Richard and Greg dig into Hyper-V with guest Anil Desai. Hyper-V is the virtualization product that shipped as a beta with Windows Server 2008, the release version to be available 180 days later. This show was recorded while Hyper-V was still a release candidate. Anil digs into the strengths and weaknesses of Hyper-V and how it compares to products like VMWare's ESX Server.
Richard and Greg talk to Val Matison about Microsoft's Business Intelligence technologies. Val digs into the fundamentals of why you would want to use BI software and how the different products Microsoft makes work together.
Richard and Greg talk to Nelson and Danielle Ruest of Resolution Enterprises (www.reso-net.com) about implementing virtualization technologies in small businesses. Nelson and Danielle are the authors of the book Microsoft Windows Server 2008: The Complete Reference.
Richard and Greg talk to Michael Manos, Senior Director of Data Center Services at Microsoft about building efficient data centers. Michael talks about how Microsoft is doubling its data center capacity every year and sees no end in sight, putting a heavy requirement on building efficiently. The conversation explores making greener data centers as well as the process of measuring efficiency in the data center.
Richard and Greg talk to Chad Jones about Microsoft Application Virtualization - formerly known as SoftGrid. The conversation explores the differences in various kinds of virtualization and how application virtualization fits into the picture.
Richard and Greg talk to Noel Bruton about the challenges of help desks and tech support in general. The interview digs down into the real value of great tech support in your organization. Check out Noel's web site at www.noelbruton.com.
Richard and Greg talk to Marco Shaw about the growth of PowerShell in the Windows server community. Marco's blog at marcoshaw.blogspot.com provides info on PowerShell and his virtual user group meetings on PowerShell. We also dig into the role of WMI in PowerShell and Microsoft's focus on making PowerShell a key tool for managing all Microsoft products in the future.
Richard and Greg talk to Adam Cogan about extracting and reporting data from Exchange Server. Adam's consulting business, SSW, uses Exchange as the primary communication method to their customers - even phone calls are logged as emails. This has led Adam to discover some great KPIs from his Exchange data. You can learn more about ExchangeReporter at www.ssw.com.au.
Richard and Greg talk to Scott Kveton about OpenID. OpenID is a single sign-on solution that could very well make the classic username and password obsolete. This is a fast half hour - you'll find yourself wanting to listen again!
Richard and Greg talk to Bil Simser about the challenges of managing Sharepoint 2007. Bil points us to the SharePoint Capacity Tool (www.shrinkster.com/uhw) and comparisons between Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (www.shrinkster.com/ui1). Check out Bil's blog at www.shrinkster.com/uhv.
Richard and Greg talk to Kirk Munro about PowerShell and PowerGUI. PowerGUI is a free utility created by Quest Software, you can download it at www.powergui.org.
Richard and Greg talk to Dominick Baier about what it takes to secure an ASP.NET 2.0 application. The conversation ranges across least-privlege programming, involving security at the design point and why SSL should be on by default!
Replacing a failed recording from Tech Ed Barcelona, Richard and Greg talk to George Morbargha about Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS). George works with Brocade who develops a set of tools called StorageX for managing DFS.
While at Tech Ed Europe IT Forum in Barcelona, Richard and Greg talked to Joel Frauenheim and Martin Booth about Microsoft's new Windows System Center Mobile Device Manager.
Steve Riley sits down with Richard and Greg to share his thoughts on current security concerns. This show was recorded at Tech Ed Europe IT Forum in Barcelona.
While at Tech Ed Europe IT Forum in Barcelona, Richard and Greg talked to Michael Anderberg, an IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft about ISA Server. Michael digs into the history of ISA Server and how it has evolved into the latest versions.
At Tech Ed Europe IT Forum in Barcelona, Richard and Greg sit down with Paul Randal and Kim Tripp to talk about everything new in SQL Server 2008.
Richard and Greg have a second interview with Chris Avis while at Connections in Las Vegas. This time the focus is on that scourge of the Internet, email spam. Chris digs into how the 2007 edition of Exchange extends the spam fighting capabilities of the product.
While at the Connections conference in Las Vegas, Richard and Greg talked to Chris Avis about Windows Deployment Services (WDS). WDS replaces Remote Installation Services (RIS) to provide automated installation of operating systems onto bare-install machines using network boot (PXE).
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.
Tom Clark talks to Richard and Greg about iSCSI and how its bringing SAN solutions to the medium-scale enterprise. iSCSI uses TCP and Ethernet to provide SAN features and connectivity at a substantially lower cost than Fibre Channel.
