Practical Microsoft IT without the theater.
RunAs Radio treats enterprise technology as work that has to survive real users, costs, outages, compliance concerns, and migrations. Its conversations move from Microsoft tools and security risks into the practical choices administrators face when systems get complicated.
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RunAs Radio is a long-running technology conversation for IT professionals working around Microsoft infrastructure, security, cloud services, data platforms, and the everyday friction of enterprise administration. The show has a practical center. Rather than treating new tools as abstract trends, it asks what happens when an admin has to deploy them, secure them, explain them, and live with them for years. Recent conversations show that pattern clearly. Microsoft 365 tenant configuration becomes a discussion about snapshots, drift detection, Graph APIs, public preview limits, and the long wait for official tooling. AI agents become less magical once the conversation turns to prompt abuse, privilege boundaries, service tickets, Model Context Protocol, and the old social-engineering habit of getting helpful systems to overreach. Purview appears in the context of bosses asking for Microsoft 365 Copilot and administrators needing data security, compliance, and privacy controls before that rollout becomes trouble. Sustainable AI is handled through power consumption, performance measurement, domain expertise, and the uncomfortable question of whether today’s spending surge can last. SQL Server in 2026 is framed through Fabric, lakehouse patterns, migration paths, billing models, and the continuing need for familiar relational power. Security topics stay close to the ground, especially when Active Directory Certificate Services and PKI are treated as real attack surfaces rather than background plumbing. The show is not all policy and cloud architecture. A home-lab episode brings the same operational mindset to rural connectivity, Starlink, fiber, power outages, and infrastructure choices on the Sunshine Coast. The interview style is brisk but patient. Guests are allowed to develop examples, while the conversation keeps circling back to what can actually be administered, monitored, or repaired. There is light banter, especially with returning guests, but it rarely displaces the technical purpose. The show suits listeners who want the working version of technology news: what changed, what breaks, what is supported, and what still needs caution. It is especially useful for Microsoft-oriented admins who need enough context to make better decisions without sitting through polished product theater. The strongest episodes turn a broad technical headline into a checklist of tradeoffs, risks, and next actions. That is the show’s value: it talks like enterprise IT is complicated because it is, then makes that complexity more manageable.
Made for: RunAs Radio is for IT professionals, Microsoft administrators, security practitioners, cloud operators, and technical leads who need usable context around enterprise systems. It especially suits listeners who care about deployment details, compliance, and operational risk.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pressing technical guests for the admin-level consequences of new tools: what is supported, what can drift, what can be secured, and what still needs judgment. Its Microsoft focus is deep, but the conversations stay plainspoken and practical.
RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
RunAs Radio turns enterprise technology announcements into practical questions about deployment, migration, measurement, security, and day-to-day administration.
Richard Campbell keeps RunAs Radio close to the decisions that make enterprise technology usable. Most episodes pair him with a guest for a focused conversation, and his questions repeatedly move from product announcements to migration paths, operational limits, security risks,…
Richard Campbell turns infrastructure headaches into the questions you wish had surfaced before deployment.
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A practical Microsoft 365 discussion about keeping internal comms useful without losing the human side.
Emily Mancini and Richard Campbell frame internal corporate communications as something people have to live with every day, not a neat management idea.
A ServiceNow ticket shows how ordinary agent helpfulness can become a privilege problem.
RunAs Radio brings AI agent security down to a recognizable IT scene: a ServiceNow ticket tells an agent it can finish only by copying the previous ticket's description and resolution, then finding another agent if it gets stuck.
A practical Microsoft 365 tenant-management episode about snapshots, scheduled drift detection, and the limits still left before remediation.
RunAs Radio gives a familiar Microsoft 365 administration problem a more workable frame: managing tenant configuration as code. The episode follows how current tenant settings can be collected, represented in JSON, and checked through Graph APIs on a schedule.
A grounded AI discussion about power use, performance measurement, and the spending pressure around the field.
Run As Radio's conversation with Darshana Shah treats sustainable AI as an engineering problem, not a slogan. Shah, chief AI officer at Elastic Cloud, keeps returning to power consumption, developer choices, and measurement that weighs domain expertise alongside statistical…
Bob Ward places SQL Server's next move in Fabric, with Power BI needs and migration questions close behind.
RunAs Radio frames SQL Server in 2026 around a practical platform question: where it fits as Fabric becomes part of the data conversation. Richard Campbell and Bob Ward keep the discussion grounded, moving from the disruption many teams might expect to the appeal of creating a…
Holiday gift-show chat with practical gadgets and enough banter to keep it from feeling stiff.
Run As Radio's annual SysAdmin gift show stays practical. Richard Campbell talks with Joey Snow and Rick Claus about gear that fits IT work, led by a portable CO2 detector that can also double as a reason to step out of a meeting.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Run As Radio episode 1032 with Emily Mancini focuses on internal corporate communications in Microsoft 365, recorded Monday, March 9th, 2026.
On Run As Radio episode 1031, host Richard Campbell talks with returning guest Niall Merrigan, a security specialist working in Norway's energy sector, about cross-prompt injection attacks (XPIA) against AI agents.
Richard Campbell discusses his home lab setup in a remote coastal area, covering challenges like power outages and internet connectivity, including his experiences with cable modem, Starlink, and fiber.
On Run As Radio episode 1029, host Richard Campbell talks with Nick Charlebois-Laprade, principal program manager at Microsoft leading M365 configuration-as-code, about Microsoft's new Unified Tenant Configuration Management (UTCM) APIs.
On Run As Radio episode 1028, recorded at NDC London, host Richard Campbell talks with Darshana Shah, chief AI officer at Elastic Cloud, about sustainable AI.
On Run As Radio episode 1027, host Richard Campbell talks with Bob Ward, principal architect at Microsoft's Data Group, about SQL Server 2025's launch at Ignite.
Richard Campbell interviews Susie Edwards-Alexander about hiring trends and career development for IT professionals in 2026.
Richard Campbell interviews Steve Buchanan about his experience with cloud engineering, Azure, AKS, and his new role at Jamf after being laid off from a major tech company.
Erica Burgess discusses hacking using AI, covering her background in offensive cybersecurity and her work on AI-driven exploits.
An interview with a Microsoft security researcher about securing Active Directory Certificate Services against attacks.
An interview with Erica Telly about getting started with Microsoft Purview for data security, compliance, and privacy in the context of AI adoption.
An IT professional podcast episode discussing business process automation in 2026 with guest Ian Cooper.
An interview with Amber Vandenberg about moving from ideation to implementation in IT, recorded at Build Stuff in Lithuania.
An interview with Jeremy Winter, corporate VP for Azure core platform, discussing Azure's infrastructure offerings and future plans for 2026.
Paul Theriot discusses what Windows wants for Christmas, including the reunification of server and client after eight years.
An interview with Liam Wesley about incident management lessons from the CrowdStrike event, aimed at IT professionals.
Richard Campbell and Nikki Chappell discuss the M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist for IT professionals.
Richard Campbell brings back Christmas Gifts for SysAdmins with Joey Snow and Rick Claus.
Richard Campbell and Steve Syphus discuss the end of NTLM authentication and the successful deployment of strong certificates in Active Directory.
Richard Campbell interviews Todd Gardner about automating SSL certificate management to reduce deployment headaches.
Richard Campbell announces the 1000th episode celebration and introduces an episode on data governance for AI with guest Martina Grom.
Richard Campbell and Tony Redmond discuss the power of Microsoft Graph for IT professionals.
Richard Campbell interviews April Dunham about Co-Pilot Studio and AI for IT professionals.
This episode features an interview with Arun Ulag, discussing his role in Power BI and the evolution of Microsoft Fabric in 2025 for IT professionals.
This episode features Bob Ward discussing SQL Server 2025, reflecting on its evolution over 25 years and his 32-year career at Microsoft.
An interview with Liz Fong Jones about the case for telemetry in IT operations and observability practices.
This episode features an interview with Steve Syfuhs, who manages the Windows authentication platform at Microsoft, discussing how to fix a security vulnerability in Active Directory.
Richard Campbell interviews Sarah Young, a principal cloud security advocate at Microsoft, about how to talk to security teams, recorded at NDC Melbourne.
This episode features an interview with Jason Helmick, a Microsoft PowerShell product manager, discussing PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 updates for IT professionals.
This episode features an interview with Liz Tesch, a senior cloud solution architect at Microsoft, discussing Active Directory in 2025, her role in incident response and compromise recovery, and her background in IT consulting and system administration.
An interview with Yuri Diogenes about building a career in cybersecurity, covering how to get started and succeed in the field.