RunAs Radio

Richard and Greg talk to Tony Redmond from Hewlett Packard about utilizing Powershell with Microsoft Exchange. Powershell (code-named Monad) is Microsoft's technology for providing command-line interface control.

Richard and Greg talk to Jeremy Moskowitz of gpanswers.com fame about Group Policy in Active Directory. As Jeremy says, if you have Active Directory, you have Group Policy, and you might as well learn how to take advantage of it.

Richard and Greg talk to Randy Smith about locking down Vista for the enterprise. While we can't help making fun of UAC, we do dig into the techniques around using BitLocker and restricting the use of USB keys, etc. Who says security can't be fun?

Richard and Greg talk to Brien Posey about the issues around securing Exchange Server effectively. The discussion ranges over Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile Access, RPC over HTTP, SSL, VPNs and more!

Richard and Greg talk to Doug Toombs about tools that every IT Pro needs! Here are the tools talked about on the show:

Richard and Greg talk to Tony Howlett and Glenn Kramer of Network Security Services about Information Security. More than just protecting credit card numbers, InfoSec is a complex area of security that takes a lot of thinking to get right.

Joel Oleson talks to Richard and Greg about the IT management of Sharepoint. Sharepoint has a knack for showing up everywhere in an organization whether you want it to or not. A solid plan at the IT level to provide Sharepoint services to the organization can solve that problem.

Mitch Garvis talks to Richard and Greg about Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD). BDD is the evolution of earlier versions, along side products like SMS, Vista and Office to do zero touch and light touch deployments of operating systems and applications.

Richard and Greg talk to Trey Johnson from Cizer about Microsoft's Business Intelligence offerings. The product line up from Microsoft is expanding beyond SQL Server, Analysis Services and Excel to include Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services, the new PerformancePoint Server and ProClarity Analysis Tools.

Brad McGehee discusses the career path of a professional database administrator. Often the DBA role is thrust upon an IT professional or developer without much in the way of specific training. Growing into the role is largely a self-motivated exercise. Brad talks about the habits that successful DBAs have, focused on on-going education and working to protect their organizations data.