
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 | 43 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

Andy and Eric Siron tackle one of the most debated questions in IT careers: do you find a company and stay for the long haul, or do you job hop every few years to chase better pay and new challenges? With over four decades of combined industry experi... more
Andy and Paul Schnackenburg dig into a leadership change at Microsoft that has the security community raising eyebrows. Charlie Bell, the executive vice president of security who championed the Secure Future Initiative, is out and being replaced by a... more
After a brief hiatus, the crew is back! Andy is joined by both Paul Schnackenburg and Eric Siron to tackle a big question: what happens when access to compute becomes a subscription privilege instead of an owned capability?
This week's topic goes de... more
Microsoft reportedly handed over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI as part of a criminal investigation and that raises some uncomfortable questions.
In this episode of SysAdmin Weekly, Andy and Eric unpack what actually happened, how BitLocker key ... more
This week on SysAdmin Weekly, we push back hard on one of the most damaging patterns in modern IT security: making decisions based on fear instead of facts.
Security headlines love absolutes: “everything is broken,” “encryption is useless,” “the clo... more
It’s a new year, which means it’s time for every SysAdmin’s favorite activity...... dusting off the incident response and disaster recovery plans that haven’t been touched since the Apollo moon landing.
In this episode of SysAdmin Weekly, Andy and E... more
Abstraction has made modern IT faster, easier, and more scalable but it’s also quietly eroding the deep technical understanding that SysAdmins used to rely on.
In the first SysAdmin Weekly episode of 2026, Andy and Eric dig into how layers of abstra... more
This week on SysAdmin Weekly, Andy goes on a (fully justified) rant about the current state of browsers and why it feels like there are no good options left for sysadmins.
From Chromium monoculture and browser bloat, to AI creeping into the most tr... more
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