This week’s topic is what certification is the best for you?  The crux of the issue is in that question.....you see, that certification, that helps you move up within your organization, that cert that helps you get the job you desire, that cert that al

This the Steve Murawski interview in it's entirety.  In the second half of the interview Steve talks about his podcasting which included the current "Ops All The Things" with his co-host Christpher Webber.  He also talks about Kevin Behr and George Spaf

Steve’s Bio: By your own admission on your website http://stevenmurawski.com, you are a sysadmin , devops, a Powershell MVP and other stuff. sysadmin by trade/Powershell by choice You are a Sysadmin on the Site Reliability Engineering team for Stack

This is the link to Microsoft’s “Windows lifecycle fact sheet”. And also the “End of Sales dates”. Windows 8.1 So the news is the update and the way Microsoft is handling the update. So let’s talk now about the update itself. What’s in thi

First, what is Heartbleed? It is a “security bug” that gives hackers the ability to decipher encrypted data (such as OpenSSL).  It has been exposing personal data such as user names, passwords, credit card payment data……basically anything that i

A few weeks back I make a big deal out of the fact that we had just earned our first download in Europe…….somebody in United Kingdom had downloaded one of our episodes.  Well, that person must have liked what they heard and talked about it.  Now thr

  We are dedicating this podcast totally to Don Jones and our discussion of PowerShell.  Don is a multi-year Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.  He has written books too numerous to mention all of them here.   The have included Windows PowerShe

As an IT Consultant am passionate about subjects like data backup, data migration, Windows servers, Active Directory and Group Policy.  I feel compelled to share my experience and knowledge with others. Whether you are a small to medium-sized business,

As you may have guessed, this is our 10th episode and we have a very special guest interview with Jeremy Moskowitz to help celebrate.  In the grand scheme of things that probably doesn’t mean much I guess but Ed and I have attached a modicum of import

Ok, it’s over.  Nothin left but the cleanup.  For the people that follow our tweet account:  The Help Desk Podcast which can be found @helpdesk54.  Anyway, those people got a play by play of our trip to the Wisconsin Dells, our getting snowed in at