
Welcome to the SysAdmin Weekly Podcast, your go-to source for IT-related content tailored to busy system administrators in the trenches. Hosted by longtime sysadmins and Microsoft MVPs Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron, this show dives deep into the challenges and solutions that matter most to sysadmins on any given day. From technical know-how to real-world insights, SysAdmin Weekly is dedicated to t... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 62 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

We throw an alert when a disk hits 85 percent. Nobody has ever built the monitoring system for the person who gets the alert.
Andy Syrewicze is joined by Paul Croker, a UK IT pro who founded 404 Stress Not Found, a nonprofit built because tech and c... more
Microsoft has no intention of making 365 licensing simpler, because the complexity is what gives them room to negotiate.
Andy Syrewicze gets Paul Schnackenburg back on the show to map Microsoft 365 licensing as it actually stands in 2026. The July p... more
Which protocol you use to reach the box is the least interesting decision you will make about remote access.
Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron go after the piece they cut from the tools episode. Eric lands the sharpest version half an hour in: what you ... more
The tools that stay in the kit for a decade are the ones that still work when the network, the domain, or the boot volume is the thing that broke.
Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron open their real toolboxes and argue about what earns permanent residency... more
Somewhere inside that isolated network, port 22 is open, and it has been open since the outage six months ago that nobody wrote up.
Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron take apart a term the industry uses constantly and almost never earns. They walk the ma... more
Two careers, two completely different entry points, and the exact same first catastrophe: data gone, no idea if it was coming back.
Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron trade full origin stories, from the 486 and the VIC-20 through the first paid tech jobs... more
"No budget" is almost never no budget. It is no budget yet, and the thing that closes the gap is your ability to put a real dollar figure on the risk you are carrying.
Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron have both run IT for organizations where getting th... more
Windows Admin Center is a genuinely useful tool wrapped in an on-ramp so rough it took Andy four hours, a from-scratch certificate authority, and a pile of misleading error messages just to reach the login screen.
Andy rebuilt his lab on an all-Core... more
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The group leans hard into hands-on IT operations, troubleshooting, and practical strategy for busy system administrators. Across episodes, listeners encounter real-world stories about running lean IT shops, managing budgets, choosing open-source tools, and navigating the shifting landscape of virtualization, cloud integrations, and hybrid environments. Discussions routinely balance tactical guidance (triage, automation, backups, incident postmortems) with broader topics like security hygiene, DNS privacy, hardware scarcity, and the evolving tooling landscape. A throughline is prioritizing reliability, risk awareness, and cost-conscious decision making, all delivered with candid anecdotes from long-time practitioners. A standout aspect is th... more
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