Hopefully there are a few of you that still check the site or feed and will see this.

If you are reading this, then you have been wondering where the show has gone and if it will return.  Our hiatus was fueled by many distractions, but it has led me to the point I had hoped to avoid; the show is done.  I finally had the chance to speak with Steve and let him know that I am bowing out of the show altogether.  Steve is battling his own constraints, but may decide to do something with the show.  Keep an eye out for a post from him letting you know if there are any plans.

We truly apologize for disappearing (again) without an explanation.  Between our jobs and families, we can’t seem to find a way to schedule a regular recording time.  I couldn’t find the time to put together content for the show; which led to aggravation for me as I wanted to bring something of substance to the show. The reason I/we didn’t post anything was that we kept hoping to delay the inevitable and find a way to get past this.  We’ve delayed long enough and it’s time to call it done.

I am hoping to schedule a “Final Episode” with Steve and Rich and will post a recording time should anyone want to join us.

Lastly, I want to thank all of the listeners we’ve had over the years.  You have all been very supportive and encouraging.  Knowing that someone was listening and enjoyed the show makes it all worth the effort.  I will truly miss the interaction and fun we’ve had along the way together.

Thank you again.

Keith

Recorded: April 3, 2011
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:06:11

Topics/Links:

• System Center Betas
• Problems with SP1
• Verizon T1 outage

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Recorded: March 27, 2011
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski

Show Length:1:13:33

Topics/Links:

• Interview with Ed Wilson: The Microsoft Scripting Guy
  • Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
  • Follow him on Twitter @ScriptingGuys
  • 2011 Scripting Games
• Upcoming Changes to Microsoft Core CAL’s
• Making movies with YouTubeDownloader and CamStudio
• Windows 7 & 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Trials and Tribulations
• osTicket – Web-based help desk ticket management

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Recorded: March 20, 2011
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski

Show Length:1:16:25

Topics/Links:

• Interview with Tom Limoncelli, one of the authors of TPOSANA and presenter at the PICC Conference. 
  • Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • Check out his site at Everything Sysadmin
• Steve is presenting on DirectAccess
• DirectAccess & Office Communicator configuration woes
• Limiting your user account abilities

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Recorded: March 13, 2011
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski (Special Guest Appearance by Keanu Reeves)

Show Length:1:06:03

Topics/Links:

• Interview with Jesse Trucks of LOPSA and the PICC Conference
• MoR Book Club – Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)

• We discuss Chapter 7 – Networking
  • OSI Model
  • Physical/Logical Network Diagrams
  • Designing and maintaining a clean architecture
  • Terminology
  • Protocol selection and vendor interoperability
• VLAN’s as a security model – Nerd Fight between Keith and Steve – Send in your opinions on the topic to Feedback [at] MindOfRoot.com

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Steve – PICC Conference

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Recorded: March 6, 2011
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 56:01

Topics/Links:

• Remember the Default Deny rule
• iSCSI and Hyper-V Troubles
• VMWare and Windows Server 2008 R2 video problem
• DNS and Office Communication Server
• Meeting Room A/V Project
• What to do when a machine loses secure channel to DC
• Neighbors Laptop virus woes

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Keith – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14&feature=player_embedded – From DOS 5 to Windows 7 – An Upgrade story

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Recorded: February 10, 2011

Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:01:45

Topics/Links:

• PowerShell Deep Dive Conference
• CredSSP and PowerShell Remoting
• Exchange Server Cert problem
• Sharepoint Credentials Hiccup
• Migrating Sharepoint Content
• SPDeploymentWizard Tool
• WinSXS folder in Windows Vista and 7
• Discussion on PC/Laptop hardware & OS standard builds from manufacturers

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Steve – imo.im – Free web-based chat client

Keith – http://parrygripp.com/ – Funny songs for viral videos

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Recorded: February 3, 2011

Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:12:30

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club – Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We discuss Chapter 5 – Services
  • What qualifies as a service?
  • Dependencies
  • Architecting for reliability

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Steve – imo.im – Free web-based chat client

Keith – join.me – Free web-based screen sharing app from LogMeIn

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Sorry folks. Both Steve and Keith are down with the sickness. No book club show recording tonight.We will post when rescheduled.Thanks.

Recorded: January 2, 2011

Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:31:54

Topics/Links:

• MoR Book Club – Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.)
  • We discuss Chapters 4 and 6 – Servers and Data Centers
  • Designing servers for performance and reliability
  • Data Center Design – location, security, racks, wiring, tools, HVAC
• Killing IPv6 in your LAN environment

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