RunAs Radio

Richard talks to Dave Sobel of Evolve Technologies about how small businesses can benefit from virtualization technology. The conversation ranges over migration to virtualization, how upgrades change with virtualization, the benefits to disaster recovery and more. Virtualization on the desktop is explored as well.

Richard and Greg talk to Robert Crane from the Computer Information Agency in Sydney Australia about Sharepoint 2010. The show digs into the issues that companies face when using Sharepoint without careful governance to manage their data well. Check out Microsoft's Sharepoint Governance Resource Center for more information.

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 less workstations, providing shared file services, an awesome backup solution and even remote access! Home Server offers a starting point before Small Business Server, but even after you've moved to SBS, you'll want to keep using Home Server for backup.

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: WinAudit, KeyFinder, MyDefrag, Eraser, PhotoRec, AD Change Reporter and NMap.

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 of other features. Rolly digs into Project Server to take project management to an even higher level.

Clint Huffman is back! Richard and Greg talk to Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Clint Huffman about performance tuning Hyper-V. Clint works out in the field with customers solving the problems they have with Hyper-V. He gives us a raft of tips on how to understand what Hyper-V is doing, including avoiding the Task Manager entirely (it'll lie to you) and focusing instead of Performance Monitor and xPerf. He also points us to Tony Voellm's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm. Also check out this article on Performance Tuning Hyper-V and BizTalk written by Clint and Ewan Fairweather.

Richard and Greg talk to Richard Hicks from Celestix about the Microsoft Forefront security suite. The conversation focuses on Threat Management Gateway, which is the replacement to ISA 2006. Check out Richard's blog at http://tmgblog.richardhicks.com.

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 rumors), it is safe to say that Office 2010 will ship in 2010. Rodney digs into the relevant changes in the suite, including the focus on Microsoft's "three screens" strategy, providing equal access online, on the desktop and on mobile devices. Check out the Office Product team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/office2010 and the Outlook 2010 Beta at http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/.

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 EC2 running SQL on a virtual machine is also a version of the same concept. The larger topic is really around DBAs providing services to their organizations - because that's what the cloud is offering!

Richard and Greg talk to Stephen Rose about how businesses are installing Windows 7. Stephen references the case studies on Windows 7 installations that started even before the product had shipped. The conversation digs into the ROI calculators that shows how an organization can save time, effort and money with Windows 7. Application compatibility is also an important story - Windows 7 offers built-in XP virtualization, shims and redirection to keep older apps working. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/map to figure out what applications you're running and help plan your migration. Also check out http://www.microsoft.com/springboard for more information!