Podcast
RunAs Radio
Hosted by Richard Campbell · EN
RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products.
17episodes
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Production LLMs with Vaishnavi Gudur
1w ago00:35:28Tap to summarizeWhat does a production-grade large language model look like? While at NDC Sydney, Richard talked with Vaishnavi Gudur from Microsoft about her work scaling LLMs for Teams transcriptions, summaries, and more! Vaishnavi discusses the underlying complexities of operating the Teams LLM infrastructure for a large array of customers across different countries and regulatory regimes. Data sovereignty also plays a large role: different countries have specific rules on where data must reside and how it can be accessed. As the scale increases and the tail gets longer, the rules set gets more complex! Lots of great thinking about what LLMs look like in a production environment. Links Transcripts in Microsoft Teams Recorded April 24, 2026
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Securing Active Directory with Spencer Alessi
2w ago00:36:34Tap to summarizeHow secure is your Active Directory infrastructure? While at Zero Trust World in Orlando, Richard chatted with Spencer Alessi about his work helping companies secure Active Directory, making it more difficult for black hats to exploit it for lateral moves during a breach attempt. Spencer talks about the increasing speed of these exploits, making it much harder to block them after the fact, so it's best to make AD too difficult to target. Jake Hildreth's Locksmith tools are a great place to start - free and open source. There are also Microsoft tools and Spencer's own AD Security Resource Kit to help evaluate your AD infrastructure and lock it down! Links Locksmith Enhanced Security Admin Environment Active Directory Security Resource Kit Recorded March 4, 2026
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M365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver
3w ago00:38:45Tap to summarizeThere's competition in the Office productivity space! Richard chats with Sharon Weaver about her experiences with M365 Copilot and Anthropic's Claude Cowork to improve information worker productivity. Sharon talks about the confusion around all the different copilots in the Microsoft space - including the chat tools, research agents, and more. But when it comes to helping with an Excel spreadsheet, M365 Copilot can't do what Claude Cowork can do. Sharon talks about describing the goals of a spreadsheet to Claude Cowork and having the tool generate the spreadsheet, make corrections, and add formatting. Cowork has similar capabilities for presentations, and with the Connector library, new functionality is being added routinely. There's some competition in the AI productivity space - things are getting interesting! Links Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher in Microsoft 365 Copilot Claude Cowork Claude Cowork Connectors Copilot in PowerPoint Recorded February 24, 2026
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The Life and Death of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Michael Niehaus
4w ago00:39:16Tap to summarizeWhat does the world look like after Microsoft Deployment Toolkit? Richard talks to MDT creator Michael Niehaus about the life and death of MDT. Michael talks about his early days at Microsoft, when he created a better way to manage operating system images so you can build and rebuild Windows PCs for your organization. But MDT had been in maintenance since 2013, without specific support for Windows 11. And now, some security concerns have ended support entirely. So what happens next? Michael offers fixes to keep MDT safe to use, and some alternatives if you want to keep managing your own images!LinksMicrosoft Deployment ToolkitMichael's Post of the MDT VulnerabilityWindows AutopilotFriends of MDTMDT Retirement NoticeMicrosoft Intune2Pint DeployRMMS ConferenceiPXE AnywhereRecorded February 17, 2026
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Internal Corporate Communications in 2026 with Emily Mancini
Apr 1500:34:42Tap to summarizeHow does your company communicate with its employees today? Richard chats with Emily Mancini about her work with companies that manage internal communications. Emily talks about the power of email, collaborative messaging like Teams, and the Microsoft Viva products Engage and Amplify. The conversation digs into knowing where your people look for info, how they communicate, and what they want to connect with. Being able to measure the response to different communication means helps you to work on better messages and methods - the goal is to enable employees to connect with and utilize the resources of the organization, creating a stronger company culture! Links Microsoft Viva Engage Microsoft Viva Amplify Create and Send a News Digest Recorded March 9, 2026
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Securing AI Agents with Niall Merrigan
Apr 800:37:44Tap to summarizeAI Agents can be powerful tools for an organization - but are they a security risk? Richard talks to Niall Merrigan about his experiences dealing with the various ways that LLMs can be attacked, starting with prompt injection. While some attacks are humorous, others can be very serious, especially in the context of agents, where the right prompt can cause an agent to use its capabilities to access or affect data outside its expected behavior. This has already led to several well-publicized CVEs, including the ServiceNow Privilege Escalation advisory. New tools have emerged to help restrict prompts and keep agents on task - but as with all things security, this is another set of tools you need to get familiar with!LinksAI Recommendation PoisoningDetecting Prompt Injection AttacksMark Russinovich Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak AttackCross-Site Scripting (XSS)Cameron Mattis LinkedInPrivilege Escalation in ServiceNow AI PlatformAzure AI Content Safety Prompt ShieldsTask AdherenceSimon Willison's Lethal TrifectaMicrosoft Agent 365PyRITOWASP Securing Agentic Applications GuideRecorded February 16, 2026
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My Home Lab
Apr 100:09:36Tap to summarizeAre you ready to take a look at Richard's home lab? Richard goes solo to share insights about the new infrastructure, hardware, and automation in his seaside home. He discusses the challenges posed by its remote location, including unreliable power and connectivity. You'll find plenty of details about networking, computing infrastructure, automation, telemetry, and experiments with AI technologies. Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look! Links Kubernetes Ubiquiti Enterprise Campus Aggregation Proxmox nVidia H200 GPU Prometheus Grafana Video Tour of Home Lab Recorded April 1, 2026
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Unified Tenant Management with Nik Charlebois-Laprade
Mar 2500:33:33Tap to summarizeConfiguration drift is real - how do you control it in your Azure tenant? Richard talks to Nik Charlebois-Laprade about his ongoing work on desired state configuration DSC for Microsoft 365 tenants. Microsoft365DSC has been an open-source tool for managing configuration for some time, but today it has become a preview product called Unified Tenant Configuration in Microsoft Graph. Nik talks about managing multiple tenants, including a single tenant, using reference configurations that help you detect and correct configuration changes. It's early days for the product, but there's a ton of power here to keep your tenant working the way you expect!LinksMicrosoft365DSCUnified Tenant ConfigurationRecorded February 13, 2026
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Sustainable AI with Darshna Shah
Mar 1800:43:29Tap to summarizeHow does artificial intelligence become more sustainable? Richard chats with Darshna Shah about her experiences as Chief AI Officer at Elastic. Darshna discusses the resources required to run large language model experiments, the pressure this has put on the electrical grid, and more. The conversation turns to efficiency - and the idea that there is little incentive in the current land grab around LLMs to be more efficient - that the focus is on growing quickly. But as technologies mature, efficiency becomes a key competitive advantage!LinksRDeepEvalAzure AI Evaluation SDKGitHub Green Software FoundationRecorded January 29, 2026
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SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward
Mar 1100:40:17Tap to summarizeSQL Server 2025 is released - what's in it, and what happens next? Richard chats with Bob Ward about the huge array of announcements coming out of Ignite around SQL Server 2025, including AI-related features, new reliability and performance options, engine improvements, and more! The tooling for SQL Server also continues to evolve, including making Copilot available through SSMS and as part of the SQL extension to Visual Studio Code. And there's more to come - have a listen!LinksSQL Server 2025SQL Server 2025 UnveiledSSMS with Erin StellatoSQL Server Management StudioJSON Data in SQL ServerManaged Identity for SQL ServerSQL Server in Microsoft FabricMirroring SQL Server in FabricNext-Generation SQL Managed InstanceMSSQL Extension for Visual Studio CodeRecorded January 5, 2026
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