they go about helping their customers make SQL Server go fast...
Stephen Foskett Talks Storage!
13 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Stephen Foskett about storage technologies. Stephen gives a history of storage technologies from RAID arrays to SANs, includi...
Steve Wright Improves the Performance of Analysis Services!
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Steve Wright of SQL Sentry about the performance challenges with Analysis Services. Steve talks about how putting SSAS on the...
Chris Ross Supports System Center Service Manager!
29 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Chris Ross from Catapult Systems. Chris talks to the boys about System Center Service Manager, an IT Service Desk application...
Mark Minasi Recaps Tech Ed and Windows 8
22 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard chats with Mark Minasi about his Tech Ed Atlanta experience. The conversation moves onto recent announcements around Windows 8. Richard and Ma...
Colin Melia Secures Azure and Windows Phone 7
15 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at DevTeach, Richard talked to Colin Melia about the challenges of securing applications using the phone and cloud. The discussion digs hard int...
Jeremy Thake Scales Up Sharepoint!
08 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at Tech Ed Atlanta, Richard talked to Jeremy Thake from AvePoint about scaling Sharepoint. Jeremy talks about how Sharepoint decomposes into mul...
Kevin Kline Talks a Little Denali!
01 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard catches up with Kevin Kline at Tech Ed Atlanta to talk about the next version of SQL Server, code name Denali. Kevin discusses the new 'Always...
Mitch Garvis is Pro-Hyper-V!
25 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at Tech Ed Atlanta, Richard talked to Mitch Garvis about Hyper-V. Mitch focuses on how Hyper-V has caught up with VMWare feature wise. The conve...
Dmitry Sotnikov Virtualizes in the Cloud!
18 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at Tech Ed Atlanta, Richard talks to Dmitry Sotnikov from Quest Software about cloud technologies including virtualization. The debate ranges ov...
Dana Epp Knows Where CardSpace Went!
11 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to to Dana Epp about CardSpace. Now that Microsoft has decided not to release CardSpace 2.0, where does that leave identity? Dan...
Mike Crowley Adds Rights Management to Exchange!
04 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Mike Crowley from Planet Technologies about infrastructure rights management (IRM) and Exchange. Rights Management Service (R...
Ted Pattison Gets Things Done with Sharepoint!
27 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Ted Pattison about how SharePoint 2010 is permeating every aspect of business. All of the major Microsoft product lines now h...
Brent Ozar Talks SQLAzure, SSDs and more!
20 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at SQLConnections, Richard sat down with Brent Ozar for a rolling discussion about the things Brent is working about these days - how SQLAzure i...
Tony Redmond Considers Exchange in the Cloud!
13 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
While at Exchange Connections in Orlando, Richard sat down with Tony Redmond, former CTO of Hewlett Packard. Tony talks about how Microsoft's Office 3...
Ken Westin Secures Mobile Devices!
06 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Ken Westin from ActiveTrak about mobile device security. The conversation ranges over securable smartphones, tablets and lapt...
Ed Horley Deploys IPv6!
30 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Ed Horley about getting IPv6 deployed. In February 2011, IANA exhausted all the reserve IPv4 addresses, allocating them ...
Stephen Rose Talks About Windows vNext, IE9 and inTune!
23 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Stephen Rose about where Windows is going. Stephen gives us some hints about Windows vNext and some ideas on how IT Pros are ...
Jeffrey Snover Invents PowerShell!
16 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to the father of Powershell - Jeffrey Snover! Jeff talks about the core concepts of PowerShell, advances that happened from...
Steve Riley Looks From the Riverbed to the Cloud!
09 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Steve Riley, late of Microsoft and Amazon, now with Riverbed Technology. Steve shares his thoughts on Riverbed's products, cl...
Mark Russinovich Updates Us On Azure!
02 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Mark Russinovich, PhD, Technical Fellow and all around smart guy about Azure. In 2010 Mark moved from the Windows team to the...
Show 200!
23 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, it's the 200th show! Richard and Greg invite Kim Tripp and Paul Randal to share a celebration of the past 200 shows. This may not be the most tec...
Peter Schmidt Federates Exchange 2010!
16 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Peter Schmidt about federation in Exchange 2010. While federation has been around for awhile in Exchange, the 2010 versi...
Karri Alexion-Tiernan Virtualizes Our Desktop!
09 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Karri Alexion-Tiernan, director of Product Management for Desktop Virtualization. Karri digs into desktop virtualization in g...
Doug Splinter Lyncs Us Up!
02 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Doug Splinter from avtex about Microsoft Lync. Lync is the new name and new version of Office Communications Server. Lync, li...
Brian Randell Uses Lab Management for IT Testing!
26 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Brian Randell about Microsoft Lab Management. Lab Management is a tool aimed at the development crowd, bundled with Visual St...
Pam Lahoud is Proactive about SQL Server Performance
19 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Pam Lahoud about SQL Server performance. Not just fighting slow queries, but planning in advance for poor performance be...
Brad McGehee on the Remote IT Administrator!
12 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Brad McGehee about the challenges of working remotely. The conversation ranges over getting your home office set up right, ne...
Susan Bradley Digs Into Small Business Server 2011!
06 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Susan Bradley, the SBS Diva! Susan digs into the new features of Small Business Server 2011. Check out the Microsoft SBS site...
Joel Oleson Talks Office 365!
29 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Joel Oleson from Quest Software about Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud based offering for Office, Exchan...
Amit Agarwal Analyzes SQL Traces with Project Lucy!
22 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Amit Agarwal from Quest Software about Project Lucy. Projecy Lucy is a free Azure-based utility that analyzes SQL Traces to find perf...
Ned Pyle Migrates from FRS and DFSR!
15 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Ned Pyle from Microsoft Directory Services support. Ned, with his associate Ted Stephens, developed FRS2DFSR, a utility for assisting...
Kevin Kline Recaps PASS!
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo in a discussion with Kevin Kline about PASS and all things SQL Server. The conversation ranges over business intelligence, OLTP, SS...
Alan Sugano Helps Us Migrate from VMWare ESX to ESXi!
01 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Alan Sugano about migrating from VMWare ESX to ESXi. VMWare announced that the next version of ESX is the last one, only ESXi...
Mark Minasi Ask Questions About Cloud!
24 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Another Connections conference show, Richard talks to the one-and-only Mark Minasi about his keynote at the conference. Mark aims his sights at cloud ...
Jeremy Moskowitz Troubleshoots Group Policy!
17 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
While at DevConnections, Richard talks to Jeremy Moskowitz about what every IT person needs to know about troubleshooting group policy.
David Mills on System Center Essentials!
10 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to David Mills about System Center Essentials (SCE). SCE is the core parts of the System Center suite aimed at the small to medi...
Clint Huffman Announces PAL 2.0!
03 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Clint Huffman about Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) 2.0. PAL makes the performance counters in perfmon far more manageable...
Sean Deuby Talks Identity in the Cloud!
27 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Sean Deuby about issues around identity in the cloud. The conversation explores both the consumer and enterprise aspects of i...
Jeff Stokes Introduces Us to xPerf!
20 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Jeff Stokes about xPerf. xPerf is part of a suite of tools called the Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (WPT). WPT digs into Windo...
Don Jones Revisits PowerShell!
13 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Don Jones about PowerShell. The conversation starts off with a discussion on the fundamentals of PowerShell, but then dives i...
Adam Hall Automates with Opalis in System Center!
06 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Adam Hall about Opalis, the latest product addition to System Center. Opalis provides automation and integration for IT tasks...
Jose Barreto Distributes Our File System!
29 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Jose Barreto from the File Server Team at Microsoft. Jose talks about File Replication Services, Distributed File System and ...
Alan Burchill Talks Group Policy Preferences!
22 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard catches Alan Burchill while at Tech Ed New Zealand. Alan digs into the new Group Policy Preferences features introduced with Windows 7 and Win...
Rhonda Layfield, Queen of Deployment!
15 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Rhonda Layfield during Tech Ed Australia about her work with Microsoft Deployment Tools (MDT). Rhonda goes over the relationship betw...
Chris Jackson on IE6 App Compat!
08 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
While at Tech Ed Australia, Richard caught up with Chris Jackson to talk about the latest problem in application compatibility - web applications depe...
Stephen Rose on the State of Windows Today!
01 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Stephen Rose from Microsoft about the latest around Windows 7. The discussion roams around Service Pack 1, the new Micro...
Adam Gent Gets Us Started with OCS!
25 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Adam Gent about Office Communications Server (OCS). OCS brings the PBX into the PC, so that email, instant messaging and tele...
Doug Finke on the OData PowerShell Explorer!
18 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Doug Finke about the OData PowerShell Explorer. The OData PowerShell Explorer makes it easy to make OData part of your PowerS...
Adam Machanic Does SQL in Parallel
11 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Adam Machanic about parallelism in SQL Server. Executing queries in parallel has been in SQL Server since version 7, but with the num...
Isaac Roybal on Microsoft, Cisco and the Unified Computing System!
04 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Isaac Roybal, late of Microsoft, now with Cisco, about the Unified Computing System. The Unified Computing System (UCS) is Ci...
Dana Epp Fixes a Security Vulnerabilty!
28 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Dana Epp about finding and fixing a security vulnerability. Dana tells the story of how a customer found a bug in one of Scor...
Kim Tripp and Paul Randal Talk about Learning Effectively!
21 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Kim Tripp and Paul Randal about how people can learn effectively. The discussion ranges over the different vehicles of learni...
Richard Campbell on the Differences Between IT and Dev!
14 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Franklin drops into RunAs to host an episode where the guest is none other than Richard Campbell! Richard talks about the differences between IT ...
Mark Minasi on the Things Windows 8 Needs!
07 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Mark Minasi about the things that Windows 8 is really going to need. It starts with getting rid of reboots and goes crazy from there....
Mark Minasi Digs Into Office and Presentations!
30 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Mark Minasi about Office 2010. Mark talks about his frustrations with Office (mostly Outlook). The conversation spends more time on P...
Robert Smith Debugs Windows!
23 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Robert Smith from Premier Field Engineering about what the IT Pro can do to debug crashes. The focus of the conversation is on blue s...
Vijay Tewari Briefs Us on Hyper-V in 2008 R2 SP1!
16 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Vijay Tewari about the new features being added to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The beta of Service...
Joel Oleson Upgrades to Sharepoint 2010!
09 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard flies solo to talk to Joel Oleson about upgrading to Sharepoint 2010. Since Joel was last on the show (#27!) he's left Microsoft to work with ...
Alex Payne Compares Online Offerings!
02 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Alex Payne about the online products at Microsoft. The focus steers toward the enterprise side of things with Exchange Online...
Daniel Parker Adds Linux to Active Directory!
26 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Daniel Parker, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, about integrating Linux servers into Active Directory. The conversation no...
Laura Chappell Wires Sharks!
19 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to the amazing Laura Chappell about WireShark. WireShark is an open source tool for analyzing network packets. You can download ...
Brent Ozar Masters SQL Server 2008!
12 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Brent Ozar about his experiences doing the Certified Masters in SQL Server 2008 program at Microsoft - a three week intensive...
Francois Doremieux Updates us on Office Communicator!
28 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Francois Doremieux while he was in France, talking about Microsoft Communications Server. The discussion digs into how teleco...
Robert Hamilton Prevents Data Loss!
21 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Robert Hamilton about Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Modern DLP products actually inspect data as it moves around the network, i...
Eriq Neale Puts Macs in Active Directory!
14 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Eriq Neale about mixing Apple Macs and PCs in networks. The conversation digs into how Macs can access file shares in Windows...
Nick Simons Puts Office on the Web!
07 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Nick Simons about the upcoming Microsoft office Web Apps. Web Apps are lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and On...
Amy Babinchuk Deals with Security in EBS!
31 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Amy Babinchuk about Essential Business Server (EBS). Amy digs into the challenges of setting up EBS's Threat Management Gatew...
Dave Sobel on Virtualization for Small Businesses!
24 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard talks to Dave Sobel of Evolve Technologies about how small businesses can benefit from virtualization technology. The conversation ranges over...
Robert Crane Manages Sharepoint 2010!
17 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Robert Crane from the Computer Information Agency in Sydney Australia about Sharepoint 2010. The show digs into the issues th...
Kevin Royalty Uses Home Server in Businesses!
10 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Kevin Royalty about Home Server. Intended for the home, Microsoft's Home Server works great for small businesses with ten or ...
Doug Toombs Gets Us More Free Tools!
03 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Doug Toombs about more free tools! Doug has a knack for finding great free tools for IT Pros. Here's the list from this show:...
Rolly Perreaux Manages with Microsoft Project!
24 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Rolly Perreaux about Microsoft Project 2010 and Project Server 2010. Project moves into the 64 bit world in 2010 and a host o...
Clint Huffman Does Hyper-V Performance Tuning!
17 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Clint Huffman is back! Richard and Greg talk to Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Clint Huffman about performance tuning Hyper-V. Clint works out in th...
Richard Hicks Gets Us Secure on the ForeFront!
10 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Richard Hicks from Celestix about the Microsoft Forefront security suite. The conversation focuses on Threat Management Gatew...
Rodney Buike Talks Office 2010!
03 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Rodney Buike about the upcoming Office 2010. While he couldn't commit to a launch date (go search online, there's lots of rum...
Brent Ozar puts SQL in the Cloud!
27 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Brent Ozar from Quest Software about running SQL in the cloud. Part of the conversation focuses on SQL Azure, but Amazon's EC...
Stephen Rose Deploys Windows 7 to Businesses!
20 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Stephen Rose about how businesses are installing Windows 7. Stephen references the case studies on Windows 7 installations th...
Kevin Kline on the State of SQL Server and More!
13 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Kevin Kline from Quest Software about SQL Server 2008 R2, the challenges of Business Intelligence, even a discussion around t...
Laura Hunter Upgrades Active Directory with Server 2008 R2!
06 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Laura Hunter about where Active Directory is at with Windows Server 2008 R2. This is the version of Active Directory called &...
Mitch Garvis Gets Us Deployed with MDT 2010!
30 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Mitch Garvis about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. MDT 2010 helps you manage your installs of operating systems, drive...
Rhonda Layfield Deploys Everything!
23 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Rhonda Layfield about deployment technologies made by Microsoft. There's a variety of them, and Rhonda goes over the collage ...
Bhargav Shukla Goes Deep on Exchange 2010 High Availability and Resiliency!
16 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Bhargav is back! Richard and Greg talk to Bhargav Shukla about the High Availability features of Exchange 2010. Bhargav digs into the substantial chan...
Sumeet Bansal and Chris Featherstone Go Solid State Driving!
09 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Sumeet Bansal and Chris Featherstone about using solid state drives in the enterprise. SSDs have penetrated deeply into the w...
Bhargav Shukla Deploys Exchange 2010!
02 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Bhargav Shukla of Microsoft's Premier Field Engineering. Bhargav digs into the features of the newly released Exchange 2010 a...
Clint Huffman Announces PAL Version 2!
25 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Clint Huffman from Microsoft's Premier Field Engineering (PFE) about the new version of Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL). P...
Susan Bradley Patches Our Machines with Windows Server Update Services!
18 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Susan Bradley, the SBS Diva, about her other life - patching servers. Susan digs into Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), ...
Andy Malone Is Securing Social Networking!
11 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Andy Malone about the challenges of social networking for the enterprise. It's not enough just to cut your users off from soc...
Sahil Malik Fills Us In on Sharepoint 2010!
04 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Greg talk to Sahil Malik on what's coming in Sharepoint 2010. Sahil has been working with Sharepoint 2010 for more than a year, and the ND...